Betamax is used in some professional handheld videocameras. Although many of them have switched over to digital within the last few years. Back, say, 3 or so years, all news cameramen used Beta. Better quality than VHS any day of the week. Just a slave to poor marketing and few little recording time on the tapes. That's why it's perfect for news... high quality and short tapes. Doesn't take much tape space to shoot some news report and some B roll. And the tapes are a helluva lot smaller so cameramen can carry them in vest pockets without weighing themselves down too much or taking too much physical space on their person.