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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Were there any other working titles for that VHS tape?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Matt pops in a VHS tape of “Back to the Future” and gets to work, tinkering with the RV in their backyard to give it the proper Zemeckian flair.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Evidence on VHS tapes and floppy disks required resurrected 1980s computers to view and modern facial-recognition tools had to be used to track fans' movements frame by frame.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025

Any of today’s approaches could easily fail, just as Betamax lost out to VHS in the videotape format war decades ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

An old VHS cassette tape that his mom had bought at a garage sale.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

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