By 1977, VHS machines usually cost less than Betamax machines.

Typically, a VHS machine can only handle signals of the country it was sold in.

Since the 1990s, dual and multi-standard VHS machines have become more common.

As a result these are also played back (though not on standard VHS machines).

The game challenges young people to create their own business empire by researching and marketing better VHS machines for the Japanese consumers.

Such tapes cannot be played on standard VHS machines.

Analysts say that makes them unlikely replacements for VHS machines.

While VHS machines' lower retail price was a major factor, the principal battleground proved to be recording time.

VHS machines across the Atlantic can record and play back at three different speeds; in two, four or six hours.

In 1988, Sony was forced to surrender, bringing out VHS machines, too.