Long Live BETA!!! My family still has a single BETA machine hooked up for watching movies from our over 100 tapes, and you'd be surprised what gems we've found:
1. Did you know the DVD and TCM versions of the movie Murder By Death aren't the complete movie??
I do, because many years ago, my parents taped a local TV station playing of the movie.
In one missing scene, Willy, Sydney Wang's son, finds a note in the dead Lionel Twain's hand. He chastises the other detectives for not seeing it there. When he finally opens it up, its a grocery list.
My dad, probably at this very moment, is at home with a Super BETA Hi-Fi he borrowed from where he works, transferring our collection of Twilight Zone episodes to DVD using our new Toshiba DVD/DVR recorder.