Tech lovers continue to tout the superior resolution of Sony’s Betamax—even though it became obsolete after VHS overtook it ...

Like a grieving widow who finally parts with her late husband’s golf clubs, Sony Corp. has given up on Betamax. The Japanese electronics giant announced Tuesday that it would stop making the last two ...

While numerous streaming services make moving image entertainment available anytime and anywhere thanks to smartphones today, the media industry was quite different in the 1970s. In addition to radio ...

Like a grieving widow who finally parts with her late husband’s golf clubs, Sony Corp. has given up on Betamax. The Japanese electronics giant announced last week that it would stop making the last ...

If you were a child of the 80s, you might remember the epic battle between Sony’s Betamax and JVC’s VHS for the king of the home video market. Much like HD DVD versus the Blu-Ray of not so long ago, ...

Sony will stop selling Betamax tapes in March 2016, 14 years after the last Betamax recorders were produced Wikicommons / SuperArticleGuy I bet you didn't know that Betamax was still on sale, did you?

What VHS couldn't do, digital did. Sony's Betamax video tape recorder, which famously lost the 1980s video format war but held on for decades as a niche product, will finally be laid to rest after ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This front-loading Betamax video ...

Funai Electric, a Japanese consumer electronics company, will end production of VHS videocassette recorders (VCRs) at the end of July, according to Japanese newspaper Nikkei. This will also mark the ...

In a move that marks the beginning of the end for a hugely successful chapter in technology history, Britain's biggest high street electronics retailer Dixons has announced that it's taking VCRs off ...

Sony is to stop selling Betamax video cassettes in March 2016, it has announced. New tapes have been available only in Japan for several years - even though the company discontinued Betamax video ...