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November 10th, 2015, 07:14 PM
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Equal Opportunity Offender
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Sony to stop making Betamax tapes in 2016
The format was introduced in 1975, disappeared from mainstream use in the 1980s and Japan seems to have been the main holdout for the remaining use of the format.
More at Sony's Betamax, long thought dead, officially gets last nail in its coffin - CNET Andrew |
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November 10th, 2015, 07:42 PM
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Inner Circle
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Re: Sony to stop making Betamax tapes in 2016
HDCAM SR will live on. I know some post houses still have to deliver HDCAM SR.
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November 11th, 2015, 03:59 PM
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Re: Sony to stop making Betamax tapes in 2016
More than enough old reusable Betamax tapes around to last until next century.
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November 11th, 2015, 09:18 PM
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Re: Sony to stop making Betamax tapes in 2016
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