I recently found this set of four photos in which someone was documenting their cat’s obsession with the television. No date/info.
@meanderingok @CatsOfYore It didn't stop when we stopped the tape, either, so I think it was coming from some electronic component inside. Maybe a dying capacitor or such in the sound circuit somewhere.
We dumped the VHS player and have been replacing the old commercial tapes with DVDs ever since.
We have two tapes our daughter made during high school, so we'll eventually need to have them digitized, I suppose. There are services that can do conversions.