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VHS (Video Home System) is a discontinued standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by JVC. It was the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period of the 1980s and 1990s.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VHS | Capacity | In minutes. Common for PAL: 120, 180, 240. Common for NTSC: 120, 160. | 1.00 | infobox |
| VHS | Developed by | JVC | 1.00 | infobox |
| VHS | Dimensions | 18.7 × 10.2 × 2.5 cm (7.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-… | 1.00 | infobox |
| VHS | Discontinued | 2006 (pre-recorded VHS tapes) 2016 (players officially, some VHS still occasionally made) 2019 (blank VHS tapes) | 1.00 | infobox |
| VHS | Encoding | FM on magnetic tape; NTSC, PAL, SECAM, MESECAM; 525 lines; 625 lines | 1.00 | infobox |
| VHS | Extended from | Compact Cassette | 1.00 | infobox |
| VHS | Extended to | VHS-C · S-VHS · W-VHS · D-VHS | 1.00 | infobox |
| VHS | Media type | Magnetic cassette tape, ½-inch (12.7mm) | 1.00 | infobox |
| VHS | Read mechanism | Helical scan | 1.00 | infobox |
| VHS | Released | September 9, 1976; 49 years ago (1976-09-09) (Japan) August 23, 1977; 49 years ago (1977-08-23) (United States) | 1.00 | infobox |
| VHS | Usage | Home video and home movies (replaced by DVD and Blu-ray), TV recordings (replaced by DVR) (successor to cassette tape) | 1.00 | infobox |
| VHS | Write mechanism | Helical scan | 1.00 | infobox |
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