Video Home system
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| Range: | 1/2"(1.27 cm) |
| Color: | Subcarrier |
| Clay/tone: | Longitudinal/diagonal trace |
| Running time: | 2-10 hours |
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Video home system is from the company JVC developed similar and 1976 in Japan into the market introduced recording and output system for . The official read kind Video Home system is in Backronym, the abbreviation originally stood for Vertically Helical Scan (perpendicular-spiral scanning) and the used recording technique on the magnetic tape described. After other reports it stood for Victor Helical Scan; JVC (Victor company OF Japan) calls itself within Japan simply Victor.
A video home system cartridge contains a long Magnetic tape, which is wound by a coil on another. It runs by slowly the fast rotating head drum of the video recorder.
Many improved versions of video home system exist, most importantly probably are video home system became generally the recognized within the home range, after it itself on the market approximately Beta max and Grundigs Video 2000, in opinion of many experts technically improves Systems, had interspersed. Reason for it was among other things umfgangreiche pornographische offers, which it gave with video home system. With video 2000 the pornographische use was forbidden against it which one had to recognize later than the largest error in tactics. The moreover JVC was clearly more generous with the lizenzvergabe than the competition. This led to Format war.
Over the emergence of video home system (in particular the secret development and the resistance against the Ministry of Trade MITI) and the reasons of success in Japan opposite Sony's beta max there is a Japanese film "rear one wa Mata Noboru", on English "Dawn OF A new Day: The one Behind video home system ". It is an interesting and at the same time very agitating film. Information about it asianfilms.com and j-fan. On the publicly legal transmitter NHK "Projext ran X" also a documentation to this topic in the Dokumentarreihe.
