end of a VHS tape.

[RedheadMetalC]

thats..creepy

[channel4squares1]

I have a very, very, very unusual way to end a VHS tape, the tape rewinds a bit and after a few seconds the tape reached the end, not the rewind bit.

[ryanasaurus0077]

I think I recognize this now: this tape was duplicated by Rank Video Services America!

[ericrichard7]

At the end of the tape, there is a clear whiteish tape so that when the sensor on your vcr picks up that portion of the tape, the VCR automatically stops the tape and if there is playback during that event it will rewind itself. The white tape at both ends is suppose to stop the spooling automatically.  There's a tape sensor on your vcr.

[TheInuYashaDogEars]

Holy shit what the he'll I DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER OR ANYTHING I JUST TYPED THAT IT'S THAT CURSED TAPE, RUN!!!!

[TheInuYashaDogEars]

I'm afraid of VCR's now.

[DeadRaymanWalking]

The WSOD is basically telling us to turn off the VCR and rewind the tape.

[MeadowlakeRoad]

Lavahead.

[krdybn]

the ring...7 days forever made me scared of vhs

[yuzuki120100]

On some of my VeggieTales VHS Tapes they never had this thing. It would go to the black screen after the Big Idea logo ended. Then it would go to a blank fuzzy screen or white noise.

[PreviewDude52797]

@SolomonFaulkner36 Some of my VHS tapes have that noise at the very beginning.

[LogoLibraryinc]

@SolomonFaulkner36 i've noticed that. little beep sounds at the beggining? i know what your talking about.

[HamonLord]

this is scary as hell.

[corbinpettyband]

@SolomonFaulkner36 that means listen to the read the fbi warning at the begining of the tape

[fyphfoko]

i used to find the end of tapes hypnotic :)

[GarrettBMXes]

This scared the hell of me as a kid.

[Stizogm]

Wow are VHS tapes becoming some sort of crazy old school scary technology or something? So many youtube videos about the most benign vhs stuff with crazy comments about it.

Although I like this video because its so true. Half-hearing the credits... drifting to sleep in that blissful state between reality and dreamland that you never remember - unless something wakes you up right in the MIDDLE OF IT LIKE THE DAMN TAPE. Should I get up? I dont want to get up. i'm still kind of asleep.

[Cubivore10]

That's part of the charm though. I guess you could listen to the menu music over and over with a DVD.

[corbinpettyband]

what tape was this from

[WinVistaUser2]

@corbinpettyband Jetsons Movie (1991 VHS) I have this tape and the beeping is so damn annoying. My parents tell me, "TURN OFF THE DAMN VCR!!!!"

[Jigglypufflove33]

Taken from Good Burger????

[jakesonlineworld]

On Australian VHS's, it has a rainbow screen instead of a grey one

[Kargaroc286]

@jakesonlineworld video?

[jakesonlineworld]

@Kargaroc286 Yeah, that's what VHS is.

[Kargaroc286]

@jakesonlineworld no I meant, could you upload a video of the rainbow screen

[jakesonlineworld]

@Kargaroc286 Oh, I'll try!

[ryanasaurus0077]

@Kargaroc286 I think he was talking about the SMPTE color bars. How said test pattern made it to Australia is beyond me.

[Kargaroc286]

@ryanasaurus0077 I think he might be talking about the generic color bars

[gforcebackup]

That's what happened to rugrats vacation.

[gingerdazy]

Taken From 123 Count With Me Sesame Street

[Chianagirl]

Mum I think the video broke XD

[hitmankgm]

i used to watch VHS all the time, and i loved it

but one time when i was 3 or 4, i put a movie in, and went to bed

i woke up about 2 hours 30 minutes later FUCKING SICK OUT OF MY MIND

some music in the credits of the movie woke me up, then the movie ended

then when i was trying to get up, vomitting really badly then i heard this screech, in the middle of the night, while i was throwing up sick.

I RECALL THIS AS THE SCARIEST NOISE I'VE EVER HEARD

[brandont2003]

i would say: fuck this

[DrPhilMusic]

yeah that was always a nightmare for me.

[3y3raven]

what tape is this from?

[HamatoKameko]

That used to scare the SHIT out of me as a kid. I mean like, I'd run to the tv to turn it off with my hands clamped over my ears.

Still bothers me a bit, honeslty.

[JacqulineX69]

Red and Blue FBI Warning Screens from Disney Videos

[creatureofthedepths3]

this always happened at the end of my sesame street vhs tapes. i was scared fucking shitless!

[NoMac90]

Never had this thing. Our Panasonic VCR for usual simply stopped. I mean, why should be something at the end of a tape? Isn't there a small part not recordable at the very end, thus meaning there's nothing before the tape ends? Mh.. Maybe european VHS tapes are different HAHA

[madmonkey4eva]

On my tapes they never had this noise.. it would go to a white fuzzy screen and stay like that until you stopped it.. I don't know if it does it on my video recorder now though

[Meanmanmartin2007]

@madmonkey4eva All the tapes I've had have either ended like this or stayed on the black lead out screen until the end of the tape is reached. Since I replaced my tv a couple of months back, the fuzzy screen is replaced by a blue screen.

[chucklevisionman]

I never new VCR tapes that bleeps at the end of them I thought they just had a black screen until it started rewinding again

[1happycats]

AHHHH! It's the White Screen of Death! I have to get out of here! (runs for it)

[youraftermyrobotbee]

To me this is what the end of mankind looks like. A white and screeching absence, slowly swallowed up by incomprehensibility... and then cutting off.

