Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Believe it or not, Betamax is still relevant to our lives It’s been a while since anyone has used, thought about or cared about ...

While VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray were the dominant physical video formats of their eras, other lesser-known, experimental formats ...

It’s time to stock up on Betamax tapes. Sony announced this week that it will stop selling the media for its decades-old video recording technology in March, The Verge reports, citing a ...

“There was an astronaut walking on the moon, and we were watching it on TV.” “I didn’t see it.” “Oh, you’re kidding me!” So goes the conversation between two men in The Flying Clouds, a promotional ...

Sony announced this week that it will stop selling Betamax cassettes from March 2016. It was a format that appeared not to succeed as Sony had desired. Betamax was introduced by Sony on April 16, 1975 ...

The Betamax machine launched the video-store era, even though the recording format was quickly overwhelmed by rival JVC's VHS format. (Oregonian) Sony's "time-shift machine" was revolutionary. For the ...

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 ...

Friday night at 9, millions of Americans will sit in front of their televisions and watch the tropical police drama “Hawaii Five-0” on their local CBS station. And over the next week, roughly 3 ...

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 ...

Sony announced Tuesday that it will stop shipping Betamax tapes, which ushered in both the era of commercial videocassettes and the age of tech-product wars as consumers largely embraced the rival VHS ...

In the spring of 1978, the program guide published by a Los Angeles public television station contained more than just schedules; it told viewers when they could watch its programs—and what they were ...

Betamax video recorders are finally being phased out almost 20 years after losing the battle for dominance of the home video market to VHS. Betamax's manufacturer, Sony, has announced that it will ...