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 ...

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 ...

After 40 years, Sony is waving the white flag on Betamax. The technology giant announced on Tuesday that next March they will discontinue the video cassette format that lost the home video battle with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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