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one of the classics - Yamaha ProMix01 used for digitalizing vinyls, along with my CDs and tapes collections
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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.
Video: by Alan W on Pexels
Audio: "Synthwave" by The_Mountain on Pixabay
VIDEOBOY: a video player that feels like the handheld you never put down.
Remember the click of the cartridge going in? The two-note chime, the green glow, the back seat of the car while everyone else was asleep?
VIDEOBOY brings that back for video. Press Play and the film runs in full colour inside a little console. Press Pause and the screen turns into a four-tone dot-matrix panel, the way it looked under a blanket at 2am.
Every part of it is a real button. The D-pad seeks and changes the volume, Select opens the menu, and A and B do what your thumbs expect. Your keyboard works too: X plays, the arrow keys move.
Pick a cartridge from the shelf and slot in another film. Bright scenes, dark scenes, wild colour: the dot-matrix screen keeps them all readable.
Choose your shell: Tangerine, Classic or Night. The whole page changes colour with it.
It fits whatever space you give it, from a phone to a full-width hero, and it's built on Video.js v10 with Mux. It's also keyboard and screen-reader friendly, because everyone deserves a turn.
Go on. One more level.
Built FOLIO // LOUPE, a custom Video.js v10 skin and editorial screening room for Solheath Studio inspired by inspecting 35mm film strips on an analog light table with a physical glass loupe.
Instead of a flat dark overlay bar, the player sits inside a tactile cotton-paper folio. Hovering the seek bar brings up an optical glass loupe with spherical refraction, subtle chromatic rim dispersion, frame-accurate readouts, and an audio-loudness tick ruler.
Flipping the brass switch shifts the room from warm daylight paper into Darkroom mode with real-time four-edge ambient video glow. Pausing unfolds an angled paper slip for comma and period single-frame stepping and exact frame link sharing, while pressing C opens a seven-strip 35mm contact sheet streaming all seven studio films via Mux HLS and Mux storyboards. CSS container queries refit every control cleanly down to 390px touch screens alongside full keyboard navigation and reduced-motion support.
Inspecting 35mm strips with a glass loupe on a light table, beautiful reference. Cotton paper instead of a dark bar, nice.