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 ...

Sony has placed the final nail in the Betamax coffin four decades after it launched the format. The electronics giant said it would no longer produce the cassettes in Japan, which is the last country ...

The 2000s saw their own format war with HD DVD and Blu-ray squaring off and HD DVD dying an early death despite avid supporters of the tech. The same thing happened in the 80s during the infancy of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sony has announced that it will stop selling Betamax tapes in March 2016 – over forty years after the ill-fated video format was first ...

Father Time has claimed another victim as Sony recently revealed plans to cease production of Betamax cassette tapes next year. For most, the news here isn't that Sony is pulling the plug on Betamax ...

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 ...

You're showing your age if you remember Betamax tapes, the age-old cassette format that was trounced by VHS almost three decades ago. Many assumed the archaic format was long dead, but its official ...

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 ...

In November 2015, Sony finally announced that it would stop selling Betamax video cassettes. By this time, its battle for dominance with the rival VHS format from rival JVC was already lost. The story ...

While many people remember recording with VHS, Sony’s Betamax video recorder, which debuted before VHS, has less of an imprint on the public’s pop culture memory. Betamax had a higher resolution than ...