When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The National Football League has reached an agreement with Sony Electronics that will see the ...

Until the 1980's film ruled the roost for location television work, until Sony developed its soon to be ubiquitous Betacam format. Then everything changed. Our survey of camera evolution has, so far, ...

(click thumbnail) As if we haven't had enough milestones lately, the news that Sony is ending production of analog Betacam was one of those periodic reminders from out-of-the-blue that all technology ...

Sony's digital version of its Betacam videotape format. Introduced in 1994 using 10-bit DCT compression and 4:2:2 sampling, Digital Betacam was widely used for standard-definition video recording. L ...

OUR LIVING ROOMS (WHTM) — It was the first home video recording technology to hit the market. A bad guess about how it would be used allowed other systems to supplant it, but it would find use in the ...

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Professional analog component tape format used by the majority of broadcasters, after replacing 3/4" Umatic composite tapes. Beta SP came in two cassette sizes, with the smaller version providing 20 ...

The slow decline of Betamax for the domestic market began in the mid-1980s. JVC had granted countless licenses for VHS and the recorders were becoming cheaper and cheaper. And since Sony had ...

Tucked away in a corner of central Tokyo, the Extinct Media Museum lives up to its name. From Betacam videotapes to floppy disks and vintage Sony devices, the museum is a showcase for old cameras and ...