VHS

consumer-level analog video tape recording and cassette form factor standard
Product magnetic_tape_cassette_format_with_side_by_side_reels Q183976
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VHS

Summary

VHS is a magnetic tape cassette format with side-by-side reels[1]. VHS ranks in the top 8% of magnetic_tape_cassette_format_with_side_by_side_reels entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,132 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • VHS is credited with the discovery of Yuma Shiraishi[3].
  • VHS received the IEEE milestone[4].
  • VHS's video is recorded as Medion MD8910 - Inject and eject of a VHS cassette.webm[5].
  • VHS's image is recorded as Videobanden.jpg[6].
  • VHS's instance of is recorded as magnetic tape cassette format with side-by-side reels[7].
  • VHS's instance of is recorded as trademark[8].
  • VHS's instance of is recorded as video format[9].
  • VHS's owned by is recorded as JVC[10].
  • VHS's logo image is recorded as VHS logo.svg[11].
  • VHS's GND ID is recorded as 4339440-1[12].
  • VHS's subclass of is recorded as magnetic tape[13].
  • VHS's subclass of is recorded as machine-readable medium[14].
  • VHS's subclass of is recorded as analog storage medium[15].
  • VHS's has use is recorded as analog video recording[16].
  • VHS's Commons category is recorded as VHS[17].
  • +1974-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of VHS[18].
  • VHS's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dq6p[19].
  • VHS's topic's main category is recorded as Category:VHS[20].
  • VHS's spoken text audio is recorded as Nl-VHS (video)-article.ogg[21].
  • VHS's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300264683[22].
  • VHS's described by source is recorded as Museum of Obsolete Media[23].
  • VHS's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/VHS[24].
  • VHS's equivalent class is recorded as http://bibliograph.net/VHS[25].
  • VHS's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'VHS'}[26].
  • VHS's different from is recorded as VHS[27].

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Works and Contributions

VHS is credited with the discovery of Yuma Shiraishi[3].

Recognition

VHS received the IEEE milestone[4].

Why It Matters

VHS ranks in the top 8% of magnetic_tape_cassette_format_with_side_by_side_reels entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,132 views/month).[2] VHS has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] VHS is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

FAQs

What awards did VHS receive?

Honors received include IEEE milestone[4].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] . wikidata.org.
  9. [4] . ethw.org. ethw.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_vhs_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{VHS}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/vhs}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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