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 ...
When Sony’s Betamax video recorder made its U.S. debut in 1975, it was a cutting-edge technology that brought amazing change to American households. People who got a Betamax machine no longer needed ...
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Why the Betamax should have won — and what its failure said about how America makes decisions
Betamax launched a full year before VHS and was widely regarded as the technically superior format by engineers and consumer publications alike. A single practical feature — recording length — proved ...
The Betamax machine launched the video-store era, even though the recording format was quickly overwhelmed by rival JVC's VHS format. Sony's "time-shift machine" was revolutionary. For the first time ...
Sony said Tuesday it would only make 2,000 more Betamax machines before discontinuing the product altogether, ending its 27-year history–spent mostly in the shadow of the Matsushita group’s rival VHS ...
Thirty years ago yesterday the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled that time-shifting of TV shows using video recorders was legal. The ‘Betamax’ case, or Universal v Sony for its real name, has proven one ...
Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios ruled 5-4 that home recording of TV broadcasts for personal time-shifting was fair use, ...
The news has been full of reports that the last company manufacturing consumer VCRs will cease making them this year. I think most of us are surprised that the event is only happening now. After all, ...
Sony’s Betamax beat JVC’s VHS to market by a full year and delivered sharper resolution and cleaner color reproduction, according to Smithsonian Magazine’s history of the format. It still lost, ...
I was the first on my block in Bergenfield, N.J. to buy a VCR back in 1977. There were two rival video formats back in those days, VHS and Betamax, but the decision was a no brainer for any movie buff ...
TOKYO -- Sony closed the final chapter of its legendary battle with Victor Co. of Japan to dominate the home video machine market, when it announced Tuesday that it would discontinue its Betamax VCRs.
Betamax was one of Sony’s biggest blunders. The videocassette format was introduced in 1975, and initially sold well. But when JVC’s VHS tape cartridge was introduced in 1978, Betamax quickly lost its ...
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