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0 pointswashadjeffmad3y ago0 comments

That was a common "self destruct" mechanism for VHSes issued by courts and other legal agencies for sharing decisions and reviewing certain evidence.

One of the VHS archiving communities I'm in found one in a sealed envelope at an estate sale, played it, and then started a thread describing the content and asking if anyone knew why they couldn't get it to play a second time.

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Wistar3y ago

I played with the idea as one way to deal with a problem client. At the time I had never heard of the method.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointswashadjeffmad3y ago0 comments

That was a common "self destruct" mechanism for VHSes issued by courts and other legal agencies for sharing decisions and reviewing certain evidence.

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Wistar3y ago

I played with the idea as one way to deal with a problem client. At the time I had never heard of the method.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse