Tech lovers continue to tout the superior resolution of Sony’s Betamax—even though it became obsolete after VHS overtook it ...

Sony Corp. President and CEO Kazuo Hirai delivers a keynote address in front of an image of a Sony Betamax at the 2014 International CES at The Venetian Las Vegas on January 7, 2014 in Las Vegas, ...

In November 2015, Sony finally announced that it would stop selling Betamax video cassettes. By this time, its battle for dominance with the rival VHS format from rival JVC was already lost. The story ...

Remember a few years ago when Blu-ray battled HD-DVD in the high-def DVD format war? Sony and Blu-ray ultimately won out, but there was a time when the electronics giant wasn’t as successful in ...

OUR LIVING ROOMS (WHTM) — It was the first home video recording technology to hit the market. A bad guess about how it would be used allowed other systems to supplant it, but it would find use in the ...

Father Time has claimed another victim as Sony recently revealed plans to cease production of Betamax cassette tapes next year. For most, the news here isn't that Sony is pulling the plug on Betamax ...

Sony chief executive Kazuo Hirai reminisced about Betamax at a speech in 2014 Sony has announced that it will stop selling Betamax video cassettes in March 2016. The firm revealed on its website that ...

The advent of television in the American home in the late 1940s and its dramatic adoption throughout the 1950s offered a whole new entertainment portal for Americans, who had grown accustomed to radio ...

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Why keep it simple when you can complicate it? A new video app for the iPhone follows this premise. Cassette from independent New Zealand developer Devin Davies is a “home video player” that sorts the ...