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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: 2) by VLM on Tuesday January 19 2016, @12:34PM

    by VLM (445) on Tuesday January 19 2016, @12:34PM (#291508)

    Kids that age almost certainly grew up with Kidsongs and Disney video tapes in the late 80s, and by 1990s they were watching their older siblings watch (rented?) big trouble in little china and goonies and ferris buellers day off and star trek and star wars movies and maximum overdrive (with its ACDC soundtrack) and stuff like that in video tape format.

    The thing I remember most about growing up in the 70s/80s was at least back then parents thought nothing of little kids like kindergartners watching crazy R rated movies together with them. Then they come to school and brag to all the other kindergartners that they watched a rambo sequel or a nightmare on elm street sequel or whatever. I think most of the kids did not, but they certainly bragged. It must be interesting culturally to have youtube on an ipad as the babysitter in 2016. Or the chans and reddit once they can read, I guess.

    You can really tell you grew up in the physical media era if you planned your living room with the constraint of where you'd stash your bookcase or two or three of legacy tape or optical media, or vinyl records I guess (8 tracks?).

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