VHS-C's the compact VHS format introduced in 1982 and used primarily for consumer-grade compact camcorders. The format's based on the same videotape as's used in VHS, and can be played back in a standard VHS VCR with an adapter. Though quite inexpensive, the format's largely obsolete even as a consumer standard and has been replaced in the marketplace by digital video formats, which have smaller form factors. The magnetic tape on VHS-C cassettes's wound on one main spool and used a sort of a gea… (More on Vhs-c)