Super-VHS (analogue) and Super VHS-C 

S-VHS (as it is known) uses a higher bandwidth to process signals with superior quality to the standard VHS format. Used in both the large and VHS-C cassette types, S-VHS achieves a higher picture quality to VHS due to the improved signal processing.

In particular, colours (particularly saturated colours like red) are treated more favourably. Overall, S-VHS possessed significant improvements over VHS, though special tape needs to be used for the recording process.

S-VHS recordings cannot be played back on standard VHS players. S-VHS is a format that came out in the late '80s that uses newer technologies to record a higher quality image on a tape that looks just like your VHS. Of course, since it uses a different recording technology than standard VHS, these tapes will not play on your standard VCR. S-VHS VCR's however, play standard VHS tapes.

S-VHS has been used as a sub-mastering format for several years: due to increased quality playback of the format, video producers have made lower-cost sub-masters of their expensive masters on S-VHS in order to make the occasional duplication or viewing copy. With the introduction of low-cost digital formats like mini-DV and Digital8, however, S-VHS is fast becoming an obsolete format - like VHS itself.