Sony promotional film for the first Betamax machine - 1975 [I Heart Tech]

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In the late 70s through the mid 80s, there was a grand format war, greater in scope than the High Def Wars of aught eight– it was a war for the soul of America, for the future of recorded television media.  And it began here– with the Sony Betamax machine, a far superior format that lost in the end to the cheaper VHS.

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