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Amazon USA Associate VHS (short for Video Home System) 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.
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
devices were used only in expensive 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 television and movie
businesses. The television industry viewed videocassette
recorders (VCRs) as having the power to disrupt their business,
while television users viewed the VCR as the means to take
control of their hobby.
In the 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, dominating
60 percent 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. However,
after the introduction of the DVD format in 1997, VHS's market
share began to decline. 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, Funai of Japan,
ceased production in July 2016. |
