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Deliberate VHS Quality
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Deliberate VHS Quality is when, to achieve a certain aesthetic, something is deliberately filmed in grainy VHS quality to make it appear older as a stylistic choice. Often in videos that try to mimic the quality of a VHS tape, you'll see a blue screen at the beginning, with "PLAY" in blocky white letters at the top left corner of the screen, and the ensuing video quality will be grainy and full of tracking lines. Occasionally, even the audio may sound warped or distorted. By definition, a video using this trope will have been created sometime after VHS was supplanted by the DVD, so the mid-2000's at the earliest. The creator either achieves this through a computer effect such as a video filter, or they find an actual VHS video cassette to film on; usually, the more warped and degraded the better, as it wouldn't be as obvious if they used a well-preserved tape. After all, VHS wouldn't have been considered at least passable as a video format for more than twenty years, even outselling formats with superior image quality like Betamax and LaserDisc, had it always looked so warped. Particularly with the advent of Hi-Fi, picture and especially sound quality on VHS improved a lot compared to when it first debuted; and of course, professionally-made VHS tapes typically looked and sounded better than a tape recorded off the television, which itself would typically look better than something recorded with a camcorder. As such, usage of this trope can be a type of Stylistic Suck, as creators that want the look of an aged and degraded VHS tape but are still looking for a certain level of authenticity will often purposely use a worn-out tape, use a VCR with dirty recording heads, or record from one tape to another back and forth with two VCRs, to get the desired effect. Video filters usually already have the video quality be exaggeratedly bad even for VHS. Other clues that a filter was used instead of the real thing include when the word "PLAY" on the top left corner of the screen never goes away, as on most real VCRs it only stays for a few seconds, and if the video is widescreen and not formatted for a square-shaped CRT television (as actual rips from a VHS tape will usually be)note Some poorly made VHS rips may stretch or crop the image to 16:9, which aren't the original aspect ratio. This can only be justified if the video was Letterboxed on the tape to begin with. That would make the image smaller, and therefore even lower quality.. Since the 2010s, this has become a way of establishing a time period as being in the 1980s or 1990s, in much the way filming in black-and-white became shorthand for the early-to-mid 20th century, and can be meant to invoke nostalgia. When used in a Found Footage film and/or Analog Horror, it can add a horror element by making it seem more authentic, though these days this is more likely to be done with a smartphone camera, unless it's supposed to be a Period Piece. It can also be used to disguise imperfections in CGI animation, making the footage look more "real", though dated. May be combined with an Aspect Ratio Switch to show a 4:3 frame, as VHS only ever supported that Aspect Ratio.note While widescreen VHS tapes technically exist with select movies, they show widescreen content Letterboxed to 4:3. This practice was used for nearly every widescreen movie on LaserDisc in The '90s. A "true" widescreen VHS tape or LaserDisc would either be incompatible with an existing player, or would look squished. "True" widescreen wouldn't become popular until digital formats, such as DVD and High Definition came around. Compare Retraux, Cassette Futurism, Raster Vision and Deliberately Monochrome; artificial emulating of old tech to produce a certain aesthetics. Contrast Static Screw. Related to Decade-Themed Filter. Contrast Crystal Clear Picture, which is fixing the de-sync between In-Universe screens and the camera to avoid Raster Vision. |
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Technology Connections: Alec puts segments of his own videos on a real recordablenote for obvious reasons, he does not do this with formats that can't record, such as CED and LaserDisc format (VHS, Betamax, Video8, etc.) when demonstrating how these formats looked. Alec put video of himself on a VHS tape and transferred it back to his video "The Impossible Feat Inside Your VCR. He also toggles from SP to LP to EP speeds to demonstrate how video and audio quality suffers, and why the latter doesn't with VHS Hi-Fi. "Comparing Beta & VHS on Quality: Was Beta Really Better?" deliberately uses VHS quality for obvious reasons. In DVD: The Death Knell of LaserDisc, Alec does this to show how little image quality comes through when Letterboxing widescreen content to a 4:3 SD analog format like VHS or LaserDisc. |
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Season 1 of The Eric Andre Show was shot in 4:3 resolution using cheap vintage cameras to capture the feel of No Budget public access shows. They had to stretch out the $500 they were given to produce the show. | |
