The death of Sony 's long-standing Betamax format was confirmed today as the Japanese company announced in a statement it would cease production next year. The Betamax format went head-to-head with ...

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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 ...

I still have some home movies on MicroMV, recorded circa 2003. Haven't had anything capable of actually playing them since, oh, 2004. Ah, the joys of evolving formats. As for the demise of Betamax ...

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 ...

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 has announced that it will stop selling Betamax tapes in March 2016 – over forty years after the ill-fated video format was first launched and 13 years after the company last made a player. "Sony ...

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 ...

It's official. Sony is finally killing off the virtually obsolete Betamax analog video cassettes. Introduced in 1975 by Sony in Japan, the first-ever Betamax to make its way to the U.S. market was the ...

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 ...

After more than forty years, Sony has revealed it will cease production of Betamax tapes in 2016 - but this other tech is still going strong Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by ...