alt Hacker NewsThe first VHS sucked when compared to Beta video
And it never got better, the superior technology lost, and the war was won through content deals.
Lesson: Technology improvements aren't guaranteed.
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XorNot • today at 1:07 AM
Beta was not the superior technology, and it lost for very good reasons.
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Your analogy makes no sense. VHS spawned the entire home market, which went through multiple quality upgrades well above beta. It would only make sense if in 2025 we were using vhs everywhere and that the current state of the art for LLMs is all there ever is.