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VHS

American  
Trademark.
  1. a format for recording and playing VCR tape, incompatible with other formats.


VHS British  

abbreviation

  1. video home system: a video cassette recording system using 1/ 2 ″ magnetic tape

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Were there any other working titles for that VHS tape?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

The subsequent invention of the cassette tape set the stage in the 1980s for both the VHS vs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

So much so that at around age 8, I rented a VHS tape of the Broadway production and watched it over and over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

The judges praised Kalu's brightly-coloured sculptures - which are haphazardly wrapped in layers of ribbon, string, card and shiny VHS tape - and her drawings of swirling, tornado-like shapes.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

Did she have a DVD player, because they’d gotten this VHS player at a thrift store for only five dollars—Five dollars!

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss