Sony has announced that it would stop making Betamax tape, 13 years after it killed the Betamax player. It may have lost the video format wars, but Sony's Betamax was critical to the modern era ...

You think you enjoyed Blu-ray vs HD DVD? Memory Stick vs SD? Pshaw! You haven’t seen a format war until you’ve witnessed the betrayal and bloodbath that was Betamax vs VHS. Click to view Sony ...

The marketing hook for the Betamax player was “watch whatever whenever.” This was as mind-blowing for me as would be my later encounters with the Sony Walkman and, of course, the Internet.

What VHS couldn't do, digital did. Sony's Betamax video tape recorder, which famously lost the 1980s video format war but held on for decades as a niche product, will finally be laid to rest after ...

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.

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.

Sony is finally discontinuing the virtually obsolete Betamax analog video cassettes, as well as the MicroMV camcorder cassettes. Sony will pull the plug on these in March 2016.

Betamax machines crammed more information onto videotape than the initial VHS models, enabling them to record more detailed pictures.

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.

QUESTION: I have an old Sony Betamax videocassette recorder that is broken. I realize it would be easier to buy a new VCR that plays VHS tapes, but I have a lot of Beta-format tapes that I’d ...

The longer recording capacity of VHS – short for video home system – and the less expensive cost of its tape players compared with Betamax have been cited as reasons for the decline of Sony's ...

Sony hasn't built new Betamax players since 2002, and while the hardware had a reputation for being more durable than its VHS counterpart, Betamax hasn't been a viable standard for nearly 30 years.