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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2016, @04:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2016, @04:22AM (#291415)

    It still takes me two tries to insert one of my few remaining tapes into the VCR deck.

    Oops, not that way, the other way.

  • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Tuesday January 19 2016, @04:57AM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Tuesday January 19 2016, @04:57AM (#291426)

    Still better insertion rate than USB.

    http://imgur.com/gallery/5A6cx3D [imgur.com]

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