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1. VHS

   VHS (an abbreviation for Video Home System) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes. From the 1950s, magnetic tape video recording became a major contributor to the television industry, via the first commercialized video tape recorders (VTRs). At that time, the expensive devices were used only in professional environments such as television studios and medical imaging (fluoroscopy). In the 1970s, videotape entered home use, creating the home video industry and changing the economics of the motion picture and television businesses. The television industry viewed videocassette recorders (VCRs) as having the power to disrupt their business, while television users viewed the VCR as a means to take control of their viewing experiences by allowing them to watch programming repeatedly and at more convenient times.In the later 1970s and early 1980s, there was a format war in the home video industry. Two of the standards, VHS and Betamax, received the most media exposure. VHS eventually won the war, gaining 60% of the North American market by 1980 and emerging as the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period.Optical disc formats later began to offer better quality than analog consumer video tape such as VHS and S-VHS. The earliest of these formats, LaserDisc, was not widely adopted across Europe, but was hugely popular in Japan and a minor success in the United States. After the introduction of the DVD format in 1996, however, the market share for VHS began to decline. In 2003, DVD rentals surpassed those of VHS in the United States, and by 2008, DVD had replaced VHS as the preferred low-end method of distribution. The last known company in the world to manufacture VHS equipment (VCR/DVD combos), Funai of Japan, ceased production in July 2016, citing shrinking demand and difficulties procuring parts.

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1. VHS

   The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videotape-based cassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan. The 1970s was a period when video recording became a major contributor to the television industry. Like many other technological innovations, each of several companies made an attempt to produce a television recording standard that the majority of the world would embrace. At the peak of it all, the home video industry was caught up in a series of videotape format wars. Two of the formats, VHS and Betamax, received the most media exposure. VHS would eventually win the war, and therefore succeed as the dominant home video format, lasting throughout the tape format period. In later years, optical disc formats began to offer better quality than video tape. The earliest of these formats, Laserdisc, was not widely adopted, but the subsequent DVD format eventually did achieve mass acceptance and replaced VHS as the preferred method of distribution after 2000.

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1. VHS

   What does VHS stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the VHS acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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1. HSV

2. HVS

How to pronounce VHS?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of VHS in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of VHS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of VHS in a Sentence

1. James Corden:

   I watched that 'Try a Little Tenderness' dance routine so many times, the tape on the VHS wore out.

2. Joe Maddalena:

   We had no idea what was going to happen -- no one's done this before and to see the success, it's amazing, when you see that, it's a great sense of accomplishment, not even the financial aspect of it but just a moment of' I knew it ! I knew nostalgic VHS tapes would be good.'.

3. Brittany Miles:

   VHS 1256 b is about four times farther from its stars than Pluto is from our Sun, which makes it a great target for Webb, that means the planet’s light is not mixed with light from its stars.

4. Michael McBride:

   But religious groups have been at the forefront of new technology adoption, from the days of the printing press – religious groups were early adopters of the printing press – to using videos when VHS first appeared to setting up websites in the early days of the Internet.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vhs
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=VHS