Friday night at 9, millions of Americans will sit in front of their televisions and watch the tropical police drama “Hawaii Five-0” on their local CBS station. And over the next week, roughly 3 ...

Sony announced this week that it will stop selling Betamax cassettes from March 2016. It was a format that appeared not to succeed as Sony had desired. Betamax was introduced by Sony on April 16, 1975 ...

Sony announced this week that it will stop selling Betamax cassettes from March 2016. It was a format that appeared not to succeed as Sony had desired. Betamax was introduced by Sony on April 16, 1975 ...

Plenty of physical video formats have hit the mainstream over the years and decades - here are the most popular ones, ranked.

While many people remember recording with VHS, Sony’s Betamax video recorder, which debuted before VHS, has less of an imprint on the public’s pop culture memory. Betamax had a higher resolution than ...

Every decade or so, consumers begin to get very frustrated with a mass media industry that can’t seem to settle on a specific format. Currently, people who own super high-resolution 4K televisions are ...

In the spring of 1978, the program guide published by a Los Angeles public television station contained more than just schedules; it told viewers when they could watch its programs—and what they were ...

Betamax video recorders are finally being phased out almost 20 years after losing the battle for dominance of the home video market to VHS. Betamax's manufacturer, Sony, has announced that it will ...

If you’re old enough to remember or have seen the vintage advertisements, then Betamax was a videotape format created by Sony that enabled people to record their favorite programs and rent ...

Friday night at 9, millions of Americans will sit in front of their televisions and watch the tropical police drama “Hawaii Five-0” on their local CBS station. And over the next week, roughly 3 ...