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Betamax is dead, and you didn't even know it was alive
Sony is finally killing off Betamax tapes, long after people stopped using them.
Decades after they stopped being used, and more than 10 years after it stopped making a way to play them, the Betamax tapes will stop being made.
Sony said that it will stop producing the tapes in March 2016, marking the death of its last connection with the once hotly-tipped format.
The most famous part of Betamax’s history was its war with VHS in the late 70s, which it would eventually lose.
A year after Sony created its tapes, JVC launches a competitor in VHS. Betamax was widely considered to produce better quality recordings — but VHS recorders were cheaper and the tapes could store more and so caught on, quickly gaining momentum …. http://www.independent.co.uk
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/11/betamax-is-dead-and-you-didnt-even-know.html
