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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, @06:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2016, @06:03AM (#291438)

    I went to three separate facilities for similar purposes. One was luxuriant with a jack off chair, covered in a disposable paper sheet. It had videos (I didn't use them and don't recall the format), magazines of both the dirty and soft porn type, and a wide variety of clean-up material. The second consisted of a room with a door that closed and a stack of sticky Penthouses; and the third refused to take the sample in house, but requested I drive it to them within thirty minutes of production. My wife helped created this third sample, which then was used as roughly half the DNA for my daughter.