Three companies compited to establish market domination. The company that developed VHS (I guess it was Panasonic) offered licences to anyone who wanted to develop a VCR using their technology. The other two companies, Sony (=Betamax) and Philips (=Video 2000) kept their technology for themselves. Very fast VHS had a huge critical mass and became the industry standard, eliminating the other two technologies.
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