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 ...
It’s one of the longest-running ‘format wars’ in history – but Sony has finally called it a day for its Betamax video tape format. The last Betamax tape will roll off the production line in March 2016 ...
Bad news Betamax lovers. The 40-year-old video cassette tapes are about to die. Sony broke the news on its website Tuesday, saying it would stop making the tapes as of March 2016. The cassette tapes ...
Sony to stop making Betamax tapes: Here's more retro tech you didn't realise is still being produced
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 ...
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 ...
Betamax tapes (remember those?) are finally going away. Sony will no longer produce them as of March 2016. The manufacturer was still producing Betamax tapes for the Japanese market, despite ...
When Trevor von Stein first heard the story of a woman named Marion Stokes who spent decades recording television news, tape-by-tape, in her home, something resonated with him. “I just sort of tingled ...
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 ...
Sony will stop producing Betamax video cassette tapes in March 2016, the conglomerate said in a statement on its website Tuesday. The company introduced the Betamax format in 1975, a year before rival ...
Sony to stop making Betamax tapes: Here's more retro tech you didn't realise is still being produced
After more than forty years, Sony has revealed it will cease production of Betamax tapes in 2016 - but this other tech is still going strong Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by ...
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 ...
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