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 ...

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 was VHS vs. Betamax. VHS, or Video Home System, was based on an open standard developed by JVC in 1976. The format allowed longer playtime and faster rewinding and fast-forwarding.

At the time, Barbera said JVC expected mini DVC digital camcorders to begin to appeal to the same audience as S-VHS products. But the following year, JVC introduced the first S-VHS home VCRs using the ...

JVC has ceased production of its single remaining VHS player after a successful run of 32 years. The player, long ago technically obsolete, was made primarily to service older, supplementary ...

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.

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 ...

As a recordable format, D-VHS is still subject to copy-protection rules for digital recording. Until those are resolved, JVC won’t be able to sell fully functional D-VHS machines in the U.S.

Sony brought along a Betamax prototype for Matsushita’s engineers to evaluate, all the while being unaware of JVC’s work on its Video Home System, or VHS.

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 ...

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 ...