What does VHS stand for?

Video Home System (video cassette format; patented by JVC)

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Information technology (IT) and computers

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Nishitani developed the Betamax videotape standard that lost out so spectacularly to Video Home System ( VHS ), developed by arch-rival JVC, despite the fact that Betamax, which appeared before it in the mid-1970s, was a better technology , not least because it was based on a standard used by TV professionals.

Clearer picture emerges in battle over high definition viewing

The Video Home System became standard instead because you should never underestimate the value of mass marketed mediocrity.

DVDS JUST LATEST IN LINE TO USURP CONVERSATION

Two companies were competing to develop a working videocassette recorder--Sony, with its Beta system, and JVC with its Video Home System, better known as VHS developed by chief engineers Yuma Shiraishi and Shizuo Takano under the tutelage of cathode ray tube pioneer Dr.

Adjusting VCR prices for quality change: a study using hedonic methods