Tape Deck treats the player as 80s hi-fi hardware instead of an overlay. The controls sit on a solid charcoal faceplate under the picture, so they stay readable over any footage, bright or dark. Cream keys with engraved labels press down when used, and PLAY lights amber and latches while the tape runs. Time is an amber LCD readout, the seek bar is a tape-counter ruler with a fader-style cap, and volume is a mixing-desk fader. Chapters appear as Side A and Side B. On phones the faceplate collapses to one compact row of thumb-sized keys. Focus rings are bright cyan, key-press motion switches off under reduced motion, and high-contrast mode falls back to system colours.

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