Forty years after it was first introduced, and roughly 30 after it became irrelevant, Sony is finally putting Betamax out of its misery. The company announced Tuesday that it will stop making ...

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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 last week that it would stop making th… ...

Sony hasn't built new Betamax players since 2002, and while the hardware had a reputation for being more durable than its VHS counterpart, Betamax hasn't been a viable standard for nearly 30 years.

Sony launched their Betamax video recorders 40 years ago back in 1975, the company stopped selling their recorders back in 2002, although you can still buy the cassettes in Japan.

Sony announced yesterday that it would stop making the Betamax videocassette recorder by the end of this year. The system lost in competition to the VHS tape in the 1980s.

Brace yourselves: Sony has decided to stop producing Betamax VCRs. Read Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox daily. News from the future, delivered to your present. Please ...

Sony will stop producing Betamax video cassette tapes in March 2016, the conglomerate said in a statement on its website Tuesday. A Beta video tape Artur Debat / Moment Editorial via Getty Images.

Sony “will finish shipping all of them by March 2016,” the spokesperson said. At that point, it “will end the the business in Japan.” It has already listed Betamax tapes as out of ...

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 ...