VHS copied to VHS copied to VHS copied to VHS copied to VHS... (VHS Generation Loss Demonstration)
I’d done this once before ten years ago, but I’d never properly showcased it.
What you’re witnessing is a video being copied to a VHS tape, that tape being re-digitized, and then copied onto the tape again... and again and again and again... a total of sixteen times.
I termed the original digital video source “generation 1“, but it should possibly be called “generation 0“. I’ve never been clear on which way is proper. The first time you see VHS is generation 2.
Results vary from VCR to VCR. This one behaved nicely.
I made sure to start out with a very colorful scene in order to show how the colors degraded.
Because of YouTube’s current video compression data rate bottleneck, there isn’t a good way to upload videos with this much difference from frame to frame while maintaining decent resolution. However, if you would like to download a less compressed copy out of curiosity, visit this link:
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