📼 Videocassette
A videotape cassette, as a VHS tape used to watch movies or record TV on VCRs before DVDs , DVRs, and streaming. Generally depicted as a black cassette with a white label between its reels. Occasionally used for various content concerning film and video (taping) as well as an icon for a video, as before an upload, link, or credit. May also be used to represent audio cassette tapes. Microsoft’s design previously resembled a voicemail icon.
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📼 Videocassette
Also known as: VCR, VHS, Video Tape
Unicode: U+1F4FC
Image Variants
3D
Color
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Version Information
Emoji Version:
1.0
Unicode Version:
6.0
Keywords
tape vhs video videocassette
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| github | :vhs: | |
| slack | :vhs: | |
| discord | :vhs: |
How It’s Used in Language
Adjectives
- Of or pertaining to the visual component of a television signal. In relation to computers, video refers to the rendering of text and graphics images on displays.
- Set down or registered in a permanent form especially on film or tape for reproduction
Verbs
- To record using video equipment
- Record on videotape
Nouns
- Tape used to record videos.
- A relatively wide magnetic tape for use in recording visual images and associated sound
- A videotape is a recording of images and sounds onto magnetic tape as opposed to film stock used in filmmaking or random access digital media.
- Magnetic tape used to record both video images and sound for subsequent playback or broadcasting.
- Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film.
- A plastic, paper, or metal tape that is coated or impregnated with magnetizable iron oxide particles, used in magnetic recording.
- Memory device consisting of a long thin plastic strip coated with iron oxide; used to record audio or video signals or to store computer information
- Tapes are used in surveying for measuring Horizontal, vertical or slope distances.
- A thin strip of polyester film coated with magnetic material that permits the recording of data.
- Consumer-level analog recording videotape-based cassette standard
- The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videotape-based cassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan.