The original competitor to VHS, Betamax, may have lost the home video fight, but you can still own this obsolete piece of ...

By 1974, that format was dead. Between 1975 and 1977, both Betamax (from Sony) and VHS (from JVC) formats appeared and this led to the infamous format war in the 1980s. Prior to that, there were ...

Sony was convinced that its Betamax tape format was a far superior quality recording — and it wasn't wrong. Sony's format had an overall better image with more vibrant colors, remained more ...

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 ...