The Video Home System, known as VHS, is a recording and playing standard developed by Victor Company of Japan, (JVC) and launched in September 1976. By the 1990s, VHS became the format for consumer recording and viewing.
As with almost all cassette-based systems, VHS machines pull the tape from the cassette shell and wrap it around the head drum. VHS machines use an M-loading system, also known as M-lacing, where the tape is drawn out by two threading posts and wrapped around the head drum in a shape roughly like the letter M.
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