It’s been a while since anyone has used, thought about or cared about Betamax, the video cassette technology that lost out to VHS back in the 1980s. TorrentFreak points out, however, that Betamax is ...

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 ...

Remember video tapes? Those things with the spools that used to hold copies of home videos and, even more popularly, our favorite movies for home viewing. The little black rectangles we used to leave ...

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 ...

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 president and CEO Kazuo Hirai speaks at the Consumer Electronics Show with ... a Betamax player behind him. The company introduced the technology in 1975, stopped manufacturing players in 2002 ...

TOKYO, Nov. 10 (UPI) --Sony announced it will cease sales of Betamax video cassettes by March 2016. The format, launched in 1975, lost a format war to competitor JVC's VHS format. VHS eventually ...

Sony launched their Betamax video recorders 40 years ago back in 1975. The company stopped selling their recorders back in 2002, although you can still buy the cassettes in Japan. Now, Sony has ...

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 ...