It takes a bit to get started and it's highly unusual after that. You may want to lose the music in the sound track.
According to the folks who made this video of a melting VHS tape, it took 160 hours in an acetone vapor bath to liquify the relic of the Blockbuster age. 20,000 photos later, we have a visual record of the process. And while it starts out a little slow, the footage eventually hit all of my internet video pleasure zones.
Gizmodo: Watching a VHS Tape Melt Is Like Seeing Obsolescence Happen in Real Time
It may seem there's some nostalgia but really it's like watching evolution in action with no concern for the tape since we knew they were primitive even while we used them. They were marvels in their mechanical action to get the tape loaded and they gave us something we never had before: private ownership of high-quality movies. Nevertheless, we heard the clanking action as they worked and that was definitely primitive when we were also moving so strongly into an Age of Electronics.
Good-bye to VHS (and Betamax) video tapes but they won't be missed and likely better ways of recycling them exists than melting them in acetone vapor but it does look oddly cool.
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