- The cassette app is a retro theme video player for iOS
- He plays random videos from your past to help you rediscover old moments
- It has a retro style, with a CRT video player and VHS band boxes
Back before digital videos and well before iPhones, people capture videos on analog VHS cassettes. The video extracts would be captured successively and gathered on a single coil of band, which means that when it comes to watching an old band since the past years, you never knew which clip came next.
This coincidence and the sense of discovery have been captured in a brand new iOS application called cassette, and it faithfully restores part of the pleasure of watching bands on an old CRT television. Whether you miss the old VHS days or you have never experienced them with first hand, it’s a pleasant distraction and a new way of seeing – and rediscovering – hidden videos on your phone.
When you load a cassette, you will see a small CRT style TV at the top of the application window, with a bunch of cassettes below. Everyone is labeled for a year or a collection that you created in the Apple Photos Application. Select a box and a band will emerge and fit into the TV, which then plays the video.
If you want to see a larger version of the video, all you have to do is support it. When this happens, you will see it in full screen, with retro style text noting the location, date and time of video, all in a classic minivan font. It is a real moment of return for anyone who has experienced images like this in the past years.
Revisit the past
One key aspect of the cassette is that the selection of videos is random. Press a strip box and the application will choose a video from this collection, and you can rely on this idea by selecting the Randomize button in the video player, or by pressing the Take Me Wometer button, which loads a random video for your reading.
You can pay ($ 0.99 per month, $ 5.99 per year or $ 7.99 for a pass for life) to unlock the possibility of choosing the video of readings, if you wish. But this chance is intentional to the supply of application.
Writing in a blog article, the Cassette developer explained the motivation behind the creation of the application: “Do not forget the magical days when we have turned family events on a camcorder?” Later, when we put the VHS band in the player, we would have a random flow of shots over time, a quick clip of a birthday here, a mountain, then 10 minutes of 5 years to draw faces and pretend to choose stairs. These forgotten videos, just like the good old days.
In other words, it is a question of rediscovering old videos which you may not remember, just like watching a surface of VHS ribbon surface of the clips of the past which would have otherwise been lost among all the others saved on a seat on a dusty shelf.
It all makes a cassette a little fun distraction. I tried him and I was presented with Call of duty Professional facts, videos of dog dogs who behave badly, titles of musicians in a recording studio, and much more. Without cassette, these clips would probably have been lost in time among the thousands of others on my iPhone, never to see the day again. It makes cassette an entertaining way to review the past, both in style and substance.
