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 VHS
Video Tape Standards
There are (or were in some cases) many different and incompatible
standards used to encode the movie data onto the VHS tape.
The following gives you an idea of the main video tape standards.
There are other variants, such as Australia which used a slightly different
type of PAL than the Europeans.
| NTSC |
United States, Canada & Mexico |
| NTSC-M |
Most of the Americas and Caribbean,
Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan |
| NTSC-J |
Japan |
| NTSC-N |
Paraguay and Bolivia |
| PAL |
Most of European countries |
| PAL/SECAM |
France |
| PAL-M |
Brazil |
| PAL-N |
Argentina, Paraguay & Uruguay |
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