Back in 1975, Sony introduced Betamax, an analogue video format meant to serve as an alternative viewing experience to JVC’s video home system (VHS). Since that day, Sony has waged battle with JVC to ...

Like a grieving widow who finally parts with her late husband’s golf clubs, Sony Corp. has given up on Betamax. The Japanese electronics giant announced Tuesday that it would stop making the last two ...

It might be a surprise to many, but Sony has finally killed off its analogue video format Betamax after a thirty year tussle with rival VHS (Video Home System). You'd be forgiven for thinking that it ...

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 ...

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 ...

The relentless march of technological development means once cutting edge inventions are continually being relegated to the scrapheap, or at least the musty bottom drawer. From what might have been to ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have this love/hate relationship with format wars. No, it’s not reality television versus talk shows, or Top 40 radio against “the best of the ’80s—and more!” The wars I’m thinking about pit ...