VHS

From WE Computers Museum
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VHS
Developer JVC
Publisher Various
Systems Action Max
Battlevision
Captain Power
Interactive Vision
Video Challenger
Video Driver
Released JP: September 9, 1976
NA: August 23, 1977
Added to Museum December 25, 1995

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for analogue video cassette recording.

It was developed by JVC and was first released in Japan on September 9, 1976, and in North America on August 23, 1977.

Competition

It largely became the most popular option against the competing analogue tape format, Betamax.

Outside of Asia and Japan, it also was the dominant format against the competing digital optical formats, Laserdisc and Video CD.

It remained the dominant worldwide format until the release of the DVD in the late 1990s.