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Captain Disillusion uses VHS quality a few times, often combined with an Aspect Ratio Switch to 4:3 "Quick D: Cup Levitation & Train Track Rescue" uses 4:3 ratio and VHS quality to show that a certain magic trick is "So old, [he] covered it in [his] pre-internet days". For less than a second in "Chinese Invisibility Cloak Hoax DESTROYED!!!", the background turns blue with a VHS effect when Cap's alter ego "Big D" talks about how blue screen is old and outdated compared to green screen. "CD / Interlacing Addendum" has scenes in 4:3 as part of its Deliberate VHS Quality, and switching to 16:9 and the style of a midcentury instructional video. |
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The film No was shot on Sony U-matic magnetic tape in order to make it look more like footage from a television news report from 1988, which is when the film is set. The use of U-matic tape allowed the filmmakers to seamlessly incorporate actual Chilean news footage from the era. | |
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Linus Tech Tips: When Linus inserts an LTO tape into a drive in "We got a $5,500 TAPE DRIVE!", the screen switches to 4:3 and looks like it was shot on a camcorder from The '90s. | |
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Top Gun: Maverick: Some of Maverick's memories of Goose are taken from the first film (chiefly Goose at the piano at the bar and his death) and are shown this way. | |
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The music video for Tessa Violet's "punk" remix of "Games" that she made with lovelytheband and Matt Squire has the styling and cinematography of something that might have aired on MTV in the 90s, and then also has the video quality of a homemade VHS recording. | |
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The YouTube Poop Adventures in Hyrule video "Hyrule Visits 1993" by iteachvader achieves this effect with a video filter in Sony Vegas. | |
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The Paranormal Activity films dabble in this although released solidly in the DVD era, particularly the third film which is actually set in the 1980's and thus looks like it was filmed on a VHS camcorder. | |
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Mother's Basement, a Youtube channel dedicated to commenting on anime, uses this effect in their Public Service Anime videos. | |
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Power Drill Massacre's overall visual style makes the game look like the player is watching a videotaped horror movie, complete with its menus using blocky monospaced font that people who lived in the VHS era's heyday might be familiar with. | |
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Death Road to Canada has scratches and film grain effects to further the "old zombie movie" vibe. These effects can actually be turned off if one so wishes. | |
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Yandere Simulator uses a VHS filter for 1980s mode. The different effects can be enabled and disabled in the video settings. | |
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Discussed in Tom Scott's video "How The 90s VHS Look Works". It uses this trope while explaining how analog videos acquire that distinctive VHS quality. | |
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Some supplementary videos for The Amazing Digital Circus are deliberately created with a lower quality to invoke the feeling of being recorded VHS footage from The '90s, as it's heavily implied that the Amazing Digital Circus is a computer program created in the mid '90s. | |
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In 2017, his second video on the SCP Foundation was treated as an exploration of an old VHS-tape he found, complete with VHS-quality footage, to create the story of a 90s company called "Dilley's" leaking SCP-information through the use of a bargain-bin tape. | |
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Xombie: Dead Ahead is presented as a series of grainy SLP-format videotapes during the opening and credits; the core animation is perfectly clear. | |
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This trope is pretty much a staple of Jack Stauber's work. | |
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The Blue Channel: The videos are made to look like VHS recordings with windowboxing and grainy flickers. | |
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A couple scenes in Turning Red (set in the early 2000s) are made to look like footage from a camcorder made in the The '90s as it is meant to show what Mei and her friends recorded during their fundraising for 4*Town tickets. | |
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Scott Wozniak's very first video in the Scott The Woz channel, The Internet and You (considered outside of the Scott The Woz series as a whole), is made to seem like it's an educational VHS tape from the 90s, complete with Totally Radical aesthetics and dialogue. It even received an actual limited VHS release in 2019 as part of a charity drive. As for episodes in the Scott The Woz series proper: In E3 1999, Scott puts up a VHS tape of himself at E3 1999 as a proof that he was there, even though he was only 2 years old at the time. The video ended up being fully grown Scott "reporting" the event, in a VHS filter. Borderline Forever opens with Scott playing a VHS tape of himself providing a tutorial on how to talk about video games for a living. |
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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon has loading screens with tracking lines and 4:3 resolution, in keeping with its 80's sci-fi B-movie theme. | |
