Melding a little of the new with a little of the old, Sony has recently released a Blu-Ray Betamax combo device so one can still enjoy his Beta library as well as his ever growing HD Blu-Ray DVD ...
Old video formats like Betamax hold lots of memories but are hard to watch today because the players are rare and outdated. A Betamax converter is a device that helps transfer or play Betamax tapes on ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
As the controversy over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks goes before the U.S. Supreme Court, the recording and film industries are enlisting celebrities to help make the case that network operators should ...
Robert Siegel speaks with Jon Healey, a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, about Sony's decision to cease production of Betamax. Sony announced yesterday that it would stop making the Betamax ...
On the back of the Betamax there's this one yellow RCA-type plug that says Video Out. So the connection now is Betamax (video only)-to-MiniDV-to-PC. Yes, some progress! I do get picture! But my ...