Videotape having 240-325 lines of horizontal resolution. Super VHS (S-VHS) and videodiscs contain up to 425 lines of resolution. S-VHS tape decks can also play VHS formats. (See also Video)

Video Home System

Very High Speed
Video Home System
Virtual Host Storage

Analogue formats that store colour information in composite format with 240 to 250 lines of resolution and a signal-to-noise ratio, or measure of inherent noise in the signal, of around 43 to 45 decibels. In contrast, digital video stores image information in the higher-quality component format, with 500 lines of resolution and a much higher signal-to-noise ratio of 60 decibels.

an abbreviation for "Video Home System", a trademark for the « inch consumer video tape format developed by Matsushita and JVC and now widely used for consumer videotape recorders

Video Home System

Vertical and Horizontal Spread Model

Abkürzung für Video-Home-System • Das VHS-System ist im 20. Jahrhundert das populärste Amateur-Video-System
- siehe auch:
Betacam , DV , Hi 8 , S-VHS , Quasi S-VHS-Playback und D-VHS
Video-Bearbeitung und Video-Kompression