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Nope, VHS, Phillips and Betamax were different standards used for VCR's. Phillips was just the first to produce and retail VCR's.
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The VCR format was also available as a camera and separate shoulder recorder. I have a number of tapes and machines for the later LP-VCR derivative which doubled the 60m play/record times. I've kept them as I mean to digitise the rarer recordings: Mostly Horizon and World About Us documentaries from the late seveties and eighties. Then they all go for recycling.
Technically the format had the best picture as even on the LP derivative the video tracks were twice the width (lower noise) and twice the linear velocity (8m / second) due to a much bigger head drum, of the other competing standards. The linear tape speed was also double so the sound was much better. Later developments in tape technology extended times to 3 hours
Unfortunately the concentric spool cassette design was incompatible with high speed duplication so it lost out when the video rental market took off.
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