Betamax (also known as Beta, as in its logo) is a consumer-level analog recording and cassette format of magnetic tape for video, commonly known as a video cassette recorder. It was developed by Sony and was released in Japan on May 10, 1975, [1] followed by the US in November of the same year.

2023年11月19日 · Sony had just launched the revolutionary Betamax format, giving consumers the power to record television shows and movies at home for the very first time. But just a few years later, Betamax was completely dominanted and crushed in the market by the late-coming rival format VHS.

2023年8月7日 · Sony, the mastermind (or the fool, depending on your perspective) behind Betamax was wise enough to create and market a suite of industrial-sized Beta Tapes for use in music and video production. Luckily for them, it caught on and stuck for longer than commercial Betamax products ever did.

2015年11月13日 · Sony announced this week that it will stop selling Betamax cassettes from March 2016. It was a format that appeared not to succeed as Sony had desired.

2022年3月3日 · Betamax does not have a place at all in this zeitgeist, but somehow, Sony is still manufacturing two Betamax VCR models. That is, until the company announces in August that it will discontinue production on both models by the end of the year.

Welcome to Betamaxcollecters.com. This site takes a look back on NTSC video history, the first home video recorders to ever hit the market. The Sony Betamax. Beta was the format that started it all. The format was introduced May, 10 1975 by Sony in a console with a built in Sony Trinitron television. Sony's second model was a stand alone VCR.

2020年5月14日 · In 1975, Sony released an innovative home video tape recorder called Betamax. Only a year later, their much smaller competitor JVC released the competing VHS format. The Video Format War had begun! Betamax was higher quality than VHS, but more expensive.

2022年11月4日 · You’re looking at Betamax, a revolutionary new product from Sony that plugs into any TV and enables you to see programs you would have otherwise missed. We’ll explain. First off, let’s take a situation where there are two shows on opposite each other and you’d like to watch both of them.

2011年6月7日 · 1975: Sony introduces the Betamax video recorder. Revolutionary for its day, the Betamax format was on its way to becoming the industry standard until the appearance of JVC’s VHS a year later.

2016年1月4日 · But 28 years after it lost the battle to the VHS (or Vertical Helical Scan) format produced by JVC, Sony – which stopped manufacturing Betamax recorders in 2002 – will cease production of the...