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 ...

Bad news Betamax lovers. The 40-year-old video cassette tapes are about to die. Sony broke the news on its website Tuesday, saying it would stop making the tapes as of March 2016. The cassette tapes ...

Sony has announced that it will stop selling Betamax tapes in March 2016 – over forty years after the ill-fated video format was first launched and 13 years after the company last made a player. "Sony ...

For once and future Beta VCR owners, Sony’s announcement that it plans to add VHS VCRs to its product line raises a prickly problem. Sony becomes the final electronics giant to fall in line with the ...

If you were holding onto hope that VHS tapes would one day make a comeback, it's time to let that dream die. That's because there will no longer be a way to play those tapes, unless you still have an ...

Sony president and CEO Kazuo Hirai speaks at the Consumer Electronics Show with ... a Betamax player behind him. The company introduced the technology in 1975, stopped manufacturing players in 2002 ...

Sony announced Tuesday that it will stop shipping Betamax tapes, which ushered in both the era of commercial videocassettes and the age of tech-product wars as consumers largely embraced the rival VHS ...

Sony is to stop selling Betamax video cassettes in March 2016, it has announced. New tapes have been available only in Japan for several years - even though the company discontinued Betamax video ...

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 ...