📼 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

Videocassette 3D

3D

Videocassette Color

Color

Videocassette Flat

Flat

Videocassette High Contrast

High Contrast

Version Information

Emoji Version: 1.0
Unicode Version: 6.0

Keywords

tape vhs video videocassette

Shortcodes

PlatformShortcodeAction
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.

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