In 1975, Sony introduced Betamax, a revolutionary concept into the home entertainment market. Betamax was the first consumer-friendly, simple and affordable technology that allowed consumers to record ...

Sony will also take MicroMV camcorder cassettes, the smallest videotape format, off the shelves at that time. The failed Betamax format, introduced in 1975, was meant to go toe-to-toe with the VHS, ...

Toshiba officially dropped its plans for HD DVD Tuesday after Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Netflix and a parade of others abandoned the high-definition video format for Sony's Blu-ray. The statement indicates ...

Sony signals the end of an era of glorious failure Sony has finally written the epitaph for the Betamax video casette recorder, many years after the hugely more successful VHS format pushed the ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Sony announced Tuesday the impending death of Betamax, set for March 2016. Akin to the Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD battle of the 2000s, the Betamax format lost the 1970-80s video ...

As competition in person-to-person payments heats with news of Apple’s own money transfer service, the intensifying P-to-P battle calls to mind a much earlier tale of competing technologies. Remember ...