![]() ![]() It was all too familiar a situation for many an early-90s kid. Or what about when you didn’t set the timer for long enough and that film you recorded off BBC Two suddenly ended – giving way to an advert from whatever random show you’d previously committed to tape? That jarring moment as Die Hard draws to a close, and John McClane prepares to dispatch Hans Gruber, only to be interrupted by Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse flogging Hula Hoops. Who among us hasn’t sat slouched teary-eyed on the living room floor, staring into Jeremy Paxman’s smug, grainy visage and swearing revenge would one day be ours? That moment of abject horror when a 10-year-old version of yourself went to watch what you thought was going to be a successfully recorded episode of The Fresh Prince only to be confronted with some insipid late-night news discussion show. But when our video players betrayed us, and that timer didn’t do its only damn job, it cut deep. When you managed to record an entire season of a show, especially when you’d also cut all the adverts out, it was a triumph the likes of which few millennials will ever know.Īnd most players came with a handy timer, allowing you to capture shows and films while you were out or asleep. Way before Netflix, in a pre-Sky era, people practised the art of recording stuff from the TV onto video tapes. Here’s a few things we’re glad have been consigned to history.ġ) You only had one job, recording timer! describes the erstwhile tech as “an electro-mechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from television on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette”.īut it’s probably better explained as the way in which most of us experienced Disney films for the first time, recorded our favourite shows, and witnessed classic movie moments – all in grainy, analogue form.ĭespite its lasting charm, there are certainly some things we don’t miss about VHS tapes and the VCR players which used to sit under all our massive CRT TVs. Many of our younger readers will be confused by the whole VCR/VHS thing. ![]() Today’s arbitrary event is National VCR Day and we at TrustedReviews are very excited for this important observance. These days it seems every day is a new national celebration of something. That way, you can retain brightness all over the audible spectrum even when slowing them down to half speed.A look back at some of things we miss least about the wonder that was the VCR player. However, some also come with a copy at 96 KHz: Those are the sounds most likely to be used as raw material for further processing into your own special effects. You’ll find about a hundred different samples of bad tracking and tape defect, of different duration and severity.Īll clips are provided in 24 bits and 48KHz. Most were recorded several times over, so you can use several sounds of (say) tape ejection without repeating the same clip over and over.ĭirect recordings of background noise from a silent tape’s hi-fi track are provided, from the faintest background to the worst possible noise. This collection comprises acoustic (electro-mechanical) sounds of a VCR’s operation, and clips of VHS tape noise.Īll sound clips are accurately named and meta-tagged to their particular transport operation or amount of tape damage.Īlong with all single transport operations (play, pause, etc), many combination sequences were also recorded, from the most common (e.g.
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