Imagine you’re the co-founder of a global corporation, a Japanese electronics industry behemoth with virtually limitless resources at your disposal. But you live on planes, you like to listen to ...

Using a stock but high-quality Sony tape recorder, he devised a method of encoding full-color videos into a signal that could be properly recorded on an audio cassette using the recorder’s ...

Skipping ahead a bit, Sony came to be an electronics shop in Japan just following the second World War. Over their initial few decades they became the first in Japan to create a tape recorder ...

The pinnacle model of Sony's broadcast equipment line, the BVU-950 plays high-band, low-band, and SP U-Matic tapes. The machine can accommodate an internal time-base corrector board, with optional ...

As part of the compensation, Ampex gave Sony rights to sell video tape recorders in the non-broadcast market. For several years, it looked like Ampex had given Sony the rights to a market that ...

Nixon also could have mixed onto a cassette from the Scully recorders. 5. On July 16, 1973, Alexander Butterfield was asked by the Senate Select Committee where the Sony tape recorders used for ...

Betamax debuted in 1975 and was the first major commercial videocassette recorder ... cost of its tape players compared with Betamax have been cited as reasons for the decline of Sony's product ...

On May 7th, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded ’Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo’, the company that would later become Sony. After its beginnings making tape recorders and transistor radios ...

Ampex sold the first video tape recorder for $50,000 in 1956. By 1971, Sony began marketing the first at-home VCRs. After Ginsberg’s invention broke, nothing was ever the same for the ...