Videotape is magnetic tape used for storing motion images and usually sound, as opposed to film or random-access digital media. Videotapes are also used for storing scientific or medical data, such as the data produced by an electrocardiogram. In most cases, a helical-scan video head rotates against the moving tape to record the data in two dimensions, because video signals have a very high bandwidth, and static heads would require extremely high tape speeds. Videotape is used in both video tape recorders (VTRs) or, more commonly and more recently, videocassette recorders (VCRs) and camcorders. Tape is a linear method of storing information, and since nearly all video recordings made nowadays are recorded to random-access media such as a hard disk or flash storage, videotape is expected to gradually lose importance as nonlinear/random-access methods of storing digital video data become more common.
Information stored can be in the form of either an analog signal or digital signal.
Videotape is the three-piece pop project of Adam Saikaley, Nathan Gara and Ryan Patterson. Originally from Ottawa (Gara and Patterson are now based in Toronto), the group formed after the breakup of their last project in late 2007.
Videotape was listed as one of a handful of independent groups on The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop 2008 charts. Their debut album, My Favourite Thing, has also ranked on the Canadian campus charts.
They are signed to Toronto record label, Bird & Flag.
In Rainbows is the seventh studio album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. It was self-released on 10 October 2007 as a pay-what-you-want download, followed by a retail CD release in most countries in the last week of 2007. The album was released in the United States on 1 January 2008 on TBD Records. In Rainbows was Radiohead's first release after the end of their contract with EMI.
Recording with longtime producer Nigel Godrich, Radiohead worked on In Rainbows for more than two years, beginning in early 2005. Between recording, the band toured Europe and North America for three months in mid-2006, performing many new songs. The songwriting on In Rainbows was more personal than other Radiohead albums, with singer Thom Yorke describing most tracks as his versions of "seduction songs". Radiohead incorporated a variety of musical styles and instruments, using electronic music, string arrangements, pianos, celestes, and the ondes Martenot.
The pay-what-you-want release, the first for a major act, made headline news across the world and sparked debate about the implications for the music industry; Time called it "easily the most important release in the recent history of the music business". Upon its retail release, In Rainbows entered the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200 at number one; by October 2008, it had sold more than three million copies worldwide in both digital and physical formats. The album earned critical acclaim and was ranked one of the best of 2007 and the decade by several publications. In 2009, it won two Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Special Limited Edition Package. In 2012, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album number 336 on their updated version of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
When i'm at the pearly gates
This'll be on my videotape
My videotape
When mephistopholis is just beneath
And he's reaching up to grab me
This is one for the good days
And i have it all here
In red blue green
In red blue green
You are my centre when i spin away
Out of control on videotape
On videotape
On videotape
On videotape
This is my way of saying goodbye
Because i can't do it face to face
I'm talking to you
After it's too late
From my videotape
No matter what happens now
I won't be afraid
Because i know today has been