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Key facts
- Storage medium.title
- Video Home System
- Storage medium.name
- Video Home System
- Storage medium.logo
- class=skin-invert|180px|alt=VHS logo
- Storage medium.image
- VHS-Video-Tape-Top-Flat (cropped).jpg
- Storage medium.caption
- Top view of a VHS videocassette
- Storage medium.type
- Magnetic cassette tape, ½-inch (12.7mm)
- Storage medium.encoding
- FM on magnetic tape; NTSC, PAL, SECAM, MESECAM; 525 lines; 625 lines
- Storage medium.capacity
- In minutes. Common for PAL: 120, 180, 240. Common for NTSC: 120, 160.
- Storage medium.read
- Helical scan
- Storage medium.write
- Helical scan
- Storage medium.dimensions
- 18.7 × 10.2 × 2.5 cm(7 × 4 × 1 inch)
Article
40 sectionsContents
- History
- Before VHS
- VHS development
- Competition with Betamax
- Initial releases of VHS-based devices
- Technical details
- Cassette and tape design
- Tape loading technique
- Recording capacity
- Tape lengths
- Copy protection
- Recording process
- Erase head
- Video recording
- Audio recording
- Original linear audio system
- Tracking adjustment and index marking
- Hi-Fi audio system
- Issues with Hi-Fi audio
- Variations
- Super-VHS / ADAT / SVHS-ET
- VHS-C / Super VHS-C
- W-VHS / Digital-VHS (high-definition)
- D9
- V-Lite
- Accessories
- Signal standards
- Uses in marketing
- Comparison to Betamax
- Decline
- Modern use
- Successors
- VCD
- DVD
- High-capacity digital recording technologies
- Legacy
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
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VHS (Video Home System) is a discontinued standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by JVC. It was the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period of the 1980s and 1990s.