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VHS

American  
Trademark.
  1. a format for recording and playing VCR tape, incompatible with other formats.


VHS British  

abbreviation

  1. video home system: a video cassette recording system using 1/ 2 ″ magnetic tape

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Surrounded by Filofaxes, fax machines and VHS recorders, he shares his theory of why the first series was such a hit.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Along the conveyor belts runs everything you could imagine, from shoes, to old VHS cassettes and blocks of concrete.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

A little over 20 years ago, on March 14, 2006, the last mass-produced VHS tape hit video stores: David Cronenberg’s crime thriller “A History of Violence.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Among these die-hard purveyors of VHS is my friend and roommate Conor Holt, 35.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

I’d seen battles before, of course—we’d been watching old breakdancing competitions on VHS for years—but it was something else entirely to witness these things in person.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

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