Your comment implies the old trop that Beta was much better quality than VHS, but Betamax's reputation for better quality was marketing spin and conflation with Betacam, Sony's pro version.

In reality, Betamax was nearly indistinguishable from VHS.

Obviously it’s been quite a long time, but as someone whose first VCR was beta, this rings true. If nothing else, I definitely don’t remember a noticeable quality difference when we later switched to VHS.