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video tape

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noun

  1. magnetic tape used mainly for recording the vision and sound signals of a television programme or film for subsequent transmission

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verb

  1. to record (a programme, film, etc) on video tape

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Correspondent Amy Robach is heard venting on a leaked video tape that ABC would not air a 2015 interview with an Epstein victim.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2023

“We’ll have to look at the video tape and see what that looked like and he can continue to go forward. He had some positive moments and some moments he wants back.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022

As we went underneath the stadium to pull up by the dressing-room entrance, and just as the doors opened on the coach, that was exactly the moment that the video tape ended.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2021

It does not respond to evidence or facts or video tape or dashcam footage or indictments.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2019

Aimee had been too young to see the movie Clueless when it first came out in theaters, but she had seen it several times since then, and she owned the video tape.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin