In 2002 Sony announced that it would no longer produce video recorders using this format, a rival to VHS
... VHS became a more open and widely adopted format for 
the video ... Sony's last Betamax recorder was produced in 2002, but the... [DOC] [TLE] Sony Finally Throws the Betamax on Scrapheap - latimes [PAR] Aug 28, 2002 ...