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After 40 Years, Sony Will Stop Producing BetaMax Tapes in March

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday January 19 2016, @02:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-is-this-still-a-thing??? dept.

From WTOP news: http://wtop.com/money/2016/01/happy-birthday-video-betamax-is-still-a-thing/

After 40 years, Sony will end production of BetaMax tapes in March.

"Sony introduced the consumer-friendly Betamax recorder, a suitcase-sized machine that recorded up to two hours of video on a cassette tape off of broadcast or cable signals, in 1975. And that ushered in era of the VCR. (That stands for video cassette recorder, millennials.)"

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Nerdfest on Tuesday January 19 2016, @03:25AM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Tuesday January 19 2016, @03:25AM (#291392)

    Wow, "Sony" and "consumer friendly" in the same sentence. That's something I haven't heard in a very long time.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Marand on Tuesday January 19 2016, @03:54AM

    by Marand (1081) on Tuesday January 19 2016, @03:54AM (#291401) Journal

    Wow, "Sony" and "consumer friendly" in the same sentence. That's something I haven't heard in a very long time.

    In this context, it looks like the author tried to use "consumer-friendly" as a way to say that the product was marketed to consumers for purchase, rather than sold to businesses. There's nothing in the article implying Sony did anything consumer-friendly in the normal sense of the term. I could be mistaken about the intent, but there's nothing in the article clarifying the remark, and lacking any context of what made the product friendly to consumers (versus the usual user-hostile Sony practices), it's my best guess that the author just failed at correctly wordifying his thinkage.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2016, @06:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2016, @06:11AM (#291440)

    > a very long time.

    Thirty years sounds about right.