High-capacity digital recording systems are also gaining in popularity with home users. These types of systems come in several form factors:

• Hard disk-based set-top boxes
• Hard disk/optical disc combination set-top boxes
• Personal computer-based media center

Hard disk-based systems include TiVo as well as other digital video recorder (DVR) offerings. These types of systems provide users with virtually a no-maintenance solution for capturing video content. VHS and other cartridge solutions require physical handling of the media, as well as upkeep duties such as cleaning of the heads. Unlike both cartridge-based and optical disc-based systems, hard disk-based systems allow for many hours of recording without physical maintenance. For example, a 120 GB system recording at an extended recording rate (XP) of 9,800 kbit/s MPEG-2 can record over 25 hours of video content. Just like VHS, the latest optical disc technologies must still rely on tangibles, such as blank discs.

PC-based media centers are also becoming popular in homes. PCs can serve the same features as a DVR set-top box, but also add a usable operating environment for other tasks such as electronic mail and surfing the Internet. A media center may be the better solution for the technical-savvy consumer who is looking for a system he can regularly upgrade, such as disk capacity and software.

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VHS in popular culture

• Toei produced a motion picture called Hi wa Mata Noboru (2002), starring Toshiyuki Nishida. Toshiyuki plays the role of Shizuo Kagaya, the head of the video department at Victor. In the process of developing a home VCR, he basically invents VHS. Although the movie is based on a true story, it was produced purely for entertainment and not as a documentary, which explains some of the over-dramatizations of its characters and events. Several important events are covered, such as the unification of VCR standards by Japan's Ministry of Trade, who favored Sony's Betamax format, and the importance in Victor bringing Matsushita on-board as a partner to build VHS units.

• The 2008 film Be Kind Rewind concerns a video rental store employee (Mos Def) who finds that his friend (Jack Black) has accidentally wiped all the video cassettes in the store, and they resort to acting out the films in front of a video camera to avoid disappointing customers. The film features many references to the format, and even includes a VHS tape on one of the posters.

• The finishing track of Radiohead's 2007 album "In Rainbows", Videotape, concerns its usage in recording memories.

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Trivia

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• The font used in the VHS logo is called "Lee". It was created in 1972 by Leo Weisz for Visual Graphics Corporation (VGC).
• In the late 1980s, Exabyte pioneered the adaptation of VHS tape as a digital computer backup-storage medium. Eventually, Radio Shack marketed a computer data backup device at the retail level based on the same concept. Other, similar devices have been created and marketed since for various platforms.
• VHS is called "half-inch" by some in the film and video production industry, to differentiate it from "three-quarter inch" (U-matic) tapes.

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References

1. ^ "IEEE History Center: Development of VHS", cites the original name as "Video Home System", from an article by Yuma Shiraishi, one of its inventors. Accessed December 28, 2006.
2. ^ Citypaper.com article
3. ^ Video Interchange. Video History. Retrieved on 2007-08-20.
4. ^ Helge Moulding. The Decline and Fall of Betamax. Retrieved on 2007-08-20.
5. ^ ^{a b} "Parting Words For VHS Tapes, Soon to Be Gone With the Rewind", Washington Post, August 28, 2005.

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External links

• Magnetic Image of VHS tape recording / Image And Sound Forensics(TM)
• Forum for VHS fanatics
• JVC HR-3300 the first VHS recorder, introduced in 1976.
• The 'Total Rewind' VCR museum covering the history of VHS and other vintage formats
• BBC News article: Death of video recorder in sight
• Video tape time comparisons for NTSC vs. PAL
• HowStuffWorks: How VCRs work
• The Rise and Fall of Beta by Marc Wielage & Rod Woodcock
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