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 ...

Friday night at 9, millions of Americans will sit in front of their televisions and watch the tropical police drama “Hawaii Five-0” on their local CBS station. And over the next week, roughly 3 ...

WASHINGTON — Long before Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV and Amazon Prime, and long before DVD players (do you still have one?), there was videotape. The first consumer version of videotape hit the market 50 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the spring of 1978, the program guide published by a Los Angeles public television station contained more than just schedules; it told viewers when they could watch its programs—and what they were ...