videotape

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Here, Tuason cleverly lifts a conceit from “The Ring,” where a cursed videotape gave the viewer seven days to live after popping it into the VCR.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

Ampex invented the first videotape recorder for professional use in 1956, a $50,000 machine that CBS used to tape and broadcast reruns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

But Chadwick doubts researchers will be fortunate enough to videotape Axial Seamount’s eruption.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025

“Adriana was afraid that, since there was nothing in the contract about videotape back when she did the voice and ‘Snow White’ was about to come out on videotape,” recalled Woodman.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2025

When I finish, I rush to the kitchen, only to find a scene so melodramatic that for a second I think I have walked out of Ousting, the videotape, and into an entirely different movie.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich