Only a few weeks after JVC Corp. acknowledged plans to market a new VHS videocassette recorder promising sharper pictures than even SuperBeta, Sony announced that this fall it will introduce Extended ...

A few weeks ago we discussed tricking your video cassette recorder into thinking that it`s an audio deck. Well, here`s one more rabbit out of that hat. Recent statistics indicate that about as many ...

Sony signals the end of an era of glorious failure Sony has finally written the epitaph for the Betamax video casette recorder, many years after the hugely more successful VHS format pushed the ...

Lee Gomes in the Wall Street Journal yesterday (sub. req.) applied the lessons of the VHS-Beta videotape wars in the 1980s to the coming high definition DVD battle between Sony's Blu-ray and Toshiba's ...

I've got boxes of old Beta tapes, and the VCR that recorded them departed this life long ago. Many of said tapes were recorded with this VCR after it was very worn out, and the tracking was probably ...