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Actually BetaMax is a superior standard, TV stations used it... but, it was A LOT more expensive. Sony thought that just being superior was gonna win over the standards war.
Actually no.
The professional format is Betacam, and incompatible with Betamax.
Betamax can be superior to VHS, but that’s easy if you just waste a lot of tape. If you put the formats on equal footing the difference is negligible: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_oJs8-I9WtA
Being theoretically better from a purely technical perspective doesn’t make something „superior“. VHS took over because the whole package was superior.