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...Sony stopped making Betamax tapes — the technology trounced by the VHS format — only in 2015. Local authorities and banks were still using floppy discs last year....
...In the days of the VHS tape and DVD, it was generally known that children would watch The Lion King, Shrek or Toy Story over and over, but no one knew exactly how many times....
...Light water nuclear reactors, VHS videotape, and even bland American beer are among the products that academics have cited as history’s inferior yet dominant products....
...When he started 24 years ago, publishers would send him physical books with VHS video tapes on which they wanted him to record....
...As an experience it stood in stark contrast to the seemingly permanent nature of the content we consumed, and created, at home: whether it be the dark plastic of VHS tapes or the rubbery glean of photographic...
...But while Tesla may retain the technology edge, having technically superior products is no guarantee of success, as the fall of Betamax against the inferior VHS videotape technology showed in the 1990s....
...Then the rise of VHS video recorders delivered a further blow in the early 1980s. Why did admissions pick up from 1984? The arrival of the multiplex....
...A hatful of tech products came and went during fax’s reign, from dial-up internet to pagers; personal digital assistants; CD Rom, MiniDisc, VHS and its successor DVD; and even MP3s, which officially died...
...Sony’s Betamax videotape, which lost out to the VHS format, is just one example of how a company can have the right idea but still lose money on its investment....
...stuff of parody — see Noah Baumbach’s 2014 film While We’re Young , about a middle-aged couple in Brooklyn who are enthralled by a couple in their 20s who ride bicycles around the city and watch movies on VHS...
...As with previous tech interoperability battles — the most notorious being between the VHS and Betamax videotape formats — the winner will probably be the group that combines the best marketing with securing...
...Apparently, the Latin American strongman Manuel Noriega had a library filled with violent American VHS video tapes (before the era of DVDs)....
...It was a throwback to the days when consumers got used to replacing their entertainment libraries every few years – re-buying in CD form what they once treasured on vinyl, or trading VHS tapes for DVDs....
...“It’s like Betamax and VHS,” says David Hayes, a tobacco analyst at Nomura. “We don’t know what the preferred standard will be.”...
...“[We had the] Blu-ray/HD-DVD and VHS/Betamax standards battle, but there are even more organisations involved here,” said Jason dePreaux, an analyst at IMS Research....
...Jason dePreaux, of IMS Research, says the growing number of organisations beyond the WPC makes this more complex than the Blu-ray versus HD-DVD and VHS versus Betamax standards wars of the past....
...They don’t want to be a Betamax equivalent in a world of VHS....
...It’s the reason I cannot convert my Macromedia-encrypted VHS tapes to DVD. Frustration over the copyright, not cost, is the reason I have switched my office computers from Windows to Linux....
...Music Magpie does not buy VHS tapes or vinyl records as “these can’t be refurbished”....
...The studios have traditionally generated higher margins selling films to consumers on DVD or VHS than they have renting them....
...Rao of the Rovers Why might VH Group want to buy Blackburn Rovers? Venky’s is a food-focused business from cricket-obsessed India....
...As he prepared to board a flight to Las Vegas for this year’s CES, Sony chairman Sir Howard Stringer recalled that he was initially given a rough ride for his stance in the rehash of the VHS-Betamax video...
...First VHS saw off Betamax in the great home video battle of the 1980s. More recently, Blu-ray won the right to succeed the DVD when it was preferred by film studios to rival HD-DVD technology....
...Hawaiian shirts and white jeans are all the rage, teenage girls are queuing up for Boyzone CDs and the first Austin Powers film is out on VHS....
...“It’s not about one standard winning over the other, it’s not about Betamax versus VHS,” says Ms Li. “At some point everything will connect, because the user will absolutely demand it.” Perhaps....
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