Most of us remember the days when watching a movie meant driving to Blockbuster, renting a tape, bringing it home, watching it on a VCR and then driving back to Blockbuster to return it. Most of todayâs kids, however, have had access to DVD and Blu-ray players â not mention Netflix and Hulu â for most of their lives, so VCRs are a totally foreign phenomenon.
In the latest installment of the âKids Reactâ YouTube series, children ages 6 to 12 are seated in front of an old TV, a VCR and a pile of VHS tapes. Then they attempt to operate them. Naturally, it doesnât go very well.
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| Preserve Your Memories For Generations To Come |
That box you have in your closet or storage collecting dust containing all your old home photos and movies, what do you do with them? You can't watch them because you don't have a VHS player anymore.
Transferring these memories to DVD will keep your memories for generations to come.
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Will my old tapes last forever if I do nothing?
No. Many belive that video tapes and photos last forever. But they don't. The good news is it's not too late to transfer them now.
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| Magnetism | | The secret of how VHS tapes work is magnetism. The recording heads on the tape are electromagnets that draws particles of metal onto the tape | | in patterns set by the TV signals. As the tape goes past the | | recording heads, the signals are recorded from the | | | electrical signal onto each of the heads of the tape. | | | Connection | | For a VHS tape to be recorded on, it must be | | attached to the TV signal. When the record button | | is pressed, the machinery within a VCR draws forth a loop of tape from between the two reels located inside the cassette. | | The tape slowly winds around a rotating drum that draws it over | | | the recording head where the signals are imprinted. | | | Playback | | In order to watch the signals that | | have been recorded onto the electromagnetic tape, the cassette must be reloaded. The signals that are stored on the tape will, | | | when the VCR is activated to play mode, produce electrical signals in the head used for playing back video. The result is the feeding of | | | video and audio signals to the television set where the recording is actually recreated on the screen. |
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