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Video 2000 (also known as V2000, with the tape standard Video Compact Cassette, or VCC) is a consumer videocassette system and analogue recording standard developed by Philips and Grundig to compete with JVC's VHS and Sony's Betamax video technologies. [1] It was designed for the PAL color television standard, but some models additionally ...
S VHS Recorder, Camcorder & Cassette. VHS (Video Home System) [1] [2] [3] is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC). It was the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period in the late 1970s through the early 2000s. [4] [5]
VHS-C is the compact variant of the VHS videocassette format, introduced by Victor Company of Japan in 1982, [1] and used primarily for consumer-grade compact analog recording camcorders. The format is based on the same video tape as is used in VHS, and can be played back in a standard VHS VCR with an adapter. [2]
On sites like eBay and LoveAntiques, collectible VHS tapes are valued at upwards of nearly $10,000 - depending on the rarity and condition of the tape, of course.
"VCR"-format cassettes in case (left) and on own (right). A full-size CD is shown for scale. Size comparison between a Betamax cassette (top) and a VHS cassette (bottom) The videotape format war was a period of competition or "format war" of incompatible models of consumer-level analog video videocassette and video cassette recorders (VCR) in the late 1970s and the 1980s, mainly involving the ...
S-VHS (スーパー・ヴィエイチエス), the common initialism for Super VHS, is an improved version of the VHS (VHS standing for video home system) standard for consumer-level video recording. [1] Victor Company of Japan introduced S-VHS in Japan in April 1987, with their JVC-branded HR-S7000 VCR, and in certain overseas markets soon ...
This is an extension of the VHS vs. Betamax format war, but here neither format "won" widespread acceptance. Video8 had the advantage in terms of recording time (4 hours versus 2 hours maximum), but consumers also liked VHS-C since it could easily play in their home VCRs, thus the two formats essentially split the camcorder market in half. Both ...
The last-minute adoption of the hybrid DVD format was agreed to by all three companies in an effort to avoid a damaging format war, similar to that between Beta and VHS in the 1970s and 1980s. Toshiba failed to reach a similar compromise agreement with Sony in the race to develop a high-definition optical video disc format in the 2000s.