VHS copied to VHS copied to VHS copied to VHS copied to ( 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 redigitized, and then copied onto the tape and again and again and 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: