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What Happens when you Copy a VHS Tape 23 Times?

submitted by pumkinandstorm

1 decade 2 years 1 month ago

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(youtube) What happens if you make a copy of a copy of a copy (and so on) of a VHS tape? This experiment shows how the quality degrades with every generation.

The copying was done using two PAL VCRs in SP mode.

(The video is Fading like a flower by Roxette)

7 Comments

Great song, shame about the quality

Ya think the guy that performed this enlightening experiment saves his pee in jars, too?

TheSofaKing

change DNA for VHS tapes and there you have the aging process.

heathen jokingly says...

What is VHS Grandad? Is it something you used in the war?

Every time I see you
Oh I try to hide away
But when we meet it seems I can`t let go
Every time you leave the room
It feels I`m fading like a flower

tell me why...

Tags for this video have been changed from 'vhs tape, what happens, copy, quality, degrages, vhs generation loss' to 'vhs tape, what happens, quality, degrages, vhs generation loss, Roxette' - edited by SlipperyPete

ant

AVGN did this too: http://cinemassacre.com/2010/05/26/vhs-generation-loss/

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