In the mid-1970s, Sony Corporation began marketing a home video recording system known as "Betamax." The system ultimately enabled households both to play pre-recorded films and other programs on ...

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 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 ...

With news that Sony will cease production of Betamax tape, Phil Rhodes take a retrospective look at Betamax and tape in general. It's been quite widely reported recently that Sony is soon to stop ...

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 ...

Betamax tapes (remember those?) are finally going away. Sony will no longer produce them as of March 2016. The manufacturer was still producing Betamax tapes for the Japanese market, despite ...

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 ...