Remember video tapes? Those things with the spools that used to hold copies of home videos and, even more popularly, our favorite movies for home viewing. The little black rectangles we used to leave ...

VHS has been dead for, what, 10, nine years now? Whatever it is, I bet you still have a few VHS home movies here and there. If they’re not destroyed by now, you should consider transferring them to ...

Sony has announced that it will stop selling Betamax video cassettes in March 2016. The firm revealed on its website that it will also stop shipping the Micro MV cassette, used in video cameras. It ...

Back in 1975, Sony introduced Betamax, an analogue video format meant to serve as an alternative viewing experience to JVC’s video home system (VHS). Since that day, Sony has waged battle with JVC to ...

Like a grieving widow who finally parts with her late husband’s golf clubs, Sony Corp. has given up on Betamax. The Japanese electronics giant announced Tuesday that it would stop making the last two ...

Father Time has claimed another victim as Sony recently revealed plans to cease production of Betamax cassette tapes next year. For most, the news here isn't that Sony is pulling the plug on Betamax ...

If you were holding onto hope that VHS tapes would one day make a comeback, it's time to let that dream die. That's because there will no longer be a way to play those tapes, unless you still have an ...

After a long illness, the groundbreaking home-entertainment format VHS has died of natural causes in the United States. The format was 30 years old. No services are planned. The format had been ...

After a long day at the office, Hannah Johnson, a deputy county prosecutor in Indiana, likes to unwind with a movie — so she throws one of the nearly 200 VHS tapes she owns into her VCR player. "It's ...