It was just a matter of time. Slowly, year by year, owners of Sony’s Betamax videocassette recorders have watched as pre-recorded cassettes became increasingly difficult to find. Some, frustrated by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marketing mistakes can eclipse many technological triumphs. Sometimes the last of a dying breed ranks superior to its replacement. So it is with Sony`s SL-HF900 Beta videocassette recorder. It doesn`t ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. ALEXANDRIA, VA.—Like many consumer products, the home videocassette recorder has shrunk a lot ...

Sometimes a seemingly minor decision, made on the spur of the moment by millions of Americans far back in time, returns to haunt those millions and change their lives forever. You remember — back in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Sony chief executive Kazuo Hirai reminisced about Betamax at a speech in 2014 Sony has announced that it will stop selling Betamax video cassettes in March 2016. The firm revealed on its website that ...

Sony Electronics debuted its next-generation multi-function DVDirect™ DVD recorder which can quickly transfer high-definition home videos and digital photos to DVD discs without using a computer. The ...

The iconic video-cassette recorder (VCR) is joining camera film, eight-track tapes and floppy disks on the ever-growing scrapheap of extinct technology. Japan's Funai Electric, the world's last ...