videotaped

Put on cassette

Videotaped means recorded on videotape, the magnetic tape format that dominated home video from the 1970s through the early 2000s.

Though videotape has been largely replaced by digital recording, videotaped persists as a general term for video recording: The deposition was videotaped.

Police videotaped the confession.

format

VHS

Analog tape format

analog · playback · rewind · fast-forward · tracking · PAL · NTSC · recording · dubbed · copy

evidence

courtroom

Judicial proceedings chamber

defense · admissible · exhibit · witness · incriminating · verdict · cross-examination · deposition · corroborate · convict

surveillance

CCTV

Surveillance camera network

privacy · intrusion · spying · stakeout · bodycam · dashcam · closed-circuit · timestamp · grainy · loop

archive

preservation

Maintaining something's condition

repository · catalog · heritage · historical · chronicle · vault · digitization · deterioration · restoration · archival

memory

nostalgia

Longing for the past

reminiscence · wedding · birthday · graduation · vacation · anniversary · reunion · keepsake · sentimental · faded

Opposites
recording status

videotapedunrecorded

Not written down

undocumented · uncaptured · unfilmed · live · erased

recording medium

videotapeddigital

Of discrete data

filmed · photographed · streamed · written

documentation method

videotapedlive

To exist or dwell

in-person · unwitnessed · oral · written · transcribed

Phrases
Family

videotape, videotapes, videotaping

Familiarity
Top 50,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G