Marketing mistakes can eclipse many technological triumphs. Sometimes the last of a dying breed ranks superior to its replacement. So it is with Sony`s SL-HF900 Beta videocassette recorder. It doesn`t ...

Sony has placed the final nail in the Betamax coffin four decades after it launched the format. The electronics giant said it would no longer produce the cassettes in Japan, which is the last country ...

Whoever it was in Japan who came up with a sample date for the instruction manual of a new Sony Corp. videocassette recorder had 365 days from which to choose. So which one was selected? Dec. 7.

VHS has been dead for, what, 10, nine years now? Whatever it is, I bet you still have a few VHS home movies here and there. If they’re not destroyed by now, you should consider transferring them to ...

For once and future Beta VCR owners, Sony’s announcement that it plans to add VHS VCRs to its product line raises a prickly problem. Sony becomes the final electronics giant to fall in line with the ...

Sony Corp. will begin marketing VHS-format videocassette recorders in the U.S. this fall. The company, which pioneered Beta-format videocassette recorders, began selling VHS units in Europe in May.

So the 9 year old Hitachi F382 is dying and I'm not sure what to do about it. I've got a decent collection of Disney and other childrens movies on VHS and I can't afford to replace them all with DVD's ...

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 last two ...

The Neuros MPEG-4 Recorder 2 is a Pocket VCR that makes it easy for you to watch your favorite video programs outside the house. iPods now play video, but they don’t let you record your favorite shows ...

Be warned, vintage videophiles: Japan’s Funai Electric, a company that claims to be the last manufacturer of videocassette recorders (VCRs), will manufacture its last VHS player this month. Funai, ...

O.k. So I am Sony whore... View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif <BR><BR>Anyhow, in ym ALL sony system I have a sony VCR w/ a S-Link I/O and a Sony big ...

Troy Vetri's been steadily producing skate videos out of the East Coast for years now. We're hyped to see him drop this new six-plus-minute ditty, but it came with the tagline that this is his last ...