{"id":652356,"date":"2013-04-15T04:51:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T08:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=142970"},"modified":"2013-04-15T04:51:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T08:51:38","slug":"youtube-adds-a-vhs-simulator-to-select-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652356","title":{"rendered":"YouTube adds a VHS simulator to select videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-142972\" title=\"VHS Style\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/VHS-Style-600x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The VHS is about to celebrate its 57th birthday, and in honor of that milestone, Google has added a new tape mode to some of the videos on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Although it\u2019s not widely available at the moment, a few clips have a tape icon under them which, which clicked, makes the videos look as if they are playing on a VHS recorder.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the distortion, screen noise, and occasional screen roll, YouTube has faithfully captured the wobbling pause effect beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>In a Google+ <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+youtube\/posts\/Bwcf5eqFW4c\">update<\/a> discussing the new addition, YouTube says: &#8220;Not too long ago, the video tape was the media of choice for living rooms around the world. In celebration of the 57th birthday of the first commercial video cassette recorder, check out a fun VHS mode for the YouTube player to relive the magic feel of vintage video tapes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To see it in action, try this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?vhs=1&amp;v=iCkYw3cRwLo&amp;feature=player_detailpagehttp:\/\/\" > video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=r6WXgUM4n4A:T0-8uRCWAEA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=r6WXgUM4n4A:T0-8uRCWAEA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/r6WXgUM4n4A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VHS is about to celebrate its 57th birthday, and in honor of that milestone, Google has added a new tape mode to some of the videos on YouTube. Although it\u2019s not widely available at the moment, a few clips have a tape icon under them which, which clicked, makes the videos look as if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}