Beta always was better than VHS. Even with all the advancement over the years,
Beta stepped ahead. When SVHS used metal tape and upped the video carrier to 7
Mhz, Sony upped theirs to 8.6. An ED Beta recording is indiscernable from the
original in NTSC, no matter how good a reciever you use, with digital comb,
wide I demod and allt that ****, you are very unlikely to percieve it, unless
you know how to look for the effects of the comb filter. Even then it isn't
all that easy.

My God. Somebody else who understands non-equal-bandwidth color encoding.

I wanted an ED Beta machine. Good thing I couldn't afford it.