A What it does
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A1
The tape is the timeline
The seek bar runs through a smoked window between two reels. As the film plays the tape pack winds from one to the other, so progress reads at a glance. A tick marks every tenth, matching the 0–9 keys.
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A2
Turn a reel to scrub
Grab either reel and turn it: clockwise winds forward, one turn is about a twelfth of the film. The reels also spin twice as fast at 2× and slow down at 0.5×.
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A3
Keys that latch
Play, mute, captions, fullscreen and picture-in-picture are piano keys that stay down while they're on, with an LED where it helps.
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A4
Counter and cue
Time reads off counter drums in fixed-width digits. CUE drops a marker on the tape; press it again to wind back, or press it on the mark to clear it.
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A5
The label lists the track
Chapters show on the cassette label as they play, the way a track list does on a J-card. Settings is a ruled spec sheet; tooltips are embossed label tape.
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A6
Built to be read
Every control sits on a solid surface, so contrast holds over any footage (6:1 or better for text). Keys grow to 44px on touch, focus is always visible, and with reduced motion the reels stop and nothing slides.
B Keyboard
- SpaceK Play / pause
- JL Back / forward 10s
- ←→ Seek
- ↑↓ Volume
- 0–9 Jump to 0–90%
- M Mute
- C Captions
- F Fullscreen
- I Picture-in-picture
- <> Speed