Video Home System. The most popular system of videotape for home use. Developed by JCV.
The standard video tape used for both home recording and commercially released movies and programmes.
1/2" color under videotape format. Most popular tape format. Developed for home use. Used for producing amateur programs. good system for distribution of professionally produced programming
Video Home System. Video tape recorder and player utilizing the ½ in. VHS format: not compatible with beta format.
Video Home System. The 1/2-inch videocassette format developed by JVC for consumer and industrial use.
Video Home System. Videotape format designed to be used in VCRs and camcorders.
literally Video Home System. VHS is a widely-used 1/2" videotape format.
Vertical Helical Scan or Video Home System. A magnetic tape format developed for the recording and playback of audio and video signals.
Video Home System. The winner of the VHS - Betamax format war for dominance. The standard prescribed the technical requirements for VCR and video tapes.
short for ideo ome ystem. VHS is the most prevalent videocassette format since the mid 1980's. back to the previous page
The most widespread video format in the world, originally developed by JVC and which uses 1/2in-wide tape.
Acronym: ideo ome ystem Video: proprietary videotape format created by JVC and used for recording composite video; this is the most common format in the United States. Compare to Beta and VHS-C.
Acronym for Vertical Helical Scan.
VHS stands for Vertical Helix Scan. VHS is the video casette format and technology introduced by JVC in 1976. It is an analog format capable of delivering 240 lines of video resolution, along with stereo sound that's nearly as good as CD. Blank tapes usually feature either 120 minutes or 160 minutes of recording time at the highest recording speed (6 hours or 8 hours at the slowest speed).
Is the most common standard size for VCR cassettes. For normal VHS tape cassettes, there are three generally available recording lengths: T-120, T-160, and T-200. The number indicates the number of minutes recording on the tape in a VCR's highest resolution and fastest recording speed. However, the number of minutes attainable from such a tape is variable depending on the features of the VCR video recorder. For instance, most home VCR units have "extended play" or "slow play" modes to capture more time on a single tape. Many security VCRs also feature extended real-time recording and / or time-lapse recording options to help conserve tapes.
Analog videocassette standard developed by JVC and first marketed in the mid-1970s; for over 20 years, the dominant home video format until recently displaced by DVD.
This recorder/player machine uses 1/2 inch video tapes that are designated T30, T45, T50, T90, T120, and T160. These numbers indicate the recording capacity in minutes of the cassette in two hour mode. The capacity is doubled and tripled in the four-hour and six-hour modes if the machine is so equipped.
1/2 inch consumer videotape format.
A half inch video tape format introduced in the 1976 by JVC (Victor Company of Japan).
Video recording and playback system popularized in the 1980s by a consortium headed by JVC. The most popular video cassette in terms of market share.
A system used to record television programming on 1/2" tape in videocassette.
Video recording format and medium in wide use in conjunction with television technology, offering horizontal resolution of 240 lines. Not considered broadcast quality.
The Standard video format in the Europe and the States. Is relatively low quality with a resolution of no more than 280 lines and not very good color saturation.
VHS or ‘Video Home System’ is the most popular consumer analogue videotape format. VHS is a half-inch tape format and was developed by JVC and released in 1996, a year after Sony's Beta format which it eventually displaced.
Video Home System. The most common consumer videotape format, utilizing 1/2-inch tape.
The analog medium of most home video tapes. A VHS tape is played on a VCR.
The standard tape format for VCRs.
Originally ‘Vertical Helical Scan’, this evolved into ‘Video Home System’ as the technology caught on. Invented by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC) in the 1970s
Video home system. As proposed by JVC, a video recording format used most often in homes but also in CCTV. Its limitations include the speed of recording, the magnetic tapes used and the color separation technique. Most of the CCTV equipment today supersedes VHS resolution.
Standard for VCRs initiated by Matsushita
Vertical Helical Scan (or as JCV calls it, "Video Home System"). Widely used method of recording audio and video electrical signals onto magnetic tape.
Video Home System. The most popular consumer video format used in the majority of home VCRs.
A video cassette recording format developed by JVC.
"Video Home System" The lack of cleverness evident in the name for the current consumer videotape standard is a perfect match for the lack of image quality attainable within this tape medium. Of all the different tape formats that have been introduced over the years (nearly all of which are superior in quality), VHS was the one that was accepted as the universal standard for distribution of video content to end users. Marketing superiority often takes precedence over technical superiority, and never has this been more evident that in the case of the ubiquity of VHS devices.
