An end of an era? Only if you didn't think the era was already over. The famed cassette tape has had one heck of a run, and even though the CD itself is finally dying, the cassette was seemingly still ...

Today, you can find Sony's roots lodged in virtually every corner of electronics and entertainment. When you hear the name ...

Sony just announced the MSVR-A10 Memory Stick reader/recorder. That's it, nothing fancy here, just a $215 device which records MPEG-4/H.264 video at 320x240 directly to Memory Stick. Good enough for ...

No matter how much Sony tries it seems that the MiniDisc phenomena never quite gets there, even when it succeeded in replacing audio tape. MiniDisc offers re-writable media that is small in shape and ...

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Sony’s Action Cam is rugged and boxy, but ...

Sony announced Tuesday that it will stop shipping Betamax tapes, which ushered in both the era of commercial videocassettes and the age of tech-product wars as consumers largely embraced the rival VHS ...

Sony's Music Video Recorder may well be the camera sleeper hit of the holidays. Think of it as the ill-fated Flip Video – or, indeed, Sony's own Bloggie alternative – given a pro-audio upgrade, ...

A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio tape ...

One of the joys of old science fiction movies is watching the giant reel-to-reel tape drives spin around as they serve computers less powerful than a modern wristwatch. But magnetic tape isn't just ...