Videotape used in a sentence

Videotape in a sentence as a noun

I can pay someone to clean my house; why can't I pay someone to videotape my TV shows?

Yeah because that's how it works now when a cop says one thing and an accused perp says another and there's no videotape. Please don't be nave.

If you want to have some fun, take a dance class, and then have someone videotape you dancing. It's usually pretty horrifying.

Heck, most car reviewers videotape everything they do now. I think Elon makes a pretty convincing case that this guy was going out of his way to write a hit piece against the car.

I don't know what the truth was, but it sure would have been nice if there was videotape to see who was lying. As it was, it was the cop's word against the word of a guy who looked like it would be all to easy to declare him guilty.

Videotape in a sentence as a verb

I don't want you to have videotape of me bumming around the house on the weekend. An employer would probably prefer that their public image be a planned and staged PR event rather than footage of the christmas party winding down.

Back in the days of videotape there was something called "control track" that served a similar purpose. In the video case it was used mostly to ensure the video being read off tape ran as close as possible to the required video standard frequency.

He recorded on videotape something uncomfortable, true, and potentially explosive about a multinational advertising firm, which was in a position to cause them bad PR, which is the only thing that could conceivably threaten their billions in revenue and 30% margins. The only reason this is even in the general ballpark of surprising is that this particular multinational advertising firm has exceptionally good PR, and people want to believe that it would never do this.

I also walk around town completely uncamouflaged, voluntarily displaying my uniquely identifiable face and whatnot, and yet somehow most businesses can still restrain themselves and do not follow me around, colluding to enable each other to videotape my every step for analytics purpose. Sure, there's some technical steps that can be taken but there's also a social or cultural dimension to what behavior is popularly accepted fro companies.