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{{quote|'''Oz:''' What's that? Pause it.
'''Xander:''' Guys! It's just a normal VCR. It doesn't... Oh wait, uh, it can do pause. }}
*** Admittedly it's a very impressive pause; you almost never see a pause like that on standard consumer VCRs. No, seriously, have you ever tried pausing on a frame with a normal VCR? It doesn't really help in making things clearer. High-end VCRs have a [https://web.archive.org/web/20140413184523/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-04-10/entertainment/8701270617_1_playback-heads-digital-vcrs digital freeze frame] that remembers the last clear picture before the pause, but this never became a standard feature on home units.
** On many [[VC Rs]] at least, if the video was recorded in SP mode (two hours on a standard tape) you get the classic "fuzzy horizontal bar in the middle of the screen" pause, but if it was recorded in lower-quality SLP mode (six hours on a standard tape), it yields a relatively clear freeze-frame.
* Inverted on an episode of ''[[Angel]]''. After being handed a visual image taken from the ''psychic imprints of a blood sample'', Angel asks if it can be cleaned up at all. He's cut off by Wesley, who sternly states that it's ''not'' a photograph.
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