Windows with VHS Extension

Windows with VHS Extension (codenamed Anubis) is a Windows for Workgroups 3.11 extension made by Microsoft and JVC as an reaction to Apple and Sony's QuickTape, a format extension for Quicktime.

History
In 1991, along with QuickTime, Apple has developed a videotape extension codenamed Snow White, which would became QuickTape.

Microsoft is shocked of this move after developed Video For Windows,thus starting second format war.

As Microsoft failed testing a new videotape extension for Video For Windows, Apple made Quicktape Betamax-compiable in colleroboration with Sony.

This made JVC to collerobate with Microsoft to make a VHS Extension for Windows 3.11, 3.1 and Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51 (in future releases), based on Video For Windows.

First released in late 1992, however, it supports only NTSC, NTSC-J, PVACS, PAL-M, PAL-N, MESECAM, and SECAM.

An update to the extension was released in May 1995 to support W-VHS, S-VHS, VHS-C and S-VHS-C, also featured support for PAL, NTSC 4.43, OSKM (as a hidden feature), NTSC-film, NTSC-M, NTSC-N/NTSC50, PAL 60, PAL-L, PAL-B/G/D/K/I and SECAM L, B/G, D/K, H, K, M, also featured many bug fixes. It supports Windows 95.

In 1999, another update was released, but this time, supporting D-VHS, D9 and D-9 HD. It supports Windows NT 4.0, 98, ME, 2000, XP and Server 2003. Windows CE 2.0 to 4.0 also work with

Later that year, Updates started to become rarer when Apple and Sony split while QuickTape stopped to be developed. Update 2002 adds support for D-Theater.

The last update was Anniversary update in 2015, where HD-VHS (format doesn't exist in real life) is supported. It works with Windows 10.