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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

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Jordan says when she was 4 she got up at the crack of dawn every day and put in a VHS tape of a ballet class that her mother, Mary Lim, had bought.

From Los Angeles Times

Were there any other working titles for that VHS tape?

From Los Angeles Times

Spoiler alert, for those of you who still videotape the entire NBA season on a stash of antique VHS machines and watch it back on replay in August in your rustic Maine cottages: Tatum did not play.

From The Wall Street Journal

The subsequent invention of the cassette tape set the stage in the 1980s for both the VHS vs.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

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