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45 unusual facts about VHS


80–85

Reissues of their post-1985 releases – Suffer, No Control, Against the Grain and Generator – were released on the same day as the 2004 remastered version of this album, as well as a DVD reissue of their live VHS Along the Way.

Aircheck

Generally, airchecks are recorded by the master control department of most TV stations, and for decades were recorded on VHS tapes, although today recordings are often made digitally.

Aurora Martinez

Although her productions receive virtually no theatrical release in the United States, they can be found in many U.S. video outlets, both in VHS and DVD format.

Battery terminal

The most common sizes of sealed lead acid (SLA) batteries use Faston tabs, but some larger batteries use L terminals, while some very specialized designs use other, sometimes proprietary terminals, such as older Panasonic camcorder batteries (of the type used for VHS shoulder-mounted camcorders).

Can't Get Enuff

The song's music video was commercially released on a 1990 VHS shortform video collection, In the Heart of the Young, Vol. 1, which also featured the clip for successive single "Miles Away".

Canadian Home Video Rating System

The Canadian Home Video Rating System (CHVRS) is a voluntary rating classification system applied to home video products such as VHS and DVDs.

Central Board of Film Certification

Nobody below the age of 18 may buy/rent an A-rated DVD, VHS, UMD or watch a film in the cinema with this rating.

Charley Says

The Charley Says films have been released in the UK (along with other public information films) as both a DVD-video and a two-volume set of VHS tapes.

CherFitness: A New Attitude

The back cover of the original 1991 VHS release boasts a 5 star rating, the highest available, from "Health & Fitness" with an attached quote that the video "...Stands out as a top quality programme".

Chevrolet Venture

A subdued 5-screen DVR style VHS player including an open-and-shut liquid-crystal display screen was introduced in 1999 on all models.

Dbx Model 700 Digital Audio Processor

In general, any high-quality VHS VCR would do, although 3/4" U-matic or Beta decks could also have been used. If viewed on a monitor, the output stream of a Model 700 looked like analog TV "static" or noise, with slight black bars running down either side.

Dead Embryonic Cells

A music video for the song was produced and can be found on the VHS release Third World Chaos, which itself was released on DVD as part of Chaos DVD.

Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich

Warrant: Live - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich is the first Warrant video album released in 1990 on VHS and Laserdisc, featuring the band performing live in concert on the D.R.F.S.R tour in 1989.

Don't Suppose

The B-side of the single, "O.T.T. (Over The Top)", was never released on an album; it was a studio version of "Over the Top", an a cappella track partially sung by Limahl with Nick Beggs during the concert filmed for the VHS and Laserdisc release of Kajagoogoo's White Feathers Tour.

Dov'è l'amore

In the year 2000, this video was released as a promo on VHS tape in the UK.

Fatherhood/Motherhood

Without an A or a B side, "Fatherhood/Motherhood" was the first complete piece of work that the band were happy to bequeath to the world, and was also be accompanied by a two-party diptych videos, accompanying the release on VHS tape.

Filmmaking

This is the final stage, where the film is released to cinemas or, occasionally, to consumer media (DVD, VCD, VHS, Blu-ray) or direct download from a provider.

Get Even

Get Even also spawned a 57-minute live video concert, entitled Brother Beyond - The Get Even Tour - Live 1989, issued in VHS format, in 1991, the same year of release of the band's final single, "The Girl I Used to Know", which bombed in Great Britain (Number 48), but was a minor hit in the USA.

How Could Hell Be Any Worse?

A CD remaster for How Could Hell Be Any Worse? was released in 2004, along with Suffer, No Control, Against the Grain, Generator and a DVD reissue of their long-out of print 1992 live VHS Along the Way.

International Harvester K and KB Series

Two of these trucks are featured (a smaller model on top of a larger model) in a black and white photo used for the cover of Aerosmith's 1989 album Pump, as well as the cover of the 1990 Things That Go Pump in the Night VHS video.

Koloseum

Its music video (directed by Ladislav Kaboš) featured on the VHS compilation Ateliér duše, released in 1987 on Videofilm SFT Koliba.

Loop bin duplicator

At the time digital bins were first put into production, an S-VHS based storage device manufactured by Honeywell called a VLDS (Very Large Data Store) was used.

Me and a Gun

A VHS video of music videos and live performances was released in 1992; it was also called Little Earthquakes.

Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World

The 1992 documentary series was presented as 10 video programs, each 60 minutes long, and was released on VHS after being aired on public television.

