I still have some home movies on MicroMV, recorded circa 2003. Haven't had anything capable of actually playing them since, oh, 2004. Ah, the joys of evolving formats. As for the demise of Betamax ...
Yesterday, Sony announced that it would cease manufacturing Betamax tapes and close the last remaining factories in March 2016. The news came as a shock to the technology world, mostly because ...
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 ...
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, ...
Sony announced this week that it will stop selling Betamax cassettes from March 2016. It was a format that appeared not to succeed as Sony had desired. Betamax was introduced by Sony on April 16, 1975 ...
[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=30099745#p30099745:exp575rn said: fuzzyfuzzyfungus[/url]":exp575rn]The 'haha, suckers, you can only 'load' a ...