What Is the Difference Between a VHS and a VCR …
In practical terms, there is not a lot of difference between VHS and VCR. VHS is a videotape cassette format, and VCR is actually the name for a type of player. But in reality, with the demise of Sony's Betamax format for home videocassettes, virtually all VCRs exclusively play VHS tapes, and virtually all videocassettes are in the VHS format.
