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MAY 27 2016 VHS HISTORY : ORIGIN OF VHS TAPES
It was first introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago on June 4, 1977, and later marketed to the public on October 1, 1977. During the late part of the 1970s and the early 1980s, the home video industry was involved in the VHS vs. Betamax war, which VHS would eventually win. Advantages of VHS included longer playing time, faster rewinding and fast-forwarding, and a less-complex, lower-cost tape transport mechanism. The VHS technology was owned by JVC, but they allowed other manufacturers to license the format for much smaller fees than Sony did, leading to wide adoption by non-JVC companies. VHS would eventually succeed as the dominant home video format, surpassing others by the early 1980s and remaining dominant through the 90s.
In later years, optical disc formats began to offer better quality than video tape. The earliest of these formats, Laserdisc, was not widely adopted, but the subsequent DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) format eventually did achieve mass acceptance and replaced VHS as the preferred method of distribution after 2000. By 2006, film studios in the United States had stopped releasing new movie titles in VHS format. On December 31, 2008, the last major United States supplier of pre-recorded VHS tapes, Distribution Video Audio Inc. of Palm Harbor, Florida, shipped its final truckload. As of 2010[update], most of the VHS tapes being produced are blank.
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