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A Fox in Space is made to look and sound like a forgotten animation series from the late '70s or early 80s, complete with faded color and fuzzy, heavily compressed audio. | |
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The Owl House short "Welcome to Hexside" features this to go along with the whole Kitschy Local Commercial feel, even though the presence of Mattholomew means that it would have been recorded during or shortly before the events of the series (which is set in 2022). | |
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The promotional material for Thor: Ragnarok was intentionally produced to resemble the cheesy movie trailers featured on VHS rentals in the 80s and 90s, including the warped sound and grainy film quality. | |
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Steven Universe: Rose and Greg's tape for Steven in "Lion 3: Straight to Video" is presented with a lot of film scratch and even has darkened edges, to emphasize that it was made with old technology from before Steven was born. The tape for Nora that Steven finds in "Lion 4: Alternate Ending" is even more degraded, thanks to it being in the desert unprotected for fourteen years. "The Big Show" is almost entirely shown in the same quality as the old "For Steven" tape, even being recorded with the same In-Universe Camera, because Steven is filming a documentary and wants the footage to look as old and authentic as possible. |
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Censor is this as The Movie. The tapes that Enid watches are naturally '80s quality, although it's a mark of Enid's deteriorating sanity when it starts to slip into real life, with rewinding, pause, and other video qualities. | |
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Brutalmoose does this with his Mystery Tapes series, fitting with its topic of looking through blank off-air videotapes. | |
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Dua Lipa’s video for “Levitate� has a 1980s aesthetic, with lyrics in stylized 1980s fonts against a space background, and of course the look of being recorded on a a VHS tape. | |
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The opening to Nitro Rad's Hypnospace Outlaw review is presented in VHS quality as if the game was advertised as a product in the 90's. | |
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The horror channel ＬＯＣＡＬ５８ has many videos with this effect (speeding up and down, audio distortion), as they're supposed to be clips and Found Footage from an old TV station. | |
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This effect is seen in the Some Jerk with a Camera video "ABC Goes to Disney World!" in a fake infomercial for "Disneylandia", before Jerk tears the low quality off the screen and elbowing the letterboxes away. According to the commentary, this is done by burning the scene onto a DVD and copying it between two actual VCRs about six times before putting it back onto a DVD. | |
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CollegeHumor used this effect in “We Found Sinbad’s SHAZAAM Genie Movie�, reportedly a degraded VHS recording of the 90s movie many people remember existing but it never actually did. | |
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Katana ZERO is framed as videotapes in many ways: the stage select is a set of tapes, each death gets rewinded, and the pause effects and numerous glitches are likewise taken straight from VHS tech. | |
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The Belarussian darkwave band Molchat Doma used a VHS filter in the lyric video for “Zvezdy�. | |
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THE MONUMENT MYTHOS follows a similar aesthetic with its videos, with the occasional jump up to the early days of the internet in levels of quality. This is mostly due to the bizarre technological progress of the alternate timeline the series is set in, where several technologies stalled out past the eighties because of multiple incidents, including technological flagbearer MAIZE's facilities being attacked by an entity they perturbed. | |
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Some scenes in Despicable Me 3, mainly those that involve Balthazaar Bratt, were made to resemble VHS quality footage because he is a Former Child Star who was famous in The '80s. | |
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As part of a stealth ad campaign for Toy Story 3, a fake commercial for Lots-o'-Huggin Bear (the main villain of the movie) made to look like it came from a very degraded 80's VHS tape recorded off the TV was posted to YouTube. | |
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Mega Man 10 did this in a promotional video designed to look like a 1980s or 1990s era commercial recorded off of TV (beginning with a Vanity Plate for a fictional TV show that the commercial presumably followed). | |
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Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule looks like a cheap public access TV show viewed from a VHS recording. To really sell the aesthetic, the show will occasionally display scanlines and cut into some unrelated scene to make it look like was recorded over another show. | |
