As the EngineerGuy explains, the first home video recorder to hit the market back in 1975 was from Sony, and used the company’s Betamax format. Soon after that, JVC released a competing home ...

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 ...

1977: The VHS videocassette format is introduced in North America at a press conference before the Consumer Electronics Show starts in Chicago. Long before the battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD ...

A decade later, in 1987, VHS controlled 90% of the $5.25 billion VCR market. (Last year, Sony announced it would finally ... With early DVD players retailing for $1,000 or more, ...

JVC’s VHS format won this round, but Sony would not forget… VHS-C vs. Video8 By the mid-80s, Sony was behind VHS in the home entertainment market and losing ground quickly.

Sony has unveiled a new DVD burnerthat can be connected to a camcorder or VCR for transferring tapedfootage directly to a DVD, without using a computer. Written by Dinesh C. Sharma, Contributor ...

Sony Electronics took the wraps off four home video products that updated some of the entries into the home AV market. The lineup includes two DVD players featuring a High Definition Multi Media ...

While DVD and Blu-ray dominate today’s world, VHS tapes ruled supreme in the ’80s and ’90s. It wasn’t uncommon for families to document birthday parties, holidays, sporting events, and ...