Suda Prohaska was the reporter 43 years ago, Feb. 13, 1982. VCRs were expensive home electronics back then. Today, they've been replaced by DVRs and streaming services.

LazerDisc and Betamax might have won a few battles, but VHS won the war over the home video market. If you remembered to be kind and rewind, your old VCR tapes might be worth some serious money.

The skirmish between Betamax and Video Home System (VHS) began brewing in the 1970s, but it wasn’t until commercial videotape players became affordable to the general public that the war erupted.

It would be several years before VHS and Betamax would duke it out for home supremacy. You might wonder why it took so long. Audio recording on tape had been a thing for a number of years ...

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Token Ring technology represented the most serious threat, but was defeated by its own expensive, proprietary licensing arrangements, similar to how BetaMax lost out to VHS in the early 80's VCR ...