The first consumer-oriented PCM format used consumer video tape formats ( Beta and VHS ) as the storage medium.

Beta was the name of a domestic videotape format developed by Japan's Sony Corporation in the 1970s and 1980s.

Betamax ( also called Beta, and referred to as such in the logo ) is a consumer-level analog videocassette magnetic tape recording format developed by Sony, released in Japan on May 10, 1975.

Sony also offered a range of industrial Betamax products, a Beta I-only format for industrial and institutional users.

* The Betamax format in the UK, including technical information on servicing Sanyo Beta machines

The last-minute adoption of the hybrid DVD format was agreed to by all three companies in an effort to avoid a damaging format war, similar to that between Beta and VHS in the 1970s and 1980s.

This would have offered the format another advantage over VHS / Beta as the hifi track would be independent of the visuals, and so could be re-recorded or dubbed as became possible later with Video8.

However, Betacam SP tapes can be used without a problem in ED Beta VCRs, since the ED Beta format uses metal-formulated tape as well.

The Beta – VHS format war soon began, while the other competitors quickly disappeared.

In 1988, Sony began to market its own VHS machines, and despite claims that it was still backing Beta, it was clear that the format was no longer viable in most parts of the world.

In 1939, a former student of Butler's, Rolfe Humphries, published in the pages of Poetry an effort titled " Draft Ode for a Phi Beta Kappa Occasion ") that followed a classical format of blank verse with one classical reference per line.

Later, with the advent of the home video market, the Disney company chose to make Alice in Wonderland one of the first titles available for the rental market on VHS and Beta and for retail sale on RCA's short-lived CED Videodisc format.

Sony had demonstrated a prototype videotape recording system they called " Beta " to the other electronics manufacturers in 1974, and expected that they would back a single format for the good of all.

The machines were also found to be less reliable than their VHS and Beta counterparts and for all these reasons the format never gained substantial market share.

Beta sales dwindled away and VHS emerged as the winner of the format war.

In 1988, Sony began to market their own VHS machines, and, despite claims that they were still backing Beta, it was clear that the format was dead-at least in Europe and North America.

New news vehicles were purchased, a new tape format ( Beta SP ) was introduced to digitize all media, a new radar receiver and new weather cameras were added across the state, and a new set was built, coinciding with WZZM's introduction of a new logo.

A Gold Demo was released later, and because the file format changed, two new scenarios were included on it that were not compatible with the earlier Beta version.

KDMG, owned by Beta Broadcasting, had a " gold " format until 1989 and then followed various " classic oldies " formats until late-1990.

Mrs. Sandburg received a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Chicago and she was busy writing and teaching when she met Sandburg.

Fosdick, a brother of minister Harry Emerson Fosdick, was a graduate of Princeton, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association.

He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan ( 1905 ).

He is an alumnus of Georgetown University where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Kappa Psi and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford.

While in college, he became a brother of Alpha Phi Omega and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

# ICQ for Mac ( Beta )— Released in February 2010, a version of the client that was developed using the Adobe AIR platform, making it usable on additional operating systems which support the AIR runtime, such as Linux.

He entered Harvard College and was graduated in 1787 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Phi Beta Kappa.

with highest honors, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity.

The first successful colony was Beta.

He graduated magna cum laude in 1950, and was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

He enrolled his daughter, Frances, at SU, where she was initiated in the newly formed Gamma Phi Beta sorority.

The much reduced constellation lost several brighter stars to neighbouring constellations: Beta Telescopii became Eta Sagittarii, which it had been before Lacaille placed it in Telescopium, Gamma was placed in Scorpio and renamed G Scorpii by Benjamin Gould, Theta Telescopii reverted to its old appellation of d Ophiuchi, and Sigma Telescopii was placed in Corona Australis.

He received his MA degree the next year, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

Marshall was elected to Phi Beta Kappa during his final year at college.

The Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity was installed in 2010 and the Kappa Beta Gamma sorority installed in 2011.

At Yale, he was a member of the Linonian Society, a literary and debating society ; Skull and Bones, the secret society co-founded by his father in 1832 ; and the Beta chapter of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.

Beta 1 of NT 5. 0 was released in September 1997, followed by Beta 2 in August 1998.

Windows 2000 Beta 3 was released in January 1999.

NT 5. 0 Beta 1 was similar to NT 4. 0, including a very similar themed logo.

While there, he was a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma social fraternity, and the Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Gamma Tau engineering honor societies.

A MMOFPS based on the series, Soldier of Fortune Online was published in Korea by Dragonfly and went in Closed Beta on August 12, 2010 and ended on August 16, 2010.

The College was awarded a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's premier undergraduate honor society, in 1971.