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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....
...during an update to Arrowhead in 2015....
...The TSE suffered a series of embarrassing glitches in the mid-2000s but had been relatively stable since 2010, when it introduced Arrowhead....
...In a press conference on Thursday, the TSE said that the day’s outage was caused by a hardware issue in its underlying “Arrowhead” system, which was designed in partnership with Fujitsu....
...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...
...Of those, over 10,000 have come from just one company: Arrowhead Engineered Products Inc. of Blaine, Minnesota....
...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....
...movies on VHS instead of television....
...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....
...The TSE said the glitch was caused by an overnight breakdown of a server in the data distribution system of Arrowhead, the exchange’s trading platform introduced in 2010....
...A TSE spokesman explained that the root of the problem was a faulty node in one of the eight servers in the data distribution system of Arrowhead, the exchange’s trading platform introduced in 2010....
...The act makes it difficult and very expensive to obtain a legal copy of Irving Berlin’s 1942 song, “I Paid My Income Tax Today”....
...Music Magpie does not buy VHS tapes or vinyl records as “these can’t be refurbished”....
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