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 last week that it would stop making the last ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While numerous streaming services make moving image entertainment available anytime and anywhere thanks to smartphones today, the media industry was quite different in the 1970s. In addition to radio ...

The Betamax machine launched the video-store era, even though the recording format was quickly overwhelmed by rival JVC's VHS format. (Oregonian) Sony's "time-shift machine" was revolutionary. For the ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES--A federal judge on Monday ordered a trio of popular file-swapping services to stand trial on copyright infringement charges, ending a bid to bring a quick end to their legal troubles with ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. TOKYO—Sony is ending end the shipment of Beta video cassette and micro cassette MV tape in March, ...