Video game console sales cap out each generation at around 250 million, so how will the console manufacturers break through that barrier? By learning a crucial lesson from the videotape format war, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Sony will stop selling Betamax tapes in March 2016, 14 years after the last Betamax recorders were produced Wikicommons / SuperArticleGuy I bet you didn't know that Betamax was still on sale, did you?

Your old VHS tapes are likely gathering dust, and they won't last forever. Fortunately, it's easier than ever to preserve them by converting to digital.

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Replay: The 1980's were a hotbed of format wars. How did we survive? And more importantly, did a company really try and sell us a video tape that you could turn over? Phil Rhodes starts a two part ...

Competing cryptocurrencies have been in the news lately. This VICE Motherboard roundup is a good list of some of bitcoin’s most promising challengers. But it makes a comparison which reveals a view ...