I made a little video about little video tapes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFYWHeBhYbM

@TechConnectify Can't wait till someone is making a holodeck VR hologram about mp4 files in 100 years 🤣

@TechConnectify can I play it on a betamax player

@TechConnectify I haven't yet clicked on it yet, but did you cover all the versions of them? I also uh... no offense, hope you actually spoke rather than just, put a montage of pictures :) ocularly challenged viewer :)

@TechConnectify Babe, wake up! Technology Connections made a video about video formats again!

@TechConnectify Well, cool. Now I know what camera was used in Back to the Future... except it made cue and review noises like a beta machine in the movie. OOPS...

@TechConnectify Thanks for your video. The VHS-C adpater is a very cool device I never heard of before. But for what is the second, smaller hole?

@TechConnectify I want your shirt so badly.

@TechConnectify Love your videos! (and totally get why engaging on Mastodon is not your fave activity).

@TechConnectify Small mistake in subtitles around 14:03: "VHS-C cassettes also have a right protect tab."

@TechConnectify I enjoyed watching it a lot! As a techie I had vIdeo8 and DV.

@TechConnectify Ohh, maybe you should make a video on U-Matic which had different tape sizes without such complicated adapters. They just had a groove in the cassette which would guide a small cassette in a large VCR. BTW the tracking system, which removed the linear tracks apparently came from the standard consumer VCR system "Video 2000".

@TechConnectify a video that won't disappoint surely.

@TechConnectify You are right to say it's technically supposed to be a "VCR", but let's be honest -- who still uses the "R" function of their VRC? I will happily admit that I am a weirdo who still uses floppy disks, rotary phones, and typewriters, but my VCR only ever plays VHS tapes since it can't record modern digital broadcasts (I delegate that task to a DVR), thus mine is more of a VHS Player than a Video Cassette Recorder. But I won't die on that hill 🙃

@TechConnectify yay, more media gubbins!

@TechConnectify Possibly the best thing on YouTube. When video about miniDV?

@TechConnectify The history of VHS is an excellent lesson in the power of established ecosystems

@TechConnectify a pleasure to watch, thank you.