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S-VHS tweaked the monochrome recording signal to roughly double monochrome resolution. Almost no films were offered on S-VHS so most S-VHS tapes are home recordings. S-VHS was a premium feature there were no cheap S-VHS decks...The base S-VHS decks were always priced between mid level VHS and budget broadcast grade decks. It will still play VHS tapes but using that deck to play worn out old rental VHS tapes is sort of like using a bazooka to get rid of a wasp nest or using a Ferrari to cruise gravel roads...
If you still have the lid open rotate the head drum and look at the gap between the rotor and stator of the drum... anomalies there are tape heads which you can count.
Back when the thrift stores here had something like 30 VCRs on the shelf at any time (like 5 years ago) I used to collect S-VHS decks.
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