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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 meisterister on Wednesday January 20 2016, @01:37AM

    by meisterister (949) on Wednesday January 20 2016, @01:37AM (#291884) Journal

    +1 to the second point (with the clarification that it's from TFA).

    '97 here, and every single one of my peers knows what a VCR is. Not only that, but a significant number of my friends and I continue to use our VCRs (movies on VHS are dirt cheap right now; I also enjoy recording with a DRM-free format).

    I am, however, the only one who not only knows what Laserdisc is but actually has a player, but I digress.

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