📼️ Videocassette emoji

A videocassette or VHS tape, a magnetic tape storage medium used for recording and playing back video content before the digital era. Housed in a protective plastic case with rewind/fast-forward capabilities for analog video storage.

VHS tapes dominated home video entertainment from the 1980s through early 2000s, enabling movie rentals, home recording of TV shows, and personal video storage. They represented the democratization of video content and home entertainment systems.

Now considered retro technology, representing nostalgia for analog media, vintage entertainment, and the pre-digital era. Often used to reference old movies, vintage technology, or the evolution from physical to digital media. Replaced by 📀 Dvd and later streaming.

Could also be called VHS tape, video tape, cassette tape or home video emoji.

Other meanings

VHS tape, retro media, vintage technology, analog video, home movies, obsolete storage

Example Usage

Found our old home movies on videocassette 📼 tapes

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Visual description

A rectangular plastic cassette case containing magnetic tape, showing the classic VHS videotape design with label area.

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