VHS

1/2-inch videotape format, worldwide standard for home video recorders (developed by Matsushita)

This article is about the video format. For other uses, see VHS (disambiguation). The Video Home System is better known by its abbreviation VHS. It is a recording and playing standard developed by Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) and launched in September 1976, with The Young Teacher being the first movie to be released.By the 1990s, VHS became a standard format for consumer recording and viewing, after competing in a fierce format war with Sony Corporation's Betamax and, to a much lesser extent, Philips' Video 2000, MCA's Laserdisc and RCA's Capacitance Electronic Disc. VHS initially offered a longer playing time than the Betamax system, and it also had the advantage of a far less complex tape transport mechanism. Although VHS and Betamax were competing formats, several of VHS' critical technologies are licensed from Sony. Early VHS machines could rewind and fast forward the tape considerably faster than a Betamax VCR since they unthreaded the tape from the playback heads before commencing any high-speed winding. Most newer VHS machines do not perform this unthreading step, as head-tape contact is no longer an impediment to fast winding, owing to improved engineering.
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n. VHS, Video Home System, 1/2-inch videotape format, worldwide standard for home video recorders (developed by Matsushita)

1. Very High Speed.
2. storage Video Home System.
JVC's video cassette format.
3. Virtual Host Storage.