Betamax recorders until August 2002 and sold blank Beta cassettes until March 2016, marking the end of the format's commercial lifespan.

Original version

Launch and early models

The first Betamax VCR introduced in the United States was the LV-1901 model, which included a 19 in Trinitron television, and appeared in stores in early November 1975. The cassettes contain 0.50 in videotape in a design similar to that of the earlier, professional 0.75 in,

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