Music Is My Radar

Peculiarly, the promotional video for the song is not included on the DVD/VHS version of the compilation and was the only UK Blur video never to have been made commercially available until the release of the Blur 21 box set in 2012, where it features on the Rarities DVD, along with the other music videos not featured on the Blur: The Best of DVD.

My Will

A promotional video for the A side was released on the Daydream DVD and VHS.

Pictures in the Dark

The video was available on The Wind Chimes (VHS and Laserdisc) and is also on the DVD version of Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield.

Plus One: The Home Video

Plus One: The Home Video is a VHS released in 2001 by Word Entertainment and Atlantic Records that shows behind the scenes of what the boys of Plus One do everyday on stage and off.

Refuse/Resist

This video can be found on the VHS Third World Chaos, which was later released on the Chaos DVD.

S-VHS

In 1991 Alesis introduced ADAT, an eight-track digital audio recording system that used S-VHS cassettes.

Shintom

Shintom was mostly well-known for designing, selling, and supplying the VHS transport chassis mechanism to various Japanese VHS VCR manufacturers during the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s.

Shooting at Unarmed Men

The second, "Yes! Tinnitus!" was released on 22 May 2006 - however, Chapple has since moved to Melbourne, Australia for two years (the band played their last gig in the Northern Hemisphere on 16 April 2006 at Cardiff's Clwb Ifor Bach, where Chapple also sold most of his books, videos and some of his records).

Space Is the Place

In 2003, the movie was re-released in its entire 82-minute format on DVD, after a heavily edited 63-minute version on VHS.

Spaced: Soundtrack to the TV Series

It was released in tandem with the first series on DVD and VHS.

Structures from Silence

In 1987 a VHS video titled Structures from Silence was released.

The Big Money

A full-length version of the video was included on the VHS and laserdisc releases of Rush's A Show of Hands tour concert film, while an edited version was released to MTV and other outlets, as well as on the short-lived CD Video format, directed by Allan Weinrib.

The Dain Curse

An edited version of the series was released on VHS in the 1990s; a complete, full-length, two-disc DVD edition is now available.

The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts

This album was recorded during that tour, as was a concert film, Band of Gerbils which was initially released on VHS with a subsequent release on DVD ten years later.

The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld: Patterns and Textures

A limited edition of the original UK VHS tape release came with a bonus CD (catalogue number ORBFREECD1) of the soundtrack.

Too Legit to Quit

A compilation of music videos from this album were released on VHS (1992) and DVD (2002) called M.C. Hammer: 2 Legit - The Videos (102 minutes).

Video Classics

At first the different video formats that Video Classics advertised they duplicated was definitive of the formats on the market at the time, which included VHS, Betamax, Phillips, Grundig and U-matic, whether or not they actually duplicated onto any formats other than VHS or Beta is questionable though, By 1981 their advertising had reduced the list to just VHS and Beta.

View from the Vault, Volume Four

View from the Vault IV was the first "View from the Vault" that was not also released on VHS videotape.

We All Sleep Alone

On March 31, 1988, this video was released as a promo on VHS tape in the USA.

What Shall We Do Now?

The studio version has not been officially released on any CD to date, but has been widely bootlegged from the film (with the audio taken from VHS, Laserdisc and DVD sources over the decades).

WVHS

W-VHS is a high-definition analogue videotape format.


Action Max

With this implementation, the unit can function with copies of the original VHS tapes, including those on more modern formats such as DVD-R.

Akiko Yajima

Jumanji (Peter Shepherd) (Original VHS/DVD Edition and Fuji TV Editions)

Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities

The opening suite "Words with the Shaman" was simultaneously issued as a 12" single, while "Steel Cathedrals" was used in a short film by Sylvian and Yasayuki Yamaguchi, shot in Tokyo, Japan, and released on VHS.

Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution

VHS and DVD copies of the Japanese editions are currently on sale, and ADV Films has released the show in the United States on DVD in three volumes containing both English subtitled and dubbed versions.

Archive de la Morte

The DVD continues the collection that began with the bands first two VHS releases, Danzig (1989) and Lucifuge: The Video (1991), and chronicles the band's video singles from their third album Danzig III: How the Gods Kill (1992), their first EP Thrall-Demonsweatlive (1993), and their fourth album Danzig 4 (1994).

Bottom Live

It ran in 1993 and was recorded for VHS (and later DVD) release at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton.

California Citrus State Historic Park

In 2002 Huell Howser Productions, in association with KCET/Los Angeles, featured the park in California's Gold; the 29 minute program is available as a VHS videorecording.

