YouTuber records video onto a standard audio cassette tape

guest · Apr 6, 2020

Hacker brings video to audio cassette tape
April 6, 2020
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-04-hacker-video-audio-cassette-tape.html

Although last year there was an uptick in sales for audio cassettes at levels not achieved since the early 2000s, the format generally has been considered a useless relic of a long-gone era.

How can I put old audio cassette tapes from the Eighties to better use today?
So he applied his knowledge of Python and Java and found a new use for those 4.25" x 2.75" plastic cases packing up to 300 feet of magnetic tape. He repurposed them to record video.
It was no small feat. And while the video quality is not exactly high-def—in fact, it's quite low-def— the accomplishment remains impressive.

[...] Slyka was limited to a display of merely 100x75 pixels, a total of 7,500 pixels, and a speed of 5 frames per second.
Slyka's project accomplished higher-quality results. He was able to double the frame rate by interlacing images. He also was able to make use of the two tracks assigned to audio on cassette tapes by using one of the tracks to encode color instructions.
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While Slyka's creation has room for improvement, it at least gives us some consolation that those old, dusty cassette tapes may yet have a second life.
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