What caused the downfall of Betamax?

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Because more households chose to use VHS, the rental industry carried more options in the VHS format which eventually led to the phasing out of Beta videocassettes all together. By the late 1980's Sony recognized the trend and began manufacturing VHS VCR's, thus bringing the Betamax Era to a close...
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By the late 1980's Sony recognized the trend and began manufacturing VHS VCR's, thus bringing the Betamax Era to a close. Sony continued to produce Betamax systems on a much smaller scale until completely halting production in 2002. Delivering a product for 26 years seems hardly like a failure, but only very small segment of the population even knew that Betamax was available for the last 15 years of their existence...
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