VHS Copy Loop Demonstration 📼

What you're witnessing is a video being copied to a VHS tape, that tape being digitized, and then that digitized video being copied onto the tape again. The process is repeated 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 will vary from VCR to VCR.

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: https://drive.google.com/open?id=18ynBOPFb1xP8WOInBMAJGfsqx93iXgq9

The music is Vaughan Williams - “Piano Quintet in C Minor” performed by Novacek, Yoo, Oudin, Kim, and Cahill.

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