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 ...

“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 ...

The better product lost, and the reason says everything about American consumers.

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 ...

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 ...

Sony Corp.’s Betamax videorecorder long ago vanished from store shelves, but its spirit lives on in Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod. And TiVo Inc.’s personal videorecorder. And Archos’ portable video ...

While many people remember recording with VHS, Sony’s Betamax video recorder, which debuted before VHS, has less of an imprint on the public’s pop culture memory. Betamax had a higher resolution than ...

Last remaining VHS VCR producer will cease manufacturing recorders at the end of this month, bringing the 40-year-long analogue videotape era to an end The 40-year-war between Betamax and VHS is ...

1975: Sony introduces the Betamax video recorder. Revolutionary for its day, the Betamax format was on its way to becoming the industry standard until the appearance of JVC's VHS a year later. Betamax ...

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 ...