Betamax Tapes facts
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About Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn't stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive.
how long do betamax tapes last?
Sony only stopped making Betamax tapes in March 2016
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what to do with old betamax tapes?
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In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 margin that it was legal to use betamax to video tape television shows.
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Production of Betamax tapes stopped only in March 2016.
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Sony stopped producing their VHS competitor Betamax tapes in 2016
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Sony still produces tapes for the Betamax, and will continue to do so until March 2016, at which point they will discontinue them.
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Sony's Betamax actually had better image quality and was first to market before JVC'S VHS, but lost the video cassette wars by being too heavy and expensive, as well as having tapes that held an hour less footage than VHS.
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You can still buy Betamax tapes until March next year
