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MemoryChip 6 years 8 months ago Posts: 605	definitely remember this after the movie was over but it really never scared me, I just ejected it after
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videos4ever 6 years 8 months ago Posts: 191 Globally Banned	I have one, but it's different! It has several colours striped across it! It's on my big box rental VHS of "Oscar".

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System 6 years 8 months ago Posts: 74809	The "Telephone Sound" is actually the sound of the master factory machine synching the copies. I learned that years ago. It's not as cool as it sounds. The same thing occured on cassette tapes manufactured by Virgin, Captitol Records and EMI. In the US we usually just got blue static at the end credits or a length of black instead of static home video logos and copy codes. By the way, you're talking about "Blank tapes that have start cards/test cards/countdowns/", those were usually ordered straight from a local PBS or other local network. For a few seasons, Mystery Science Theater 3000 actually started by showing title cards with the experement number, title, runtime and a still of the episode. You can find screencaps over on MST3K Temple. I see these episode test cards turn up on the locals a lot during showings of syndicated reruns when their computer fails to run commercials on the dark spot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_card

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pearljamownzyou
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I remembered this as well and it did freak me out a bit.
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Sunni 6 years 8 months ago Posts: 429	Microman, just so you know, your white screen of death search may not work unless you use an older VCR. After my 80's VCR broke in the mid 90's and I got a new one all the white screen tapes no longer showed the white screen or made noise anymore. It just cut to a silent blue screen and then when the screen was supposed to turn white and make noise it just switched to quiet static. Not that I'm complaining...
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gumbyman
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I remember this screen used to scare me when i was little.
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LivelyLorikeet 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 215	Hmm. . . I don't specifically remember seeing this, though I probably did watch a video past the credits at least once. I think, but can't be sure, that I just saw a blank blue screen at the ends of my videotapes; I don't remember the beeping tone.

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videos4ever 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 191 Globally Banned	MicroMan wrote: rirotostichi wrote: I remember watching my "The best of Basil Brush" VHS (released in 2001, I bought my copy in 2002) past the credits: The Universal ident appeared, and then the codes that came on the screen at the beginning reappeared and stayed there untilthe end of the tape was reached. What do you mean by codes? What did they look like? Try to upload it to youtube if you can. secretvixen, I almost thought the same thing about the alien and the window when I heard the beeping. I thought it was a "dinner time" signal to monsters. Those emergency alert system beeps scare me too! The first time I heard that tone from another room when they replaced the ebs tone in the mid 90's on tv, I thought there was an alien in my house chasing me, and I ran through the house screaming and I ran into my dad's room and then i found out it was on tv. When I told my dad that I thought it was an alien, he thought it was funny. It wasn't so funny to me, lol. For the people that heard the telephone beeps at the beggining of tapes,I heard those beeps on my disney movies, but they came on before the commercials and sounded like someone quickly dialing a telephone, lasting only a second. That didn't scare me though. It's probs a U.K. VHS tape, certain companies had "codes" at the end of their tapes!

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RetroKid82 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 2	I always thought they were rice fights... just a little added extra bonus at the end of all VHS.
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kayvee
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As soon as that MGM logo hit the screen, I pooped all over the place.
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Falcor 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 142	Yes, those "white screens" with the "EEEEEEE!!!" noise at the end of the tape startled me (still do, actually), when I'd fall asleep during a movie.
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abrindlek 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 82	I agree with Microman that it just signified the end of the film or something. Pretty much ALL of my old VHS's did that. To shotking, I actually remember the dial tone at the beginning too.

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ethandaman24 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 784	OMG, everytime when i was watching a video at school when i was a kid and the credits were on, i always told the teacher to turn it off. it definately scared the hell out of me when i was a kid.

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Captain Howdy
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Just watch "Poltergeist".
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beatlenik 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 200 Globally Banned	Dude, At my high school they play the school news on tv but when it goes off there's a white screen with a loud screeching noise before the teacher turns it off. They record the news on vhs, so I now see the white screen of death more often than I used to.

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MicroMan 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 674 Account Disabled	Sunni wrote: Microman, just so you know, your white screen of death search may not work unless you use an older VCR. After my 80's VCR broke in the mid 90's and I got a new one all the white screen tapes no longer showed the white screen or made noise anymore. It just cut to a silent blue screen and then when the screen was supposed to turn white and make noise it just switched to quiet static. Not that I'm complaining... It doesn't show it on my brother's VCR, but my VCR shows it. Someone requested me to look at the end of "The Land Before Time" VHS for an even scarier tone, allthough it lasts for 5 seconds.

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roygerdodger91 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 714	Here's something weird: I think I remember seeing the "White Screen of Death" in a movie theater once.
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MicroMan 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 674 Account Disabled	roygerdodger91 wrote: Here's something weird: I think I remember seeing the "White Screen of Death" in a movie theater once. I saw something similar when I went to see Nightmare Before Christmas in 3d, but it was a green screen and it didn't have the tone. What all do you remember from seeing this at the theater? Did it have that tone? I would have gone home with a major headache.

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roygerdodger91 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 714	MicroMan wrote: roygerdodger91 wrote: Here's something weird: I think I remember seeing the "White Screen of Death" in a movie theater once. I saw something similar when I went to see Nightmare Before Christmas in 3d, but it was a green screen and it didn't have the tone. What all do you remember from seeing this at the theater? Did it have that tone? I would have gone home with a major headache. Yeah, it did.
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NickRules
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I remember that happening. But I don't see whats so scary about a beeping noise.
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