Cependant, il y avait des technologies concurrentielles, soit le Beta, système supérieur du point de vue de la technologie, et le VHS, système inférieur du point de vue technologique, mais disponible plus rapidement et moins coûteux.
However, there were competing technologies between Beta, which was technologically a superior system on the one hand, and VHS which made a technologically inferior system on the other hand but was available faster and cheaper.