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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well, in case you hadn’t been able to decide between VHS and Betamax for the last 40 years, the decision has now officially been made for you. Sony announced this week it will stop producing Betamax ...

This week, Sony announced it will cease the manufacturing of Betamax video cassette tapes in Japan — the last country where they are available — by March 2016. To which the response was: wait, Betamax ...

You're showing your age if you remember Betamax tapes, the age-old cassette format that was trounced by VHS almost three decades ago. Many assumed the archaic format was long dead, but its official ...

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