S VHS Recorder, Camcorder & Cassette. VHS (Video Home System) [1] [2] [3] is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC).It was the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period in the 1980s and 1990s. [4] [5]Magnetic tape video recording was adopted by the television industry in the 1950s in the ...