Electronics, VHS Player

"Video home system" is an analog recording format developed by JVC in 1976. The system uses a half-inch wide magnetic tape and can record up to six hours of video content with 240 lines of horizontal and 486 lines of vertical resolution, as well as a stereo sound track. The format was designed to be cheap, easy to use, and compatible with a wide range of video cameras and cassette players, and by the 1990s it was the dominant video standard in the global market.