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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

News; Business; Ford hands Tesla a big win in VHS vs. Betamax-like battle May 30, 2023 Updated Tue., May 30, 2023 at 7:50 p.m. A Ford Mustang Mach-E electric vehicle is displayed Jan. 18 at the ...