If you’re old enough to remember or have seen the vintage advertisements, then Betamax was a videotape format created by Sony that enabled people to record their favorite programs and rent ...

1977: The VHS videocassette format is introduced in North America at a press conference before the Consumer Electronics Show starts in Chicago. Long before the battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, there ...

Most people who grew up in the 1980s remember the giddiness that came with getting the family's first video player. The technology was revolutionary for its time, allowing owners to record on ...

Remember a few years ago when Blu-ray battled HD-DVD in the high-def DVD format war? Sony and Blu-ray ultimately won out, but there was a time when the electronics giant wasn’t as successful in ...

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 ...

We hate format wars. Not because we're afraid of good old-fashioned tech fisticuffs, but because they're often completely unjust. So often, the format that wins isn't technically better than the ...

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 ...