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The director of WNUF Halloween Special went so far as to copy the film's digital master copy onto VHS and from there copy it to another VHS tape 5 times in succession, in order to achieve the level of degradation appropriate for a VHS tape from the '80s. | |
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Infinity Train has the memories of passengers stored on VHS-esque tapes, with the telltale rewinding and fast-forwarding effects. The last two seasons were also given a light film grain effect overall, to emulate the feeling of watching it on professionally-made, well-kept tape. | |
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As the movie itself, the main theme from Kung Fury (David Hasselhoff's "True Survivor") was filmed in the same way than the movie, but with some parts refilmed with Hasselhoff as protagonist. | |
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Night Mind likes to pull off a special project each Halloween, which includes capturing the feeling of a particular style. In 2017, his second video on the SCP Foundation was treated as an exploration of an old VHS-tape he found, complete with VHS-quality footage, to create the story of a 90s company called "Dilley's" leaking SCP-information through the use of a bargain-bin tape. In 2018, viewers were allowed to submit horror work under the theming of "90s Nightmare". Not only were many short-films filmed in VHS quality, but the Show Within a Show these projects were shown on off in, "Three Guys For Six", was also treated as a work straight from the 90s, again, in this same quality. |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Pinkie Pie's '90s-esque rap number in "Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3" is done in this style. | |
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Computer Chess was mostly filmed with early 1980s-era Sony AVC-3260 camcorders. | |
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TRON: Legacy used this in several flashback moments, like Flynn's last address to Encom. Again, Justified as the scenes were set in 1989, and an Exploited Trope as the grainy VHS style downplayed some of the Unintentional Uncanny Valley aspects of the Digital De-Aging. | |
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Honest Trailers had a few for retro-style episodes, namely Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Captain America (1990), Top Gun, Hackers and Rocky IV. | |
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Twin Tribes: The music video for “Tower of Glass� has a glitchy VHS quality paired with a red filter. The video for this Goth for Sanctuaries live performance (Upir/Still in Still) is in a VHS filter and in black and white. |
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ContraPoints frequently uses this tactic during transitions. | |
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No Delivery and many of the other games by the same developer feature this aesthetic prominently. While the games are made in RPG Maker, often there is a VHS filter over the gameplay and/or cutscenes. | |
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Black Mesa does this for its Steam launch trailer, which is presented as "an old tape from the archives" of a promotional video produced by the titular research facility. | |
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A Summer's End — Hong Kong, 1986 leans into its 80s aesthetic hard and makes use of a fake VHS effect on the game's opening (featuring the word "PLAY") and ending sequences ( both featuring the word "STOP"), as well as a brief use to bookend the portion of the game from Sam's point of view, with a "REW" and "FF" to symbolize the game revisiting past events. The game's official also makes use of VHS effects. | |
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Kong: Skull Island: The Washington D.C. scene (which is the very first scene in the movie's main 1970s time frame after the WWII distant prologue) opens with a grainy 70s footage aesthetic when focusing on the historic anti-Vietnam War protesters, before transitioning into modern picture quality as we fully settle into the setting. The mid-credits footage of Marlow reuniting with his family just after the ending also uses a 70s home video visual quality). | |
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Control: The Oldest House, the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Control, does not let people bring in technology invented after the 1980s (smartphones explode in people's pockets). So despite the game taking place the same year it was made (2019), video recordings in the Oldest House have to be on either physical film reels or VHS tapes. The latter is used in particular for the "Threshold Kids" show, and the VHS visual artifacts help make the episodes even creepier than they already are thanks to their content. | |
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In the TV series of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared the Art Shift in the Old Train's song from the episode "Transportation" is done up in this way, making it look like some sort of animation from the 1990s. | |
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Most Cold Case episodes would use flashback effects to mimic the style of filming that was in use for the time period. Those set in the '80's or '90's often had this style to them. | |
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