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 ...

Betamax sales hit their peak in 1984, when 2.3 million recorders were sold, the Associated Press reported. But its rivals already were dominating the market, and by 1988 Sony effectively conceded ...

From Betamax to Blu-ray, Sony has had its share of highlights and low points over its more than 50 years. Here are some of the most memorable.

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… ...

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 ...

Sony stopped making Betamax recorders in 2002, but it kept making tapes for die-hard fans. Sony said it has sold more than 18 million units of Betamax devices worldwide since its launch.

The death of Sony 's long-standing Betamax format was confirmed today as the Japanese company announced in a statement it would cease production next year. The Betamax format went head-to-head ...

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 Corp. said this week it would stop manufacturing Betamax tapes, 40 years after the video format made its debut and about 30 since it was decisively overtaken by rival format VHS.

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 ...