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..
That’s because nobody *has* a Betamax VCR save for a tiny few people. Betamax crashed and burned as a consumer format long before the 80s was out - in fact, long before most Americans even *had* VCRs.