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.

Later that year, Updates started to become rarer when Apple and Sony split while QuickTape stopped to be developed.