Windows with VHS Extension

Windows with VHS Extension is a Windows 3.11 extension made by Microsoft and JVC as an reaction to Apple and Sony's QuickTape, an 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. In 1999, another update was released, but this time, supporting D-VHS, D9 and D-9 HD. In 1999, Updates started to become rarer when Apple an Sony split while QuickTape stopped to be developed.