VHS in the Republic of Wilson

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VHS was first introduced to the Republic of Wilson in May 1968 as the "Compact Carriage System", or CCS, by Wheeler. It was initially released to educational and archival centers, and later got into the hands of the public in late 1972. Eventually, the CCS would grow in the mid and late 1970s, and would eventually be renamed to the "Videograph Home System", or simply VHS for short in 1977, with the "graph" in "videograph" being dropped a year after. VHS would eventually compete with other formats in the infamous "Format Wars" of the early and mid 1980s, with other formats including Video 79, which looked like more of an audio cassette (and a primitive format to the succesful PXL 2000 camcorder and player which would support audio cassettes), the Video Override Disc, which was a prototype of the then-DVD which was introduced in 1997, and, which was a similar sized video cassette with a more complex player unit.