In 1969, JVC collaborated with Sony Corporation and Matsushita Electric (Matsushita was then parent company of Panasonic and is now known by that name, also majority stockholder of JVC until 2008) in building a video recording standard for the Japanese consumer. In 1964, JVC released the DV220, which would be the company's standard VTR until the mid-1970s. In 1959, JVC developed a two-head video tape recorder, and by 1960 a color version for professional broadcasting. Kenjiro Takayanagi, a television broadcasting pioneer then working for JVC as its vice president, saw the need for his company to produce VTRs for the Japanese market, and at a more affordable price.
At a price of US$50,000 in 1956 (equivalent to $498,348 in 2021), and US$300 (equivalent to $2,990 in 2021) for a 90-minute reel of tape, it was intended only for the professional market. In 1956, following several attempts by other companies, the first commercially successful VTR, the Ampex VRX-1000, was introduced by Ampex Corporation. The last known company in the world to manufacture VHS equipment ( VCR/DVD combos), Funai of Japan, ceased production in July 2016, citing shrinking demand and difficulties procuring parts. In 2003, DVD rentals surpassed those of VHS in the United States, and by 2008, DVD had replaced VHS as the preferred low-end method of distribution. After the introduction of the DVD format in 1996, however, the market share for VHS began to decline. The earliest of these formats, LaserDisc, was not widely adopted across Europe, but was hugely popular in Japan and a minor success in the United States. Optical disc formats later began to offer better quality than analog consumer video tape such as VHS and S-VHS. VHS eventually won the war, gaining 60% of the North American market by 1980 and emerging as the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period. Two of the standards, VHS and Betamax, received the most media exposure.
In the later 1970s and early 1980s, there was a format war in the home video industry. The television industry viewed videocassette recorders (VCRs) as having the power to disrupt their business, while television users viewed the VCR as a means to take control of their viewing experiences by allowing them to watch programming repeatedly and at more convenient times. In the 1970s, videotape entered home use, creating the home video industry and changing the economics of the motion picture and television businesses. At that time, the expensive devices were used only in professional environments such as television studios and medical imaging ( fluoroscopy). Video Home System, commonly abbreviated/initialized to VHS, is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.įrom the 1950s, magnetic tape video recording became a major contributor to the television industry, via the first commercialized video tape recorders (VTRs).
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