VHS

American

Trademark.

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

VHS British

abbreviation

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

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For a while, everyone made money, with help from the secondary markets of VHS and DVD.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

As I watched Sunday’s fights, I kept asking myself: how did we go from stolen VHS videotapes in the 1990s to all this?

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

I also watched a lot of movies on VHS tapes and surfed some of the world’s biggest waves along the coast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Thankfully, modern technology means suitcases packed with VHS tapes will no longer be necessary.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

Did she have a DVD player, because they’d gotten this VHS player at a thrift store for only five dollars—Five dollars!

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

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