Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.
Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.
Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭
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You also cannot turn on subtitles on a VHS tape. It either has captions or doesn't. Usually doesn't.
Select next track on a record involved surgical precision, and the risk of destroying the very recording if you placed the needle just wrong. Of course, naturally, the spinning platter of recorded medium was extremely sensitive to being scratched, given all of the data was encoded with scratch marks and dents.
