Have you ever noticed, on VHS tapes, the small tab at the left of the case? Do you know why it is there?
This little tab allowed you to re-record over another film already on the cassette. Sometimes, it happened for someone to record a movie on television over home videos! Sadly, it happened and it was irreversible. One minute you are watching, your child celebrating their 9th birthday, a minute later, The Terminator arrived in town.
To avoid this kind of accident, this little tab was removed to avoid the recording over older videos. But what if it you wanted to record over a used VHS tape once the tab was removed? For example, recording over an old hockey game in favour of filming the first steps of your third child.
There was a way to do it. People just put a Scotch tape over the place where the initial tab was removed. It was enough to fool the VHS recorder! Thus, old VHS tapes were reused to record new beautiful family moments again!
At Videomedia, in the initial verification stage, we assure you this tiny tab is removed for each VHS cassette that we receive. This way, we eliminate any possible accidental erasure in our laboratory. To find how our work is done in 7 steps, you can go to our Web site section About.