Sony has announced that it will no longer be selling Beta cassettes. No, this is not a news report from the 80s: despite losing the format war with the VHS decades ago, Sony has been quietly churning ...

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 ...

Sony Corp. said this week it would stop manufacturing Betamax tapes, 40 years after the video format made its debut and about 30 since it was decisively overtaken by rival format VHS. According to the ...

Many readers are old enough to recall when catching a movie at home meant waiting for it to show up on network television. Miss an airing and you had to wait until it was scheduled again. Same with TV ...

TOKYO -- Sony closed the final chapter of its legendary battle with Victor Co. of Japan to dominate the home video machine market, when it announced it would discontinue its Betamax VCRs. Sony will ...

On May 10, 1975, Sony took out full-page ads in a bunch of newspapers to proudly announce the arrival of a new product, “The Next Thing”: Betamax. At the time of launch, Betamax was the first home ...

Even powerhouse Microsoft didn’t end up making the right call on the HD disk format wars between HD-DVD and Sony Blu-ray. Sony Blu-ray is now the undisputed winner in this war which Sony apparently ...

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