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, ...

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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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Sony will stop selling Betamax tapes in March 2016, 14 years after the last Betamax recorders were produced Wikicommons / SuperArticleGuy I bet you didn't know that Betamax was still on sale, did you?

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 ...

A high-tech DVD format battle for the hearts, minds and wallets of consumers is shaping up to be a 21st century version of the 1980s VHS/Betamax brawl. Sometime around 2006, a new generation of DVD ...

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