Crossword clues for vhs
vhs
- TV taping abbr
- Technology beset by piracy in the early 1980s
- Tape that might spark nostalgia
- Tape format that beat Betamax
- Outmoded tape format
- Outdated recording format
- Old videotape type
- Old TV recording format
- Old tape type
- Old recording format
- Old recorder format
- Old home movie format
- Old Beta rival
- Movie format that came before DVD
- Letters on old movie cassettes
- It bested Betamax
- It beat out Beta
- It beat Beta
- Format that DVD replaced
- Format that beat Beta
- DVD preceder
- DVD ancestor
- Designation for early camcorders
- Common VCR format
- Bygone TV taping abbr
- Bygone kind of tape
- Betamax rival, many years ago: Abbr
- Beta rival
- Beta competitor
- Beater of Betamax
- "Be Kind Rewind" medium
- Like some tapes
- Home entertainment letters
- Tape format that drove out Betamax
- VCR standard
- Videotape letters
- Recording standard
- Kind of tape
- Beta beater
- DVD precursor
- Winner of a 1970s-'80s war
- Outdated tape format
- TiVo precursor
- Pre-DVD format
- Beta blocker?
- Old video format
- Beta follower
- DVD forerunner
- TiVo forerunner
- Tape type
- Videotape format
- VCR format
- Beta alternative
- Taping format
- Recording format
- Old tape initials
- Letters on old VCR tapes
- Cassette type
- Beta rival, once
- Vintage tape format
- Videotape type
- VCR tape format: Abbr
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1982, initialism (acronym) of Video Home System.
Wikipedia
The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes. Developed by Victor Company of Japan (JVC) in the early 1970s, it was released in Japan in late 1976 and in the USA in early 1977.
From the 1950s, magnetic tape video recording became a major contributor to the television industry, via the first commercialized video tape recorders (VTRs). At that time, the devices were used only in expensive professional environments such as television studios and medical imaging ( fluoroscopy). In the 1970s, videotape entered home use, creating the home video industry and changing the economics of the television and movie businesses. The television industry viewed videocassette recorders (VCRs) as having the power to disrupt their business, while television users viewed the VCR as the means to take control of their hobby.
In the 1980s and 1990s, at the peak of VHS's popularity, there were videotape format wars in the home video industry. Two of the formats, VHS and Betamax, received the most media exposure. VHS eventually won the war; dominating 60 percent of the North American market by 1980 and succeeding as the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period.
Optical disc formats later began to offer better quality than analog consumer video tape such as standard and super-VHS. The earliest of these formats, LaserDisc, was not widely adopted. However, after the introduction of the DVD format in 1997, VHS's market share began to decline. By 2008, DVD had achieved mass acceptance and replaced VHS as the preferred low end method of distribution.
VHS is a recording and playing standard for video cassette recorders.
VHS may also stand for:
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V/H/S, a 2012 horror film
- V/H/S/2, a 2013 horror film sequel
- V/H/S: Viral, a 2014 horror film second sequel
- VHS (album), 2015, by X Ambassadors
- Viral hemorrhagic septicemia, an infectious fish disease
- VHS assault rifle
- Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, US
- VHS protein domain, part of a protein sequence
VHS is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band X Ambassadors. It was released on June 30, 2015 by KIDinaKORNER and Interscope Records. The album has spawned four singles so far, "Jungle", " Renegades", "Unsteady" and "Low Life 2.0".
The special edition titled as VHS 2.0 was released on June 10, 2016 with five additional tracks and the interludes removed.