Use of VHS Tape for Entertainment At Home

 

VHS is the abbreviation used for Video Home System. Which was a popular device for entertainment in many households only a few decades ago.  The VHS tape was introduced in the early 1970s in Japan. And instantly gained popularity among common people all over the world. VHS cassettes were made of plastic and characteristically had the size of 187 x 103 x 25 mm. The recorded tape was held inside this plastic box by many minute parts made of plastic as well.

 

Simple recording style with VHS tapes:

A standard VHS cassette can hold a tape of the length of 430 meters. Which is wrapped around two posts placed at 180 degrees from the head drum inside the plastic body. These tapes were quite thick to enable smooth operation while playing the tape. There were several speeds for playing these VHS tapes, namely Standard Play (SP), Extended Play (EP), Long Play (LP), and Super Long Play (SLP). However, all these recording options were not available in all tape recorders. There was also an Erase head with a high-frequency signal, which helped to delete any unwanted overwriting on the tape while recording. The tape rotated at the speed of 5.767 m/s around the head drum to record all the videos that a user wanted to preserve.

 

Benefits of using a VHS tape:

 

People could record their favorite TV programs or movies on VHS tapes and enjoy them later, which was also the best way of preserving analog programs in earlier days. The VHS technology was applied to manufacture numerous tapes, which are still protected by all major film studios. The manufacturing companies worked hard to eliminate all recording errors from these tapes. VHS tapes were perfectly synchronized to play on the analog system of a TV. Thus, these tapes worked very well until the television system turned digital.

 

However, VHS tapes are now converted into digital form, to complement the new system of digitalization. Videolab Solutions can easily transfer your videos from a VHS tape to a DVD, as we are converting Betamax and 8mm tapes into digital forms since 1999 throughout South Florida.