The rest is modern-day history. It's actually quite sad to think there are generations that will never know how annoying it was to put a tape into the VCR, only to find it wasn't rewound beforehand, or watching in horror when the machine would eat it up and ruin your favorite film forever.
Even though it might be considered a movie-watching relic, some people might still have one in their possession in case it ever made a comeback like turntables and vinyls have. There are even people who collect VHS tapes, with some Disney ones selling for thousands of dollars.
You just won't be able to buy a new VCR on which to watch your old-school tapes anymore. Source: The Telegraph. Photo: Rachel Hinman Flickr. Facebook facebook Twitter twitter Reddit reddit Comment. Lauren Keating , Tech Times 21 July , pm. Add to your wishlist and get notified when it becomes available. View Community Hub. About This Game Something Evil has arrived in the video store Abominations once confined to video store cassettes have escaped the tape and transformed into deadly reality.
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Free to Play VHS is already yours to enjoy, so hop in! See all. There are no reviews for this product. Review Filters. Enter up to characters to add a description to your widget:. Create widget. After all, the VHS tape is both incredibly thin but also relatively durable. At the thinnest acceptable width for playback, a VHS cassette can hold about 1, feet of tape nearly four football fields , and about 4 hours of footage. At either end of the spool, clear tapes provides a signal to the VCR that the end of the tape is near.
Making cassette tapes with plastic produced a nice, lightweight product that could store hours of footage without the heavy film reels of the past. The entire cassette is mm wide, mm deep, 25 mm thick. The device is screwed together with 5 miniscule philips head screws. The best thing about the VHS tape was the ease with which users could access their video. Even for those who were not technologically inclined, the VHS and VCR were relatively easy to operate, even if their inner workings were nothing short of a marvel.
This became problematic for the Motion Picture Association of America. The organization feared copyright infringement would run rampant with such easy access to recording technology. They feared that home users would produce as many copies of the store-bought videos as they wished, which would impact sales.
This led to the creation of Macrovision, a system of coding that would prevent users from making their own copies of VHS tapes at home. Invented in , it was released to the market and the first film to use Macrovision was The Cotton Club.
This iteration of the device came with improved video bandwidth, making it a popular choice for the camcorder market.
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