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I'm kinda curious what they meant too. Live media is available on demand afterwards these days.
You set up a camcorder aligned perfectly with the TV, play the on demand stream and tape it so that when it eventually gets removed from the streaming platform you still have a backup on tape.
Hah!
If you grew up with camcorders, you could use that verb for general video recording, even with your phone
Perhaps this is a regional difference then. I did grow up with camcorders (and used them extensively during university) but I'd never use "tape" as a verb for filming something with them.
To me "taping" refers to using a VCR or audio cassette to capture something from TV or radio. I suppose one might say "I've got tickets to a taping of (TV show)" but that feels a bit outside the scope here.
Language is a funny thing!
Never heard "taped in front of a live studio audience"?
I've only ever heard "recorded in front of a live studio audience". I see no reason one wouldn't say "taped" in that context, but I don't recall ever hearing it!
But it is not always available afterwards. Sometimes you have to capture that stream of bits yourself. Without a DVR that’s kind of difficult to do depending on the platform. Though I would def use the term “record” rather than “tape”. (Though you might store it in a tar archive afterwards…)
That's the thing, it doesn't feel like a situation where one would use the verb "tape", so I'm curious what she was referring to.
I think she was recording something off her TV. In her younger years this would have been done by pressing record on a vcr to transfer the images displayed on the monitor from the ether into the tape. This process was colloquially referred to as taping.
"I have to work late tonight, can you tape the game for me?" "Don't tell me what happened on the show! I taped it last night and haven't watched it yet. "
Haha, yes, I know, I'm nearly 40.
What I was trying to convey is that in the present day, where live stuff is almost universally available on demand afterwards (at least where I am), why would a recording be relevant step for the end user?
Recording devices for live media aren't even common anymore. In the old days we all had VCRs we could record stuff on (not that most adults seemed to be able to program the damn things) and cassette decks we could capture stuff from the radio on (and certainly not to make illicit copies). These days though, what would people use? It feels like hard disk based devices for live TV are long gone.
Of course, that's a lot of assumptions I'm making there, so chances are she's just talking about TiVoing something (or however one capitalises that - Sky+ was the thing over here, although I never bothered with it myself. Then again, I did futz around with MythTV in 2007.).
But still, I'm hoping there's something I've not thought of and it's a situation I couldn't have imagined, because life is more fun that way.
Lol true that. Life is more fun that way. We're about the same age and the memories of some of my favorite movies from childhood include the taped commercials. Only viewed positively through the lens of nostalgia, I've done everything reasonable to eliminate commercials from my current day to day.
Haha, same here! I digitised a few tapes some years ago and the ads were somehow part of the fun. Similarly though I have network-level and blocking these days in addition to device-based blockers.
I was rather interested to see that people have been hacking VCRs to get better signals out of them for digitising old tapes. Looked a bit more complicated than I want to get into, admittedly, but the results were great.
Ugh, this thread just reminded me of the pile of miniDV tapes a friend gave me to rip!