Cry Baby Lane

A search began for the lost film, and in August 2011, a user from the website Reddit recovered a VHS copy recorded from the film's original broadcast and made it available online.

De Bereboot

Later children's channel Kindernet (now Nickelodeon) took over with more success; by 2000 new merchandise was available including double VHS-tapes.

Detective School Dropouts

The film was not successful at the box office, but it has gained cult film status in recent years, with out-of-print, used VHS tape copies selling on Ebay and Amazon.com for as much as $50.00 USD.

Electronics industry in Japan

Japanese companies have been responsible for a number of important innovations, including having pioneered the transistor radio and the Walkman (Sony), the first mass-produced laptops (Toshiba), the VHS recorder (JVC), and solar cells and LCD screens (Sharp).

Elizabeth Zimmermann

Zimmermann's PBS knitting series is still available on VHS and DVD.

Ernest Goes to Africa

It was re-released October 31, 2006 by Mill Creek Entertainment as part of the DVD box sets Ultimate Ernest and Essential Ernest Collection with The Ernest Film Festival also known as Ernest's Greatest Hits Volume 1 (1986) and Ernest's Greatest Hits Volume 2 (1992) which were originally released on VHS.

For Darkest Eyes

Live footage from Willem II, The Netherlands in 1993 on November 3, the picture gallery and the live song Sear Me done in Simplon 1992 do not appear on the video version due to time constriaints of the old VHS format.

Fred Basset

During mid 1976 a short-lived 5 minute television cartoon of Fred Basset was shown on the BBC, made by Bill Melendez Productions, voiced by actor Lionel Jeffries that was available on VHS.

Great Belize Television

Hurricane Iris: After the Storm (compilation of news stories on the hurricane; VHS)

He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown

Snoopy Double Feature volume 2, a VHS release containing He's Your Dog and It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown, was released on March 11, 1994 (it would later be re-issued in 1997 after Viacom bought Paramount).

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

The film was released on VHS/NTSC videocassette in 1991 by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video under the shortened title "Teenage Frankenstein" which was the alternate title also used when released in the UK by Anglo-Amalgamated.

Interurban Press

(Before VHS video-cassette players became commonly in use, Interurban Press had offered a small number of films in Regular-8 or Super 8 format.)

Jareth

The Labyrinth music videos are available on the VHS tape "The Bowie Video Collection" and the two-disc DVD set, "The Best of Bowie."

La Bola de Cristal

Although it was never released on VHS video, in 2003 selected excerpts of the series were released on DVD.

Little Tiger of Canton

Since Chan became more popular in the West, particularly after the US release of Rumble in the Bronx (1996), the repackaged film has seen numerous VHS and DVD releases from a wide variety of film distributors in the US and UK.

Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour

The other official releases by Michael Jackson is a VHS of his HIStory World Tour concert in Seoul, South Korea, and it was released only in South Korea in 1996, and Live at Wembley July 16, 1988, which is the second leg of his Bad World Tour.

Master with Cracked Fingers

As Chan became more popular in the West, particularly after the US release of Rumble in the Bronx (1996), the rights to release the film on VHS were passed or shared between a number of different film distributors.

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Despite the fact that the film is still copyrighted (by Republic successor Melange Pictures, managed by parent company Viacom, which also owns Paramount Pictures), public domain companies have released the film on VHS and DVD.

Music Videos II

This VHS contains all the video of the singles from the album Anamorphosée, and that of "Que mon cœur lâche" (which didn't appear on any Farmer's album when it was released).

Royal Victoria Dock

A VHS video of the event was released, directed by Mike Mansfield.

Seven Ages

In 2002 the series was released as a box-set on both VHS and DVD.

The Boys Are Back in Town: Live in Australia

The concert was subsequently produced in VHS and DVD format and was originally made for a television special produced by local radio station 2SM and Australia's Seven Network.

The Horror Show

Originally released on VHS with its sequel, House IV on September 1, 1998, the film has been out of print for several years.

The World Inside Video Collection

This hour-long Human Drama VHS video features all of the videos from the critically acclaimed The World Inside album, plus narration, interviews, live footage and acoustic performances featuring Johnny Indovina.

Wrecking Everything

Wrecking Everything is a 2002 live album by thrash metal band Overkill which is the counterpart to Wrecking Everything – An Evening in Asbury Park VHS/DVD.

WWE Tagged Classics

These sets have all of the original music included unless they were dubbed over in the original VHS/DVD releases, for example, Unforgiven 1999's main event video package featured music by Fear Factory and System of a Down, but it was dubbed over on the VHS release and thus is dubbed over on the Tagged Classics release.