Erase VHS tape

[rainbow606qh]

What is the easiest way to erase VHS tape please reply

 

[rainbow606qh]

I suppose you have not understood my question . Is it possible to record tv program directly not on vcr but audio cassette player I.e small audio cassette

the answer is no. and you are a spammer. I am 100% sure you know the answer because there is no Audio cassette recorder with Video input to begin with.

 

[rainbow606qh]

I mean only audio and not video. can we record tv program directly on audio cassette only audio not visual.

 

[Saga Lout]

Yes, with the right cables.

 

[ss202sl]

I suppose you have not understood my question . Is it possible to record tv program directly not on vcr but audio cassette player I.e small audio cassette

"What is the easiest way to erase VHS tape"

How can that be misunderstood. You asked about erasing a VHS tape..... nothing about copying to a cassette tape.

 

[samer.forums]

I mean only audio and not video. can we record tv program directly on audio cassette only audio not visual.

you will need a cable like this

https/www.ebay.com/itm/Monster-Prolink-Standard-100-Audio-Cable-Stereo-3-5mm-Jack-to-2-RCA-MP3-CD-DVD-/191915471803?var=&hash=item2caf0db3bb:m:m_um-ugQaLLp7kuqH9FRtGw

or

this

https/www.ebay.com/itm/UGREEN-RCA-Audio-Cable-3-5mm-Jack-to-2-RCA-Nylon-Braided-AUX-Splitter-Y-Cable/152635944637?_trkparms=aid%3D888007%26algo%3DDISC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D41375%26meid%3D65ea628c5c64493ea8d883e141f4a909%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D2%26sd%3D191915471803&_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982

or this if your audio recorder has RCA input

https/www.ebay.com/itm/UGREEN-New-2RCA-Male-to-2RCA-Male-Audio-Cable-For-Laptop-HDTV-DVD-VCD-Amplifier-/152079323459?var=&hash=item2368a25143:m:mBvnWclBf3Ouq4S6VBJrTGQ

 

[rainbow606qh]

Yes, with the right cables.

 

[rainbow606qh]

How to cover the tab in order to record the audio cassette tape again. Please explain in detail

 

[hang-the-9]

How to cover the tab in order to record the audio cassette tape again. Please explain in detail

Put some duct tape over it.

 

[rainbow606qh]

How to cover the tab in order to record the audio cassette tape again. Please explain in detail

Put some duct tape over it.

 

[Saga Lout]

He means over the two little square holes at the back thin end of the cassette.

The duct tape fix is the Mythbusters approach to the problem. To me Sellotape will do and if that brand isn't available outside England it's a clear tape, sticky on one side only and is used mainly in offices.

 

[hang-the-9]

He means over the two little square holes at the back thin end of the cassette.

The duct tape fix is the Mythbusters approach to the problem. To me Sellotape will do and if that brand isn't available outside England it's a clear tape, sticky on one side only and is used mainly in offices.

I just was not sure if clear tape would do it, I don't remember if it's a physical or optical sensor, so I said to use a tape I knew was not clear. Last time I remember using a tape was sometime in the 90s.

 

[Saga Lout]

I was more worried about the thickness of duct tape. The cassette is designed to fit in the tray tightly. Those holes in the back are there because the plastic tabs were broken off to enable recording so anything that sticks out one the back end of the cassette has to be quite thin.

Come to think of it, the holes have to be left open to be able to record over the existing content. This rather silly matter is getting more complicated.

 

[hang-the-9]

I was more worried about the thickness of duct tape. The cassette is designed to fit in the tray tightly. Those holes in the back are there because the plastic tabs were broken off to enable recording so anything that sticks out one the back end of the cassette has to be quite thin.

Come to think of it, the holes have to be left open to be able to record over the existing content. This rather silly matter is getting more complicated.

I think it's the other way around, the tabs are there by default, if you wanted to make the tape read only, you break the tab, so to make it re-usable you need to cover that. Unless you have the sliding tabs which I think some newer or higher end tapes have.

 

[Saga Lout]

I'm glad one of us still has a memory. I bought my first cassette recorder in 1972 so I won't beat myself up for getting it wrong forty five years down the line.

 

[Wolfshadw]

Just for clarification:

If the square tabs at the top of these cassettes have been removed (or are slid inward towards the center of the cassette), then the cassette was originally intended to not be recorded over.

If now, you wish to re-record onto cassettes where the tabs have been (re)moved, the others are suggesting that a strong piece of tape (like duct tape) could be used to re-cover those holes and make the cassette able to record once more.

If the tabs are still in place, then you can re-record over them as often as you wish.

-Wolf sends

 

[rainbow606qh]

He means over the two little square holes at the back thin end of the cassette.

The duct tape fix is the Mythbusters approach to the problem. To me Sellotape will do and if that brand isn't available outside England it's a clear tape, sticky on one side only and is used mainly in offices.

 

[rainbow606qh]

I tried to cover the two little square holes at the back thin end of the cassette with scotch tape both R and play buttons are pressed simultaneously what should I do. Please help.

 

[The Paladin]

I would like to thank the " Old guard with the knowledge to struggle, crawl across, and eventually make sense of these questions"

this trip down memory lane did not even require a blue dot to understand.. lol

 

[rainbow606qh]

He means over the two little square holes at the back thin end of the cassette.

The duct tape fix is the Mythbusters approach to the problem. To me Sellotape will do and if that brand isn't available outside England it's a clear tape, sticky on one side only and is used mainly in offices.

 

[Saga Lout]

I tried to cover the two little square holes at the back thin end of the cassette with scotch tape both R and play buttons are pressed simultaneously what should I do. Please help.

Covering those holes has enabled that to happen and, yes, it means it can now record, and probably already is. When the holes were exposed, those two buttons could not have been depressed together. It was a cunning way of preventing accidental recording over the original music.

@The Paladin - it may interest you to know that I bought a laptop in 1989 and it has very little internal memory. Anything over a two page letter had to be stored externally and that was on cassette tapes so a lot of mine which had been superceded by 8 track cartridges, were recycled into data storage tapes. I still have that laptop but it's internal battery gave out years ago.

Prior to cassettes, recorded music could be bought in the form of reel to reel tapes which played on large recorders. Naturally I still have mine and it's fifty years old - that I know because it was a 21st birthday present to me fom an Aunt. Vinyl records preceded that mode and they're making a comeback, rather from nostalgia than quality of the music which is as bad as it every was. Before that was the cylinder but I don't go back quite that far.

Proof if proof were needed that every Tech Forum needs an oldie. It's great to be pushing 71 and still have some use to someone and you younger folks can revel in making predictions of technology to come before you hit that age. .