The original Sony Betamax video recorder for the NTSC television system could record for only sixty minutes. Meanwhile, JVC’s VHS could manage a hundred twenty minutes, ...

The company made its last Betamax video recorder in 2002. Betamax was cutting edge in 1975 -- long before streaming, Blu-ray or DVD came onto the scene.

Sony launched their Betamax video recorders 40 years ago back in 1975, the company stopped selling their recorders back in 2002, although you can still buy the cassettes in Japan. Skip to main content ...

Betamax, the video tape format that for decades held on as a niche product, is finally being laid to rest. DVD kills the video star. ... Sony's Betamax video tape recorder, ...

Sony announced last year that it would stop selling Betamax video cassettes, a rival to the VHS, after stopping production of its recorders in 2002. Beta-format VCRs were required to play or ...

Betamax sales hit their peak in 1984, when 2.3 million recorders were sold, the Associated Press reported. But its rivals already were dominating the market, and by 1988 Sony effectively conceded ...

Betamax video recorders are finally being phased out almost 20 years after losing the battle for dominance of the home video market to VHS. Betamax's manufacturer, Sony, has announced that it will ...

50 years of video recorders: Sony's Betamax as a successful failure In 1975, Sony launched the first video recorders for the home. This was followed by the great format war with VHS, which Sony ...

40 years after the first VHS video cassette recorder rolled off the production line, the last known company making the devices is ceasing production. According to Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Funai ...

WASHINGTON — Long before Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV and Amazon Prime, and long before DVD players (do you still have one?), there was videotape.

As the EngineerGuy explains, the first home video recorder to hit the market back in 1975 was from Sony, and used the company’s Betamax format. Soon after that, JVC released a competing home ...

According to the company, over 18 million Betamax video tape recorders have been sold world-wide since 1975. At the height of its popularity in 1984, approximately 50 million Betamax cassettes ...