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unusual facts about W-VHS


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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

Koloseum

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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).

Structures from Silence

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.


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