On the other hand, MiniDiscs may be seeing their last days as Sony is one of the few companies producing them, if not the only one. Blu-Ray won the Betamax/VHS war against HDDVDs when the formats ...

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By 1974, that format was dead. Between 1975 and 1977, both Betamax (from Sony) and VHS (from JVC) formats appeared and this led to the infamous format war in the 1980s. Prior to that, there were ...

Sony was convinced that its Betamax tape format was a far superior quality recording — and it wasn't wrong. Sony's format had an overall better image with more vibrant colors, remained more ...