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 ...

While numerous streaming services make moving image entertainment available anytime and anywhere thanks to smartphones today, the media industry was quite different in the 1970s. In addition to radio ...

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 ...

Manufacturing on the painfully-slow-to-rewind machines will conclude at the end of the month, according to Japanese website Nikkei. Funai Electric, the only remaining manufacturer of VCRs, has been ...

The iconic video-cassette recorder (VCR) is joining camera film, eight-track tapes and floppy disks on the ever-growing scrapheap of extinct technology. Japan's Funai Electric, the world's last ...

Panasonic has stopped making VHS recorders for the domestic market, will only make some machines for export When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

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 ...