While many people remember recording with VHS, Sony’s Betamax video recorder, which debuted before VHS, has less of an imprint on the public’s pop culture memory. Betamax had a higher resolution than ...

While numerous streaming services make moving image entertainment available anytime and anywhere thanks to smartphones today, the media industry was quite different in the 1970s. In addition to radio ...

The Sony voice recorder is a lightweight, handheld audio recorder that is portable and ideal for recording lectures, live music performances, virtual meetings, etc. Sony offers a variety of audio ...

February 2025 will see the end of three formats that Sony played a key role in developing. The company will then cease production of recordable Blu-ray discs, MiniDiscs and MiniDV cassettes. It may ...

Sony is ending production of recordable Blu-ray, MiniDisc and MD Data disc media, along with MiniDV cassettes, the company announced. Last year, Sony said that it would gradually end manufacturing of ...

Whether streaming new sounds, digging through your analogue archives, collecting field recordings or making transcriptions, there’s a dedicated device for every format. With Astell&Kern continuing to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. IFA has seen the debut of various new technologies and audio/visual products, such as tape ...

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Sony’s MiniDisc does record. Contrary to rumors about the unavailability of MiniDisc recorders, they are available. We used the MZ-1 portable MD recorder and it worked flawlessly. It looks nearly ...