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Sony announces plan to stop making Betamax video tapes
CBC.ca ^
| Nov 10, 2015
| Haydn Watters
Posted on 11/10/2015 9:04:27 PM PST by rdl6989
Bad news Betamax lovers. The 40-year-old video cassette tapes are about to die. Sony broke the news on its website Tuesday, saying it would stop making the tapes as of March 2016.
The cassette tapes went along with the Beta VCR, the first model which was released back in 1975. The system allowed viewers to record their favourite TV programs onto Betamax tapes. Sony discontinued the players back in 2002, but its cassette tapes lived on.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: betamax; sony; vcr; videotape; videotapes
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I thought this happened ages ago.
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:04:27 PM PST
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
Good think I started hoarding them decades ago. LOL
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:08:20 PM PST
by
FourPeas
("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
To: rdl6989
Bring back Betamax. Think of all the Betamax jobs! Bring back Betamax!
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:09:34 PM PST
by
sagar
To: rdl6989
People still use Betamax?!!! Talk about Luddites.
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:09:37 PM PST
by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: FourPeas
My jaw dropped when I saw the headline because I had assumed they went the way of the dinosaur long ago.
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:11:02 PM PST
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:12:04 PM PST
by
oldplayer
To: oldplayer
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:12:42 PM PST
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:12:54 PM PST
by
80skid
To: rdl6989
Well, I still have my VCR (vhs) hooked up to my television set. Mainly because I have well over a hundred old films on tape that to this day are completely unavailable on dvd or streaming services, and haven’t even been aired on cable for three decades.
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:13:53 PM PST
by
greene66
To: rdl6989
Governor Bush, if you had a time machine would you pick up a few cases of Betamax tapes on your way back from killing Baby Hitler?
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:15:35 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(CNBC = Clowns Neutered By Cruz)
To: rdl6989
Sometimes I just shake my head in wonder.
Right now there is a trend toward 80s tech as a retro-chic hobbyist thing. Bands are releasing casettes, short films on VHS and that sort of thing.
And Sony decides rather than capitalize on it, to cut off a potential revenue stream from Hipsters and their parents cash..
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:16:40 PM PST
by
Norm Lenhart
(Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
To: rdl6989
One of Chris Rock’s funniest lines: “What are you, a Betamax? Do they still make you?”
To: rdl6989
Maybe I should stock up on thermal fax paper before they stop making it also.
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:19:25 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Hey Pope Francis- The Gospels are not Matthew, Marx, Luke and John.)
To: rdl6989
I have over 400 VHS tapes in my home library dating back to 1980. Why VHS? Because the Betamax format was just too expensive.
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:20:33 PM PST
by
crazyhorse691
(I am all for making liberals bear food.)
To: rdl6989
This is awful. Next thing you know they’re going to quit making eight-track tapes.
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:28:27 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: rdl6989
Same here. I dumped my Betamax about a year after I bought it, and went to VHS. Time may be distorted by the years, but I didn’t wait long.
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:28:56 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. (Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
To: rdl6989
darn!
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posted on
11/10/2015 9:31:40 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: rdl6989
Still the standard for pro video, I thought? Different tapes than consumer machines, no doubt.
To: ElkGroveDan
“Next thing you know they�€™re going to quit making eight-track tapes.”
No way!!
To: pieceofthepuzzle
Way. Life is packed with annoying little disappointments...
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posted on
11/10/2015 10:07:33 PM PST
by
bluejean
(The lunatics are running the asylum)
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