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 and Laser Disc, which were prototypes of the then-DVD which was introduced in 2000, and, which was a similar sized video cassette with a more complex player unit. By 1987, VHS had won, overthrowing all formats in the war.

The VHS was the most used format to not only watch pre-recorded tapes for everyday viewing, but also record live television and in-person events on. VHS would continue to thrive in the country with miniature alternatives being made for camcorders, as in VHS-C, Hi-8 and Mini DV, but would later be partially overshadowed by the Hi-Media disc (which was an alternative to the DVD) in portions of 2007 and 2008, but would later resurge in popularity within early 2010 after the Hi-Media disc was proven to be more fragile than a VHS tape according to a 2009 documentary by G4.

Following the tremendous downfall of Hi-Media, VHS remained mildly popular and later skyrocketed into fame alongside analog television by 2015 for aesthetic reasons. It was notable mainly due to the effects during playback when you would tamper with the film strip leading it to be damaged, but also being a common figure of the 1980s and 1990s stereotypes.