Standard VHS (analogue) and VHS-C 

VHS - which stands for Video Home System - was introduced in the mid 70s as a way of taping off-air TV broadcasts for retention and so-called time-shifting.

It is one of the most commonly used storage format which is cheapest and is popular all around the world. Though now it has been replaced with much digital formats that has desccreased it popularity to a consider level but it can be found at a lot of homes as a pure form of entertainment.

VHS-C is really just a smaller cassette for the VHS format. It records the same electronic signal as VHS, but allows for use in small camcorders. It has the benefit of compatibility with your full-size VHS VCR by simply inserting the tape into an inexpensive adaptor.

The earliest consumer format camcorders were VHS, using the large size VHS tapes. These started to disappear in the mid 80s as the smaller VHS-C format was introduced in 1982 as a derivative of the VHS format. Using smaller-sized versions of the larger parent format, S-VHS saw considerable popularity as an analogue video recording medium which uses 1/2" tape, though recording times in standard play mode were at most 60 mins. The small tapes can be played in full-size players by the use of an adaptor into which the smaller VHS-C tapes can be inserted.