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2. VHS - Wikipedia

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   The 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, 1980s, and 1990s. [4][5]

3. Videotape format war - Wikipedia

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   A full-size CD is shown for scale. 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 Betamax and Video Home System (VHS) formats. VHS ultimately emerged as the preeminent ...

4. Timeline of video formats - Wikipedia

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   VHS. Video Home System. Analog video recording on tape cassettes. Beat Betamax to become the dominant format for home analog video. 1978. LaserDisc. Close-up of grooves on a LaserDisc. Analog video that was read via laser stored on a 12 inch disc. 1981.

5. D-VHS - Wikipedia

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   Released. December 1997; 26 years ago (1997-12) D-VHS is a digital video recording format developed by JVC, in collaboration with Hitachi, Matsushita, and Philips. The "D" in D-VHS originally stood for "Data", but JVC renamed the format as "Digital VHS". Released in December 1997, [1][2] it uses the same physical cassette format and recording ...

6. Videotape - Wikipedia

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   VHS became the leading consumer tape format for home movies after the videotape format war, though its follow-ups S-VHS, W-VHS and D-VHS never caught up in popularity. In the early 2000s in the prerecorded video market, VHS began to be displaced by DVD. The DVD format has several advantages over VHS tape.

7. 8 mm video format - Wikipedia

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   Released. 1984. The 8mm video format refers informally to three related videocassette formats. These are the original Video8 (analog recording) format and its improved successor Hi8 (analog video and analog audio but with provision for digital audio), as well as a more recent digital recording format known as Digital8.