S-VHS machines can also record and play conventional VHS tapes, albeit with ordinary VHS quality. The JVC HR-S6600U puts the super in Super VHS. It records and plays back an unusually clear ...

TUSCALOOSA | JVC America Inc. announced Wednesday that it will shut down its VHS tape production plant in Tuscaloosa by Jan. 31. About 115 employees in the magnetic tape division will lose their ...

By 1980, VHS tapes dominated the home video market by 60%, as reported by TechSpot. JVC eventually licensed the format to more companies, allowing the production of many VCRs and VHS tapes.

1977: The VHS videocassette format is introduced in North America at a press conference before the Consumer Electronics Show starts in Chicago. Long before the battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD ...

Although not openly discussed at its recent dealer meetings, JVC has quietly returned to the Super VHS camcorder business with two models that use the ET (Extended Technology) recording system. JVC ...

The home video revolution began with the introduction of Sony’s Betamax in 1975. A year later, JVC introduced the competing VHS format. For the next decade, the two formats battled for dominance, with ...

With final agreement on a digital copy-protection system still pending, studio types cast a wary eye on the recordable DVD systems, digital VCRs and growing number of cable and satellite set-top ...

JVC reinforced its efforts to bring its VHS tape format into the world of digital television by announcing last week the selection of a copy-protection solution for secure prerecorded HDTV tapes. The ...

For the folks that just can't let go, JVC is introducing a new duo of recorders that handle VHS, DVD and HDD-based logging. Predictably, the DR-HX500 holds 500GB while the DR-HX250 gets a 250GB ...

As consumers saw that VHS tapes could record entire movies and baseball and football games, the choice became clearer—Betamax couldn’t meet their needs, and they were saving money to boot.

Created by JVC, Hitachi, Philips, and Matsushita, D-VHS was introduced in 1998 as the first high-definition home video format available to consumers. Capable of playing movies in high resolutions ...