[Terryracoon]

@youraftermyrobotbee I can see this happening at 21/12/2012

[Meanmanmartin2007]

Out of interest, what would have caused the static to build up until it filled the whole screen? I ended up with something like this when I copied a tape and at the end left the blue scart screen on until the tape ran out. I thought that when static appeared at the end of a tape it was when you hit a blank portion of tape

[brettfoshager]

This video is blank. What's wrong with this YouTube video? I'm not getting a picture here.

[kargaroc386]

the point is that the end of a VHS would be normally blank. this however is not the case with this tape.

in other words, the video is not blank. if it was blank, it would not have any story to it. this one does.

[rayunseitig]

Yeah annoying.

[maurojas1234]

Mi video VHS de Dumbo, cuando terminaba, se pone la pantalla negra, y luego se ponia azul.

My VHS of Dumbo, when finished, the screen goes black, then turned blue.

[Manafichu]

@maurojas1234 HomeOfTheGoodGuys had a bootleg Dumbo tape that had a blue screen with beeping noises, but he got rid of it. The same thing happened to his Lady and the Tramp VHS.

[wileyk209zback]

My video tape of "Dinosaurs: a Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time" has this at the end. My friend and I are going to parody that in an upcoming episode of "Golden Book Video Killers"

[WeatherSTARIII]

I don't know. But whenever when I play any VHS tape, it only shows a black screen. From what I remember from most of these tapes, you can sort of hear a phone dialing-like sound being played.

I'm not sure what the phone dialing sound means, but it is mostly played at the beginning of VHS tapes.

[plateshutoverlock]

the dialing is DTMF control tones for the duplicating equipment

[mikedamirault]

I'm not sure what the beeps are for, but yeah, I do remember commercially recorded VHS tapes having a touch-tone sort of sound at the beginning, it was probably used to audibly program the VCR for better quality or something

I have not used my VCR in ages since everything these days are on DVD and Blu-Ray, so my mind kind of escapes me exactly how it sounds

[DrPhilMusic]

that always scared me too. i remember at the end of one tape, it wasn't a white screen, it was actually a scary sound, like a vacuum cleaner.

[WhatsAYak]

That's the one I remember...no wonder they call it "the white screen of death"! LOL

[SergeantLuke]

"TURN OFF THE DAMN VCR"

[princessdaisy001]

I remember that beep. When I was a kid, it used to scare me.

[chazzwozer]

So I'm not the only one who was scared of the end of VHS tapes. Sounds weird, but it's true.

[neinsudtexas10]

That doesn't sound weird. It used to scare me too. I still kind of does, but not as bad.

[newhenpal123]

I don't remember this, does it have to do with what VHS player you used? Mine always ejected the tape 3 seconds after the credits were over.

[feckingbillgates]

I personally used to love this sound. When I was six years old I would wait until 4am, climb upstairs to the living room, find a few of my parents' videos that hadn't been rewound yet and then play these one after the other, dancing to the scary whitescreen noise. MEMORIES.

[ansettnz100]

lol, crazy!

[Moupimoupimoupi]

"TURN OFF YOUR FUCKING TV FAGGOT"

[desertshore]

rofl.

[davegsucks]

01:13 AHH!! evil windows 3.1 is trying to boot!! that was creepy!

[poopskinTheLiar]

"DA-NAAAAAA!"

(program manager comes up, a notepad file opens with the words "YOUR MOTHER SUCKS COCKS IN HELL!" in it)

[Meanmanmartin2007]

I have no idea why but the blank fuzzy screen at the end of VHS tapes used to scare the crap out of me when I was younger. I'd always be sat next to the VCR ready to press the stop button.

[DJ5189]

When I was 4 years old in the middle of the night this used to scare the crap out of me! Now every time I see this I always laugh so hard.

[Sunkincid]

At this Point everyone in my High School Science class is yelling at the teacher to "turn off the tape". Ah memories. :-)

[kargaroc386]

so everyone in your HIGH SCHOOL science class was afraid of this?

[GDelva2003]

I wasn't

[kargaroc386]

they cut to black as there is usually nothing at the end of the tape.

[kargaroc386]

new theory: the white screen is light from the bulb in the telecine machine. the beep comes from the sound pickup (audio head) in the telecine machine running through fine strips of black and white lines on the audio track of the film.

for the black screen, the light turns off.

[ZilogJones]

The audio is just a 1000Hz reference tone. The grey picture and tone could have been recorded throughout the master tape before the film or whatever was recorded on it (for testing or calibration), or it could have been some sort of fallback signal generator in the duplication system when the source video stops.

[ChuckShitAtMatt]

why do you show only half of this? that is all i want to know.

[Kargaroc286]

was this on a beta tape?

[MaxWasteland]

Nope! See the title. :)

[kargaroc386]

was this on any beta tapes?

[Sammyt3hSnake]

It's the real thing! I thought I'd never see it again. :-|

[Kargaroc286]

my guess is that the signals were once all that was on the tape. when the blank tapes destined to be prerecorded were made, the manufacturers needed a way to check the quality of the tape before it was recorded. so they recorded this through the entire running time, and watched the signals. any thing lower then expected, and the tape is destroyed. if normal, then the signal is plastered with the video. the video would stop before the tape would end, leaving a small part of the signal left.

[Kargaroc286]

i think is's because old tapes like this were mastered in analog and not digital.

[SOADafi]

i ewmwbe that as a child, also waking up the next morining and seeing it 2! AHH!

[johnnyconsumer]

HAHAHAHA!