It had stayed out of the videocassette recorder format wars in the 1970s, when Sony's Betamax faced off with Matsushita's VHS. Toshiba is paying eventual winner Matsushita hefty amounts in license fees so it can make its own VHS machines.

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Video will be accepted in the following formats: avi, VHS, S-VHS, VIDEO 8, MINIDV, DVCAM, DVCPRO25, BETACAM SP, DIGITAL BETACAM.

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Imagine if your local video store only had VHS tapes of Warner Brothers Movies, but offered Limited Edition DVD's of all Sony pictures films.

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Meanwhile, revenues have already been in decline in the U.S. video rental market, as growth in DVD rentals hasn't kept pace with the sharp decline in VHS rental revenue.

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