It’s the end of an era. Or more accurately, it’s effectively been the end of an era for a while and this is another part of it. In early 2013, Sony will stop producing its three remaining models of ...

Sony has announced that it will stop selling Betamax tapes in March 2016 – over forty years after the ill-fated video format was first launched and 13 years after the company last made a player. "Sony ...

While numerous streaming services make moving image entertainment available anytime and anywhere thanks to smartphones today, the media industry was quite different in the 1970s. In addition to radio ...

In 1985, promoters of digital audio tape recorders were champing at the bit. Their new machines for home use could reproduce music with much greater clarity than the old familiar cassette tape ...

Sony Corp. President and CEO Kazuo Hirai delivers a keynote address in front of an image of a Sony Betamax at the 2014 International CES at The Venetian Las Vegas on January 7, 2014 in Las Vegas, ...

Manufacturing on the painfully-slow-to-rewind machines will conclude at the end of the month, according to Japanese website Nikkei. Funai Electric, the only remaining manufacturer of VCRs, has been ...

Louis Ottens — the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape — has died at the age of 94. Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad first reported that Ottens died March 6th in Duizel, the ...