1. Betamax - Verb
2. Betamax - Proper noun
Betamax
A home videocassette recording format, now known for having lost the format war to VHS.
Betamax (third-person singular simple present Betamaxes, present participle Betamaxing, simple past and past participle Betamaxed)
(transitive, informal) To make obsolete.
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly. Guillermo del Toro
As competition came from Sony 's Betamax and the VHS group of manufacturers, Philips introduced the N1700 system which allowed double-length recording. Source: Internet
The heterodyne color-under process of U-Matic, Betamax & VHS lent itself to minor modification of VCR players to accommodate NTSC format cassettes. Source: Internet
However, by 1981, United States' Betamax sales had dipped to only 25-percent of all sales. citation There was debate between experts over the cause of Betamax's loss. Source: Internet
However, the sticking point for both consumers and potential licensing partners of Betamax was the total recording time. Source: Internet
In 1975, it released the first Betamax home video recorder, a year before VHS format came out. Source: Internet