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The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS, is a recording and playing standard developed by Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) and launched in September 1976, with The Young Teacher being the first movie to be released.
By the 1990s, VHS became a standard format for consumer recording and viewing, after competing in a fierce format war with Sony Corporation's Betamax and, to a much lesser extent, Philips' Video 2000, MCA's Laserdisc and RCA's Capacitance Electronic Disc. VHS initially offered a longer playing time than the Betamax system, and it also had the advantage of a far less complex tape transport mechanism. Although VHS and Betamax were competing formats, several of VHS' critical technologies are licensed from Sony. Early VHS machines could rewind and fast forward the tape considerably faster than a Betamax VCR since they unthreaded the tape from the playback heads before commencing any high-speed winding. Most newer VHS machines do not perform this unthreading step, as head-tape contact is no longer an impediment to fast winding, owing to improved engineering.
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 | Miracle on 34th Street (1997, VHS) Edmund Gwenn ~NEW~
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 | Lights Camera SUICIDAL TENDENCIES VHS Music Videos 1990
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 | Gulliver's Travels (2002, VHS) NEW SEALED ORIGINAL
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|  | Mulan (1999, VHS)
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 | TITANIC - 11 ACADEMY AWARDS VHS
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 | Can-Can (1995, VHS) FAST FREE SHIPPING!
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|  | SNAKE EYES * Nicolas CAGE and Gary SINISE (1999, VHS)
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 | Tarzan (2005, VHS)
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 | Austin Powers in GOLDMEMBER (2002, VHS)
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 | Maze VHS (2000) UNRATED
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