YouTube adds 'Tape Mode' To Celebrate 57 Years of Noisy Recordings

Certain videos on the site now give you the option to watch them in "tape mode", bringing all the fun of static and fuzz to your modern viewing experience. It is all in memory of the Ampex VRX-1000, which is commonly considered the world's first practical videotape recorder and blew competitors away when t was shown off on April 14th, 1956 at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters Conversation. If anyone would like to learn more about the device's place in history, then visit LabGuy's World, in which he has a transcript of lead engineer Charles P. Ginsburg's presentation on its development.