Why is there an eject button on the VCR remote? Don't you have to get up to get to the tape?

Answer 1

so that if the button on the vcr brakes you can still get the tape out

Answer 2

The eject button on the VCR is so you can eject the cassette after viewing while you are sat away so say after viewing a movie you can hit eject on your remote so by the time you moved your couch potato butt and got up to the VCR the tape will be ready to remove from the machine instead of standing by your VCR listening to the clunks and whirrs for a few moments before the tape exists the machine.
Also a lot of VCR makers try to look make the machine less cluttered with unsightly buttons (looks so 1980's) and more sleek streamlined design looking and many buttons are placed preferably on the remote control and not on the machine.
Finally, the cost of the remote control eject feature is very little and also if you have the VCR placed low down you can eject the cassette without having to bend down low fumbling for a little eject button that may be designed to be less of a visual obstruction to the fashion design of the VCR as possible.

Answer 3

Good question, especially since pushing RECORD on your remote when a locked VHS tape is in play will also eject it.

However, with all of this said - who the heck uses VCRs anymore anyway?

Answer 4

In the broadest sense, a "vicar". (from the Latin vicarius) is anyone acting as a substitute or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious"). In this sense, the title is comparable to lieutenant. Usually the title appears in a number of Christian ecclesiastical contexts, but in the Holy Roman Empire a local representative of the emperor, perhaps an archduke, might be styled "vicar".
In either tradition, a vicar can be the priest of a "chapel of ease", a church which is not a parish church. Non-resident canons led also to the institution of vicars choral, each canon having his own vicar, who sat in his stall in his absence (see Cathedral).

Oliver Goldsmith's novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) and the Barsetshire novels of Anthony Trollope, and in France Honoré de Balzac's The Curate of Tours (Le Curé de Tours) all evoke the impoverished world of the 18th and 19th century vicar, while the satiric ballad "The Vicar of Bray" reveals the changes of conscience a vicar in Co. Wicklow might be forced through, in order to retain his meagre post, between the 1680s and 1720s. "The Curate of Ars" (usually in French: Le Curé d'Ars) is a style often used to refer to Saint Jean Vianney, a French parish priest canonized on account of his piety and simplicity of life.

Many English culture figures started life as the educated but impoverished son of a vicar: Sir Francis Drake, Thomas Hobbes, John Henley, John Lightfoot, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Adam Sedgwick, Cecil Rhodes, Nassau William Senior, or Charles Kingsley, for some examples drawn from various intellectual fields. Robert Herrick was himself a vicar.

Answer 5

So you can eject the tape while you going to the machine to take it out

Answer 6

So my low-paid servant help can stand by the VCR and get it for me, but won't get fingerprints all over my high-end equipment?
Sorry, couldn't resist the sarcasm...I don't think there is a point. They just needed another button.

Answer 7

The new ones actually eject...it's sweet to watch. Just watch yourself: they're fast!

Answer 8

....you'll get up surely but by the time you reach the VCR, the tapes already out.....no more waiting...hehehe!

Answer 9

you have a remote with a eject button...why dont i????

Answer 10

man of course theirs
useless button never thought of that b4, wots the point,GOOD QUESTION