All told, the VHS-Betamax war was more good than bad for the average video watcher. DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray When DVD players started showing up in American living rooms, the VHS incumbents ...

Replay: The VHS vs Betamax war is the oldest business anecdote in the book. Well, maybe not the oldest, because it happened in the seventies. Here's what really went on. Whenever a new product comes ...

Remember the VHS/Betamax war? It wasn’t pretty. Hollywood and consumer electronics firms failed to agree on a home video recording system standard, so two competing and incompatible formats ...

Some people say Betamax was “better” but that depends on many factors, and could very well be an urban myth. The technologies were so close Sony’s own chairman called VHS a copy of Betamax.

In the 1980s, Betamax and VHS tapes fought over winning the American home video market. While VHS won the battle, Beta tapes ...

VHS won the format war because its originator, JVC licensed its technology to competitors which lowered the price for VHS video recorders (VCRs) while Sony was the only purveyor of Betamax VCRs.

the console wars of today, the 70s and 80s were a battleground of formats. Betamax tapes were considered to have be of a higher quality than VHS cassettes, while being more expensive. JVC’s ...

A bid to set a universal standard for next-generation DVDs that could ease the lives of consumers is proving difficult, with wide gaps between Sony and Toshiba ...

Blu-ray technology may one day supplant VHS and DVD. Anyone old enough to recall fond memories of Rubik's Cubes, Family Ties, and Duran Duran likely remembers another '80s phenomenon: the VHS vs ...

Reporter: You might have heard. Betamax finally bit the dust. Reader: Betamax, the video format? You must be kidding? I thought Betamax packed it in eons ago, along with Rubik’s Cube and Billy Idol.

In the early 1980s, two incompatible videotape formats called VHS and Betamax duked it out for the loyalty of the world’s consumers. The losers wound up with Betamax equipment and tapes that ...

Thirty years ago, VHS toppled Betamax in part because of the adult film industry, and now some see blue movies playing a key role again as backers of HD-DVD and Blu-ray maneuver to make their ...