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 ...

When Sony’s Betamax video recorder made its U.S. debut in 1975, it was a cutting-edge technology that brought amazing change ...

It’s a little silly to lament the demise of a technology that has been well-demised for years. But last week’s announcement that production will cease within days at the last Japanese factory ...

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The VCR is officially going the way of the Betamax and LaserDisc: . Funai Electric, a Japanese electronics company that may be the last VCR-maker in the world, announced that it will shut down its VCR ...

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.

Replay: The 1980's were a hotbed of format wars. How did we survive? And more importantly, did a company really try and sell us a video tape that you could turn over? Phil Rhodes starts a two part ...

Yesterday, Sony announced that it would cease manufacturing Betamax tapes and close the last remaining factories in March 2016. The news came as a shock to the technology world, mostly because ...

This video examines the lessons from Betamax through a reaction format, focusing on engineering perspectives and the quality of content research. It incorporates insights from various academic papers ...