Hey now folks! So then, as many of us who were there in (relatively) ancient tech times (and I'm talkin' way, way back here - the Decade of the '80s, to be precise!) will recall, we had the Beta and VHS formats competing in the VCR marketplace -

Seems that, among other thing instrumental to giving VHS an edge, there was one thing in particular that put it over the competition...

What WAS THAT one thing, you ask? Take a guess before watching the following History Channel clip to get the answer - (Hint: these days, it's a multi-billion dollar industry some would say has become virtually synonymous with the Internet!)