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

But the rest of us ended up with better and cheaper players, packed with features designed to outdo the opposition. All told, the VHS-Betamax war was more good than bad for the average video watcher.

A format war is when there is a competition between mutually incompatible proprietary formats that compete for the same market. The most remembered format war is VHS vs. Betamax for video tape ...

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 on which technology should be used ...

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 emerged.

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.

Betamax tapes were considered to have be of a higher quality than VHS cassettes, while being more expensive. JVC’s format, however, had a tremendous ally on their side: the porn industry.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from VHS vs. Betamax Decide which is the superior format in this Vaporwave inspired 4 player fighting game! Advertisement All the Latest Game Footage and ...

You think you enjoyed Blu-ray vs HD DVD? Memory Stick vs SD? Pshaw! You haven’t seen a format war until you’ve witnessed the betrayal and bloodbath that was Betamax vs VHS. Click to viewSony ...

The Absurdly High Costs of the VHS vs. Betamax Wars The VHS vs. Betamax format war doesn’t even feel like a cultural skirmish these days. By the mid-1980s, VHS had established its market ...

With the great VHS vs. Betamax war largely having been decided in favor of VHS, the U.S. home entertainment market was primed to take off.