VHS en · NOUN
Etymology
Initialism of Vertical Helical Scan, later reinterpreted as Video Home System.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A type of videotape originally developed by the Japanese company JVC.
The curt take on VHS is that it is a dead format, a quaint and sham way to watch a movie. Regardless, to date, there are quantities of VHS titles not available on DVD, and that may never be.
2009, Jacques Boyreau, Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box, page 5:There is, it turns out, much demand for these old VHS tapes, price tags notwithstanding, and despite post-2006 advancements in technology.
2021 February 20, Hannah Selinger, “Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2022:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| VHSes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
DCC (tape formats) · VCR · MicroMV (tape formats) · MiniDV (tape formats) · DAT (tape formats) · VTR · Video 2000 · CC (tape formats) · Betamax · VCC · Video8 (tape formats) · DV8 (tape formats) · DTR
Deriveds
D-VHS-C · S-VHS-C · VHS-C · S-VHS · D-VHS
Translations (7)
it VHS (videotape developed by JVC) · es VHS (videotape developed by JVC) · de VHS (videotape developed by JVC) · es videocinta (videotape developed by JVC) · es videocassette (videokaset) (videotape developed by JVC) · es videocasete (videotape developed by JVC) · fr VHS (videotape developed by JVC)