Why no built-in TBC in 1980+ VCRs?

[DVtyro]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Digital freeze frame would imply there is a TBC.

In this case why would they advertise every other digital feature, but not TBC? It smells like a conspiracy to me Like when the Japanese and, later, Koreans agreed among themselves not to sell dual-cassette machines in the U.S. and not to produce such machines for other brands. They barely won in RIAA vs Betamax case, so I suppose they did not want to advertise a feature that would have improved the quality of copied tapes.