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Video Home System
VHS logo
Top view of a VHS cassette
Media type Video recording media
Encoding FM on magnetic tape; PAL, NTSC, SECAM
Capacity common: 120, 160 minutes (Standard Play Mode); unusual: 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, 90, 130, 180, 190, 200, 210 minutes (Standard Play Mode)
Read mechanism Helical scan
Write mechanism Helical scan
Developed by JVC (Victor Company of Japan)
Dimensions 18.7 × 10.2 × 2.5 cm
(7​1⁄3 × 4 × 1 inch)
Usage Home video, home movie, educational, feature films
Released 9 September 1976; 42 years ago
Discontinued 2008; 11 years ago (United States)
July 2016; 2 years ago (Japan)

VHS recorder, camcorder and cassette.
VHS (short for Video Home System)[1][2][3] is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes. Developed by Victor Company of Japan (JVC) in the early 1970s, it was released in Japan on September 9, 1976 and in the United States on August 23, 1977.