It was just a matter of time. Slowly, year by year, owners of Sony’s Betamax videocassette recorders have watched as pre-recorded cassettes became increasingly difficult to find. Some, frustrated by ...

Like a grieving widow who finally parts with her late husband’s golf clubs, Sony Corp. has given up on Betamax. The Japanese electronics giant announced Tuesday that it would stop making the last two ...

Marketing mistakes can eclipse many technological triumphs. Sometimes the last of a dying breed ranks superior to its replacement. So it is with Sony`s SL-HF900 Beta videocassette recorder. It doesn`t ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. ALEXANDRIA, VA.—Like many consumer products, the home videocassette recorder has shrunk a lot ...

Sometimes a seemingly minor decision, made on the spur of the moment by millions of Americans far back in time, returns to haunt those millions and change their lives forever. You remember — back in ...

Sometimes history works this way. A seemingly minor decision-a decision made on the spur of the moment by millions of Americans far back in time (the early 1980s)-returns to haunt those millions of ...

Funai Electric, a Japanese consumer electronics company, will end production of VHS videocassette recorders (VCRs) at the end of July, according to Japanese newspaper Nikkei. This will also mark the ...

In a move that marks the beginning of the end for a hugely successful chapter in technology history, Britain's biggest high street electronics retailer Dixons has announced that it's taking VCRs off ...

Consumer electronics chain store Dixons is to stop selling video recorders because of the rise in popularity of DVD technology. The store, which has sold VCRs for 26 years, said that DVD sales had ...

Sony chief executive Kazuo Hirai reminisced about Betamax at a speech in 2014 Sony has announced that it will stop selling Betamax video cassettes in March 2016. The firm revealed on its website that ...

Sony Electronics debuted its next-generation multi-function DVDirect™ DVD recorder which can quickly transfer high-definition home videos and digital photos to DVD discs without using a computer. The ...