Sony will stop selling Betamax tapes – Portafolio.co

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The Japanese technology giant Sony will stop selling in 2016 Betamax video tape format, after the fall of demand in Japan, the only country where this system is still marketed for 40 years, the company confirmed Tuesday.

This video format was launched by Sony in 1975 for domestic and reached its peak demand by the mid-1980s, when about 50 million tapes placed in all the world.

Despite its initial success, the Betamax standard lost the commercial battle over the medium term with the other major video format with racing at the time, the HSV JVC Japan also introduced in 1976.

players and VHS tapes were imposed domestically, while the Betamax remained in the market thanks to its widespread use among audiovisual professionals and videographers they appreciated most audiovisual resolution.

Sony has now decided uncataloged this format due to falling demand in Japan, which since 2010 was the only country in the world they survived the Betamax tapes , explained a spokesman for the company.

This is because the system is mainly used to record television broadcasts in analog format, which has been completely replaced by digital, as well as the supremacy of the optical and hard drives as storage devices, said the same source.

Sony plans to market in the current year 400 Betamax video tapes and micro MV, and from March 2016 the format will be discontinued.

In 2002, the Japanese company stopped making Betamax tape recorders and players, but continued selling ribbons, which has since sold about 18 million.

Experts point to the increased capacity of recording of VHS tapes, up to three hours, as well as the lower price of these cassettes and players as factors Key to its success.

EFE