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Sony announces plan to stop making Betamax video tapes
CBC.ca ^ | Nov 10, 2015 | Haydn Watters

Posted on 11/10/2015 9:04:27 PM PST by rdl6989

Bad news Betamax lovers. The 40-year-old video cassette tapes are about to die. Sony broke the news on its website Tuesday, saying it would stop making the tapes as of March 2016.

The cassette tapes went along with the Beta VCR, the first model which was released back in 1975. The system allowed viewers to record their favourite TV programs onto Betamax tapes. Sony discontinued the players back in 2002, but its cassette tapes lived on.

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KEYWORDS: betamax; sony; vcr; videotape; videotapes
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To: Spktyr

Non-locked DVRs on Verizon? HTPC doesn’t work with Windows 10 and IIRC Windows 7 was the end of that. You still need to rent a card from the cable company for that. There is no simple end user way of recording stuff in 2015 using removable media like we were able to in 1980 with VCRs. Even if what you are saying is possible it is definitely not mainstream and seems like you’d need to have to reverse engineer stuff to do what simple VCRs did back in the day.


61 posted on 11/13/2015 5:19:27 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway

No, it is possible. The problem is that you can’t use HDMI or DVI as a recording source courtesy of HDCP unless you buy semi-illicit gear from China.

HTPC is still possible under 10, they just dumped the media interface because there are better aftermarket alternatives and nobody bought the HTPC edition of Windows anyway.


62 posted on 11/13/2015 6:10:59 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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