{"id":39189,"date":"2013-04-15T16:37:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=39189"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:30:59","slug":"youtube-celebrates-vhs-with-the-tape-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtube-celebrates-vhs-with-the-tape-button\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube celebrates VHS with the tape button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 57 years since the invention of the video tape, and <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.en.softonic.com\/web-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a> is celebrating in strange style, by adding a &#8216;<strong>tape mode<\/strong>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not on all YouTube videos, so you may have to look around to find one that works. The small VHS like icon next to the caption control transforms the image into an exaggerated version of watching a VHS video.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39190\" title=\"YouTube Tape Mode\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/youtubetapemode.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/youtubetapemode.png 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/youtubetapemode-300x181.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Outside of nostalgia, there&#8217;s really little to miss when it comes to VHS. The distortion and sometimes grainy images were always annoying. Rewinding tapes after watching a video was a chore, as was occasionally having to untangle tape that got caught up in the machine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There&#8217;s no word on how long this retro homage will be available on YouTube, so it&#8217;s advisable to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pefow5Kp_W4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check out some videos<\/a> while you can.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 57 years since the invention of the video tape, and YouTube is celebrating in strange style, by adding a &#8216;tape mode&#8216;. It&#8217;s not on all YouTube videos, so you may have to look around to find one that works. The small VHS like icon next to the caption control transforms the image into an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtube-celebrates-vhs-with-the-tape-button\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YouTube celebrates VHS with the tape button&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2355],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-39189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionyoutube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333112,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39189\/revisions\/333112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39189"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=39189"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=39189"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=39189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}