- The Cassette app is a retro-themed video player for iOS
- It plays random videos from your past to help you rediscover old moments
- It has retro -styling, with a CRT -Video player and VHS tape boxes
Back before digital videos and long before iPhones, people would catch videos on analog VHS cassette tapes. Video excerpts would be caught in order and gathered together on a single tape roll, which means that when it came to see an old bond back from the years, you never quite knew which clips came next.
This coincidence and sense of discovery has been caught in a brand new iOS app called cassette, and it faithfully recover some of the fun of watching ties on an old CRT TV. Whether you miss the old VHS days or have never experienced them from the first hand, it is an enjoyable distraction and a new way to watch – and rediscover – videos that are stuck on your phone.
When you load cassette, you watch a small TV style TV at the top of the app window, with a bunch of cassette tape boxes underneath. Each of them is labeled for a year or collection that you have created in Apple’s photos app. Choose a box and a ribbon come out of it and paste itself into the TV, which then plays the video.
If you want to see a larger version of the video, all you need to do is tap it. When this happens, you will see it on full screen, with retro-style text that notices location, date and time of the video, all in a classic mono-spaced font. It’s a real Throwback moment for anyone who experienced footage like this this year that has passed.
Revision of the past
An important aspect of cassette is that the video selection is random. Tap a tape box and the app selects a video within that collection and you can further lean into this idea by selecting the Randomize button in the video player or by pressing the Take Me place button that loads a random video to your review.
You can pay ($ 0.99 a month, $ 5.99 a year or $ 7.99 for a life -time pass) to lock the option of choosing which video is playing if you want. But this coincidence is a intentional part of the app’s offer.
Kassettes Developer, who wrote in a blog post, explained the motivation behind creating the app: “Remember the magic days as we shot family events on a video camera? Later, when we put the VHS tape in the player, we would get a random stream of snapshots over time, a quick clip of a birthday here, a mountain there, then 10 minutes of a 5-year-old pull and pretend to go down the picture stab. With these forgotten videos, just like the good old days.
In other words, it is about rediscovering old videos that you may not remember, like watching a VHS tape surfaces of the past, which would otherwise have been lost among all the others stored on a cassette sitting on a dusty shelf.
It all makes the cassette a fun little distraction. I have given it a chance and have been presented to old Call of Duty Highlights, videos of friends’ dogs that do not behave, time slapes of musicians in a shooting studio and more. Without cassette, these clips would probably have been lost on time among the thousands of others on my iPhone, never to see the light of day again. It makes cassette an entertaining way to revise the past, both with style and fabric.
