Replay: The 1980's were a hotbed of format wars. How did we survive? And more importantly, did a company really try and sell us a video tape that you could turn over? Phil Rhodes starts a two part ...

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If you had a VCR back in the day, chances are you had at least a few of these extremely common tapes that were part of nearly ...

In November 2015, Sony finally announced that it would stop selling Betamax video cassettes. By this time, its battle for dominance with the rival VHS format from rival JVC was already lost. The story ...

I vividly remember my dad coming home with a Betamax.He was proud. Like, “I have secured our family’s technological legacy” ...

I’m a fan of both Amazon and Walmart. I’m a customer of both and I enjoy studying both companies, gleaming insights to best practices from two of the largest and most successful companies ever. I ...

Don’t toss that tape. Just in time for Throwback Thursday, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Councilman Ben Kallos will introduce legislation today to protect the city’s video archives — ...

Yesterday, Sony announced that it would cease manufacturing Betamax tapes and close the last remaining factories in March 2016. The news came as a shock to the technology world, mostly because ...