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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9148089" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Mostly, the ones that show 4e wasn't even remotely a financial failure (as is so often alleged), but rather that it merely "failed" by not being the stupendously successful edition Wizards sold to their corporate overlords. All while, y'know, being in the middle of the worst recession since the Great Depression, having a closure of one of the biggest bookstores in the country, a murder-suicide on the digital tools team, etc.No. By the time I was more than a twinkle in my parents' eyes, it was already a dead format.Doesn't really answer the question though. How can you have "better" without quality? VHS had several legitimate quality benefits. Yes, if we consider exclusively image quality and absolutely nothing else, early Betamax was superior to early VHS. However, the technological differences did not last all that long as the two tried to compete with each other, meaning that the usage of the medium--which is also a quality!--mattered a great deal.And on that front, beta was dramatically worse. Proprietary and expensive tools. One of the important measures of quality in any visual medium--this applies to computer hardware as well, for example--is price per performance. You can get a state-of-the-art, unbeatable video card...usually for multiple thousands of dollars. Or you can do like I did, aim for the just-above-midrange, and wait for something to come on sale or come up refurbished (I did the latter with my current card, and have been nothing but pleased with it). Price to performance ratio is an extremely important indicator of quality--and VHS had Beta completely beat on that front, even as it slowly worked to improve the performance as well. Per Wikipedia:All of these are quality concerns which are not the same as visual fidelity concerns.So: How can something be better, without any quality difference?</blockquote>

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