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). VHS (short for Video Home System) 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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