I vividly remember my dad coming home with a Betamax. He was proud. Like, “I have secured our family’s technological legacy” proud. We gathered around the TV. We were amazed. The picture was sharp.

Sony announced this week that it will stop selling Betamax cassettes from March 2016. It was a format that appeared not to succeed as Sony had desired. Betamax was introduced by Sony on April 16, 1975 ...

Replay: It's long been a dream to have one home video format to rule them all. Unfortunately everybody has the same idea, and so format wars are inevitable. Phil Rhodes takes a further look at the ...

PARIS — Proponents of the Blu-ray Disc format have gained a major ally as the Walt Disney Company announced it would become a member of the Blu-ray Disc Association's board of directors, and begin ...

The video cassette tape was really the first successful home video format; discs just couldn’t compete back in the early days. That’s not to say nobody tried, however, with RCA’s VideoDisc a valiant ...

Everyone knows optical disc formats like CD and DVD, but history is littered with other attempts to make shiny round discs that hold some sort of recording. With very mixed results! I like to poke ...

This is about as sweet an about-face as you’ll see in business: Toshiba, proponent of the failed HD video disc format HD-DVD, is due to swallow its pride and release a Blu-ray machine later this year.

They say that time flies when you're having fun, and they certainly are right. In a few short months, I'd have been reviewing home video releases for a total of 15 years. It's a role that's not been ...

Study Shows Technology Company Support, Capacity and Ability to Play Discs Across More Brand-Name Players, Computers, and Gaming Machines Drive Preference HOLLYWOOD, July 13, 2005 – A new poll ...

It was 20 years ago this month that consumer electronics companies Sony and Toshiba launched a new home video format called Digital Video Disc, or DVD. The format promised a four-fold increase in ...

The fuzzy future of high-definition DVD came into sharper focus Friday after Warner Bros. said it would release movies for the home video market exclusively on the Blu-ray disc format. The decision, ...