Betamax
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Age
Saturday May 10, 1975
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Basic information
AKA
Beta
Category
others
Country
Japan
Description
Video recorder
Consumer-level analog recording and cassette format of magnetic tape for video.
A consumer-level video cassette recorder (VCR) developed by Sony. It allows users to record TV shows for later viewing
Released in Japan on May 10, 1975, followed by the US in November 1975
Sony’s Betamax eventually lost to rival JVC’s VHS (Video Home System) format.
Betamax recorders continued to be manufactured and sold until August 2002
Betamax cassettes continued to sell until March 2016
Mission Impossible is the last major Hollywood film released on Betamax (1996)
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