As The Register reported in 2008, the last Hollywood movie released to VHS emerged in 2006, and in 2016 the last manufacturer ...

The skirmish between Betamax and Video Home System (VHS) began brewing in the 1970s, but it wasn’t until commercial videotape players became affordable to the general public that the war erupted.

LazerDisc and Betamax might have won a few battles, but VHS won the war over the home video market. If you remembered to be ...

Your old VHS tapes are likely gathering dust, and they won't last forever. Fortunately, it's easier than ever to preserve ...

The 1980s are remembered for its outlandish fashions, incredible music, and, of course, awesome gadgets. Here are a few of ...

In 1975, Sony introduced Betamax, the first popular home videotape recording system. Matsushita subsidiary JVC followed with VHS a year later. Betamax and VHS used different cassettes and ...

It would be several years before VHS and Betamax would duke it out for home supremacy. You might wonder why it took so long. Audio recording on tape had been a thing for a number of years ...

Copyright law had been one thing in 2004. It was a completely different thing in 2005 and beyond.

VHS was the first medium, with a brief, unsuccessful experiment into Betamax. Norm’s skipped the LaserDisc and Blu-ray fads. The transition to DVDs was slow and organic. “We just floated from ...

The term used to refer to prerecorded Betamax and VHS tapes, which had their heyday in the 1980s and 1990s. See home theater. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction ...

The effects of such 1984 titles as ‘Ghostbusters’, ‘Beverly Hills Cop’, and ‘Gremlins’ are still felt in popular culture ...

It would be all too easy to compare Gopher’s ousting as a viable Internet protocol with many of the other ‘format wars’ from the previous decades — VHS over Betamax, Blu-Ray over HD-DVD.