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 ...

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 ...

I still have some home movies on MicroMV, recorded circa 2003. Haven't had anything capable of actually playing them since, oh, 2004. Ah, the joys of evolving formats. As for the demise of Betamax ...

Remember the Sony Betamax? Millennials, rest assured, you probably don't. First introduced in 1975, the Betamax, also known as "Beta," was the first popular consumer VCR on the market. And now, 40 ...

Sony will also take MicroMV camcorder cassettes, the smallest videotape format, off the shelves at that time. The failed Betamax format, introduced in 1975, was meant to go toe-to-toe with the VHS, ...

The death of Sony 's long-standing Betamax format was confirmed today as the Japanese company announced in a statement it would cease production next year. The Betamax format went head-to-head with ...

Yesterday, Sony announced that it would cease manufacturing Betamax tapes and close the last remaining factories in March 2016. The news came as a shock to the technology world, mostly because ...

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 ...

It’s time to stock up on Betamax tapes. Sony announced this week that it will stop selling the media for its decades-old video recording technology in March, The Verge reports, citing a ...

With news that two new Sony Ericsson phones will ditch the MemoryStick Micro card for the standard SD format, rumors are swirling on the ‘net that Sony will kill off the format. If true, then the ...

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 ...