Rewinding to Betamax: The path to consumers’ “right to record” 30 years ago today, a landmark ruling set technology free.

The Betamax decision has been a shield for the manufacturers of many products that have both legitimate and illegitimate uses, including VHS machines, CD burners and DVD recorders.

Reporter: You might have heard. Betamax finally bit the dust. Reader: Betamax, the video format? You must be kidding? I thought Betamax packed it in eons ago, along with Rubik’s Cube and Bill… ...

Old video formats like Betamax hold lots of memories but are hard to watch today because the players are rare and outdated. A Betamax converter is a device that helps transfer or play Betamax tapes on ...

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 ...

Robert Siegel speaks with Jon Healey, a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, about Sony's decision to cease production of Betamax. Sony announced yesterday that it would stop making the Betamax ...

Sony will also take MicroMV camcorder cassettes, the smallest videotape format, off the shelves at that time. The failed Betamax format, introduced in 1975, was meant to go toe-to-toe with the VHS ...

While it's not a perfect analogy, Xbox is now like Betamax in the sense that people have bought into this side of the console war on the expectation that they will enjoy long-term support and ...

Sony has announced that it would stop making Betamax tape, 13 years after it killed the Betamax player. It may have lost the video format wars, but Sony's Betamax was critical to the modern era ...

Ultimately, it didn’t matter because the public overwhelmingly chose VHS for various reasons, such as the fact that multiple manufacturers produced VHS, while only Sony made Betamax, and Betamax ...