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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=30099745#p30099745:exp575rn said: fuzzyfuzzyfungus[/url]":exp575rn]The 'haha, suckers, you can only 'load' a ...