White screen at the end of old VHS tapes

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Cashmoney9001 4 years 18 days ago Posts: 1	I'm probably never going to experience tis because I have a newer VCR/DVD Player. I wonder what that is like? [code]
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Sunni 4 years 17 days ago Posts: 429	Lol. It's pretty scary if you're a little kid and it wakes you up after falling asleep during a video. I can tell you that much. If you're curious, there's simulations of it on Youtube that are pretty close to the real thing.
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LOL785 4 years 17 days ago Posts: 217	That's just a control signal for the VCR to either rewind, shutoff, or eject. Nothin' scary. It's on all VHS tapes, it's just the old tank-style models from the 70s-early 90s that did that to make sure people rewound it after they were done. The old roll-type player pianos had a similar thing where it would play a loud scale incase it didn't have an auto-rewind to get people to turn it off. Records also had the blank track near the center so that people wouldn't just leave it in. Move on, it's not much of a problem anymore
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bassman21 4 years 17 days ago Posts: 4553	I never found these screens the least bit scary. It's just the blank part of the left over tape at the end. If you put a brand new blank tape in a VCR you would get the same thing. The tones you speak of are just cue tones as LOL stated. If you play tapes from old answering machines in a standard tape deck you will hear cue tones on many of them as well. ESPN, Court TV and some others used to have DTMF cue tones to signal local cable operators to insert local commercials. Nothing scary about it

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Dyzfunk7ional
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Why should a white screen at the end of a VHS be scary...
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Dyzfunk7ional wrote:
Why should a white screen at the end of a VHS be scary...

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Wind Adept
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I only remember the static sound at the end of my VHS tapes
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Wind Adept 4 years 17 days ago Posts: 1138 Account Disabled	DebrisStorm wrote: Dyzfunk7ional wrote: Why should a white screen at the end of a VHS be scary... Seven days... You mean when the T.V turns on by itself and the Viacom V of doom comes out of the screen and keeps pushing you into the wall until you're dead?

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Dyzfunk7ional 4 years 16 days ago Posts: 3942	Wind_Adept wrote: DebrisStorm wrote: Dyzfunk7ional wrote: Why should a white screen at the end of a VHS be scary... Seven days... You mean when the T.V turns on by itself and the Viacom V of doom comes out of the screen and keeps pushing you into the wall until you're dead? Don't know but one needs to be a scary pants to be frightened by that.

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Sunni 4 years 16 days ago Posts: 429	LOL785 wrote: Move on, it's not much of a problem anymore I'm not still afraid of it if that's what you're implying, lol. I'm sure if you were older back then, there was nothing scary about it. I was four years old when it used to scare me. As to why it did, it's probably because it sounded just like the emergency broadcast system tests. I also found those to be scary even though I knew they were just tests. I guess there was just something about that particular sound because I liked hearing the DTMF tones during commercial breaks. Today I find stuff like that to be just a funny memory and a curiosity of the past for others.
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elron 4 years 16 days ago Posts: 693	never was afraid of vcr whitescreen but back in the days when a television would actually go off the air would scare me. The station would play the american national anthem and then go to white snow. It was eerie...too many viewings of poltergeist

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theboywhokills 3 years 7 months ago Posts: 8	Shot_King wrote: I dont think I ever did that. However, I had a couple of VHS tapes that wernt THAT old and in the start of it (not the ending of it) you can hear beeping noises that does sound like someone dialing a telephone. My sister and I used to joke that the characters of whatever show or movie was shown decided to order a pizza before going on air. Great. But in the scary logos fourm, what was scary about the Nick bumper, Shot King?
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blueluigi 3 years 7 months ago Posts: 3365 Account Disabled	The only thing I could possibly think of about that type of thing that would scare anybody is if you plug your VCR to a set of stereo speakers, crank it up on full blast, and then press play only to hear that loud noise being played throughout the house thus giving everyone in your house (and possibly your neighbors if it's really loud) a big startle and a headache. Otherwise, then there's nothing scary about that type of crap. It makes as much sense as being scared of a closing logo.

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....or being scared by the color orange.
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bassman21 3 years 7 months ago Posts: 4553	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2DLByatsVo I wonder if this guy is scared of the white screens. Check out his channel. He's aspie for things that spin.

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mysticwryter 3 years 7 months ago Posts: 845	I usually just heard the dialing at the beginning of the movie. Usually at the end it would be black then my VCR would stop playing it and automatically rewind it.
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LOL785 3 years 7 months ago Posts: 217	bassman21 wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2DLByatsVo I wonder if this guy is scared of the white screens. Check out his channel. He's aspie for things that spin. Is this his favorite song? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo
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bassman21 3 years 7 months ago Posts: 4553	LOL785 wrote: bassman21 wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2DLByatsVo I wonder if this guy is scared of the white screens. Check out his channel. He's aspie for things that spin. Is this his favorite song? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo Yea and while masturbating to a ceiling fan

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Hazer_Synn 3 years 7 months ago Posts: 587	I was always pissed at the white screen...so much lost potential
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Martin2011 3 years 5 months ago Posts: 1	I've always been interested by this sort of thing. I live in the UK and being honest I've never actually seen a white screen of death at the end of a VHS tape. All the British tapes I've owned have either had a black screen followed by fuzz/static until the tape ejects or a black screen until the tape ejects I have several American VHS tapes but none of them appear to have a white screen of death at the end. They all seem to have the combination of a black screen followed by fuzz/static(which can be determined by the fact the tape counter stops due to it being a blank portion of tape).

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Dyzfunk7ional 4 years 17 days ago Posts: 3942	Why should a white screen at the end of a VHS be scary...

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System 4 years 17 days ago Posts: 74809	Dyzfunk7ional wrote: Why should a white screen at the end of a VHS be scary... Seven days...

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Wind Adept 4 years 17 days ago Posts: 1138 Account Disabled	I only remember the static sound at the end of my VHS tapes

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Shazbot 3 years 7 months ago Posts: 2882	....or being scared by the color orange.

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