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I remember watching alot of VHS tapes when I was young, and at the beginning of the tape you hear something that sounds like "speed dial" on a telephone. Has anyone else heard this noise before and know what it is?
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Never noticed that on VHS tapes, but if it is similar to touchtones from a phone, it's probably a series of numbers to indicate, the batch number?, serial number?, date of recording?, or somthing like that. Just a guess, though.
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That was a studio testing audio pattern, sort of like the video testing patterns. This is how it was always described to me. But it was a cheapo reproduction if it made it onto the final copy (should have only been on the master).
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I remember some beeping noises and a screen of data at the beggining of a james bond tape.
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