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How this works. The channel knob is real — click it to turn the dial one notch and skip the shuffle forward, the same as flipping through channels 2 through 13. The volume knob is draggable, rotating like an actual potentiometer and setting the video's real volume as you turn it. The two round buttons work too: Power toggles play/pause, and Bright cycles the picture through a few contrast/brightness looks. Clips shuffle-bag through your library so every clip plays once before any repeat, and roughly one transition in four drops into a "please stand by" dead-channel screen before cutting to the next clip. The corner timestamp is a fake VCR clock seeded once per session, ticking forward like a recording nobody stopped.

Clip library. The player reads its list from a Google Sheet published to the web as CSV — see MANIFEST_URL near the top of the script. Columns: id, file, title, credit, sourceUrl. Each row is one clip, and its title/credit/link is what powers the "Sources & credits" panel. To remove a clip: delete its row from the sheet (Google republishes automatically within a few minutes) and delete the file from the bucket. If the sheet can't be reached (e.g. testing before it's published), the player falls back to the local file picker below so it still works as a demo.