Sony signals the end of an era of glorious failure Sony has finally written the epitaph for the Betamax video casette recorder, many years after the hugely more successful VHS format pushed the ...

1977: The VHS videocassette format is introduced in North America at a press conference before the Consumer Electronics Show starts in Chicago. Long before the battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, there ...

The VCR is officially going the way of the Betamax and LaserDisc: into the technology graveyard. Funai Electric, a Japanese electronics company that may be the last VCR-maker in the world, announced ...

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Reporter: You might have heard. Betamax finally bit the dust. Reader: Betamax, the video format? You must be kidding? I thought Betamax packed it in eons ago, along with Rubik’s Cube and Billy Idol.

If you’re old enough to remember or have seen the vintage advertisements, then Betamax was a videotape format created by Sony that enabled people to record their favorite programs and rent ...

When Sony’s Betamax video recorder made its U.S. debut in 1975, it was a cutting-edge technology that brought amazing change to American households. People who got a Betamax machine no longer needed ...

VHS and Betamax were two rival consumer-level, analog video-recording tape standards for those who now only know about DVDs and streaming video. They both did the same thing and VHS eventually won out ...

Read this, and the next time someone tells you that, of course, Betamax was superior to VHS, you can tell them that they are wrong. It's an urban myth. This is not news: the information has always ...

Sony has placed the final nail in the Betamax coffin four decades after it launched the format. The electronics giant said it would no longer produce the cassettes in Japan, which is the last country ...