As consumers saw that VHS tapes could record entire movies and baseball and football games, the choice became clearer—Betamax couldn’t meet their needs, and they were saving money to boot.

1975: Sony introduces the Betamax video recorder. Revolutionary for its day, the Betamax format was on its way to becoming the industry standard until the appearance of JVC’s VHS a year later ...

The sequel to Betamax vs VHS format wars took place in the 2000s when Sony's Blu-Ray technology took on Toshiba's HD-DVD. Blu-Ray effectively won but a few years later was supplanted by online ...

Various updates and enhancements would take the cartridge systems to the end of the 1970s, but by that time Betamax (1975) and VHS (1976 or 1977, depending where you were) were beginning to assert ...

Betamax and VHS, memories of a bygone era By Jay Hilotin, Senior Assistant editor A mechanical click is heard when you push the bulky tape box onto an open-close slot. It’s a signal.