Stands for Video Home System. It is a consumer, ½" magnetic tape producing 240 lines of horizontal resolution.
Video Home System: 1/2-inch videotape format offering 240 lines of resolution.
These letters stand for Very Horrible System or is that Video Home System :-) This was JVC's rival 1/2-inch home video format. Other possabilities.
A popular format for VCR systems. See also DVD.
an analog format capable of delivering 240 lines of video resolution, along with stereo sound that's nearly as good as CD (in dynamic range and frequency response). Blank tapes usually feature either 120 minutes or 160 minutes of recording time at the highest recording speed (6 hours or 8 hours at the slowest speed). VHS and VCR's are slowly being phased out in favor of DVD players and other digital tape media.
A consumer oriented videotape format using 1/2-inch tape housed in a cassette. VHS-C smaller version.
Video Home System. Dominant domestic video format.
Video Home System. The now-dominant home-video tape-recording system developed by JVC as competition to the Sony-designed Beta format.
video home system. This is the domestic video cassette recorder which uses the standard half-inch video tape.
Video Home System. *" consumer video cassette recorder.
Eclipsed the Betamax in popularity, another 1/2 inch format where the image is not as clear, but because of its popularity, this is overlooked.
VHS tapes are a video tape format. They are rapidly being replaced by DVDs as the media of choice.
Consumer videocassette record/playback tape format using 1/2" wide magnetic tape. VHS is the predominate consumer VCR format today, producing about 240 lines of horizontal video resolution compared to standard NTSC television broadcast signals of about 330 lines. The most common home VCR format in the U.S. Popular rumor has it that Sony originally developed the VHS format concurrently with the Beta format in the early 1970s. Deciding to market the higher quality Betamax system, they sold the rights to the VHS format to JVC in order to recoup some development costs. The rest is history.
The standard home video format. This is a consumer format that nearly everyone has. Acceptable for playback, this format has significant limitations when used in editing. If your tape is being handed to you at the end of your wedding day, it has most likely been shot in VHS
Abbreviation for Video Home System. VHS is a trademark of Panasonic, Inc.
Predominant half-inch videotape format developed by Matsushita and licensed by JVC. [See Super-VHS.
Video Home System. The most common home VCR format.
The standard home video format. This is a consumer format that nearly everyone has. Acceptable for playback, this format has significant limitations when used in editing. Studies indicate an expected life span of about 25 years for a properly stored VHS tape.
A videocassette format. using 1/2-inch (1.27-cm) tape. VHS-C is a smaller VHS cassette. Super-VHS (S-VHS) incorporates advanced digital circuitry.
(Video Home System) Half-inch videotape consumer level format used with VCRs.
Video Home System. Half-inch wide videotape format developed for home use with the ability to record and playback analog video and audio signals.
Lowest quality camcorder. These camcorders record directly onto a VHS tape, which you can take out of your camcorder and put directly into your VCR. Cam resolution is about 250 lines. Recording time: 2 hours.
Video Home System. Video recording and cassette system, also used in professional contexts where the image and sound quality does not demand broadcast standard.
Victor Home System; used by most VCRs as the recording medium - 240 lines resolution.
Video Home System. The 1/2" videocassette format originated and developed by JVC and adopted by a number of different manufacturers. This is the format you would expect to get from your local video rental shop for domestic use.
Video Home System. A type of 1/2 inch video format different from Beta format. VHS-C, or VHS-Compact is smaller for camcorders. Super VHS (S-VHS) provides a sharper picture.
Video Home System: the world's domestic standard for the video cassette medium. Also stands for 'vertical helical scan'.
Invented by JVC. After becoming more popular than the Betamax format, VHS became the standard video-cassette format. The term "VHS" has become synonymous with "video-cassette" and "video," even though "VHS" only refers to the format of the video cassette or format of the home video medium.
a standard for video tape machines. Compare Beta, Hi8.
Tape format used for video recorders
An abbreviation for Video Home System. VHS video tape has quality comparable to NTSC video.
Video Home System. An analog video format introduced into the mainstream in the early 1980s. It gained greater acceptance than rival Betamax among consumers in the spawning movie-rental industry, making it the winner of the infamous “format war” between the two (and coining the phrase that is still in use today). The VHS format, and VCRs in general, have been in decline with the rise of DVDs, but another format war is taking place between two next-generation technologies that will replace the DVD: Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD.
VHS is a recording and playing standard for video cassette recorders.