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 ...

The advent of television in the American home in the late 1940s and its dramatic adoption throughout the 1950s offered a whole new entertainment portal for Americans, who had grown accustomed to radio ...

It’s a little silly to lament the demise of a technology that has been well-demised for years. But last week’s announcement that production will cease within days at the last Japanese factory ...

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 viewSony was ...

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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 ...

Reporter: You might have heard. Betamax finally bit the dust. Reader: Betamax, the video format? You must be kidding? I thought Betamax packed it in eons ago, along with Rubik’s Cube and Billy Idol.

The video store, as it is nostalgically remembered, looks like a record shop, or a hookah parlor. Staffed by scruffy burners or neo-hippies who “really know their stuff,” splayed with shelves at all ...

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Bitcoin could be pushed out by other cryptocurrencies, similar to how analogue video format Betamax was squashed by rival VHS, according to tech investor Glenn Hutchins. "Bitcoin could turn out to be ...