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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: 3, Informative) by Marand on Tuesday January 19 2016, @03:44AM

    by Marand (1081) on Tuesday January 19 2016, @03:44AM (#291398) Journal

    Also, fuck you submitter. I'm considered a millennial apparently and I was the only person in the fucking house that could figure out how to USE the damn VCR, asshole.

    In fairness to the submitter, the "millennials" snark was part of TFA, so it was the smug douchebag-looking author that was the source of the smug douchebag quote. Unless the submitter was also the author, of course; then your remark still applies.

    At first, I was surprised at the poor quality of writing, until I noticed the site is for a DC-area radio station. (Smug douchebags in DC? Who'd have guessed?) They probably can't afford better, and for radio, even bad attention is better than no attention.

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  • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Tuesday January 19 2016, @04:14AM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Tuesday January 19 2016, @04:14AM (#291409)

    That's fair. I shouldn't take my anger out on the submitter, I suppose. I apologize for that, other than that he also jumped on the snark that was already present.

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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2016, @07:51AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2016, @07:51AM (#291455)

      Jumped on a snark with a frickin' laser beam attached to its head?