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Old 11-10-15, 12:11 PM   #1
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Sony is to stop selling Betamax video cassettes in March 2016, it has announced
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There was I thinking they were history years ago.

Better snap up some to sell on eBay.
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Sony shot themselves in the proverbial foot when they refused to allow the recording of pron on their tapes.
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http://news.sky.com/story/1585166/th...-betamax-tapes


There was I thinking they were history years ago.

Better snap up some to sell on eBay.
I've still got a box of them in the loft
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More like soap operas from the 1970's.

A friend of mind had Betamax for years and I mean years it never went wrong, he went though about three or four VHS recorders before it died of old age.
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