Last remaining VHS VCR producer will cease manufacturing recorders at the end of this month, bringing the 40-year-long analogue videotape era to an end The 40-year-war between Betamax and VHS is ...

Sony announces end of production of Betamax cassettes for March next year, 40 years after its introduction and 28 years after losing format war to VHS Sony has announced that in March next year it ...

If you were a child of the 80s, you might remember the epic battle between Sony’s Betamax and JVC’s VHS for the king of the home video market. Much like HD DVD versus the Blu-Ray of not so long ago, ...

Betamax video recorders are finally being phased out almost 20 years after losing the battle for dominance of the home video market to VHS. Betamax's manufacturer, Sony, has announced that it will ...

A plan provider once asked me if I had written a comprehensive article on why trustee-directed 401(k) plans are superior to participant-directed plans. Although I believe in this argument, I haven’t ...

Remember a few years ago when Blu-ray battled HD-DVD in the high-def DVD format war? Sony and Blu-ray ultimately won out, but there was a time when the electronics giant wasn’t as successful in ...

Sony announced this week that it will stop selling Betamax cassettes from March 2016. It was a format that appeared not to succeed as Sony had desired. Betamax was introduced by Sony on April 16, 1975 ...

Bitcoin could be pushed out by other cryptocurrencies, similar to how analogue video format Betamax was squashed by rival VHS, according to tech investor Glenn Hutchins. "Bitcoin could turn out to be ...

“There was an astronaut walking on the moon, and we were watching it on TV.” “I didn’t see it.” “Oh, you’re kidding me!” So goes the conversation between two men in The Flying Clouds, a promotional ...

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 ...

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