I can't even describe why it freaks me out, like it's funny until the noise starts overpowering the sound, then suddenly it just makes me feel so viscerally.... Sad? In an odd way? Especially to have such upbeat, peppy music devolve into nothing but crackles, static, and buzzing sounds.
it's the lack of experience with such things that makes them feel so strange/scary, even as recently as the 2000s kid generation we had vhs tapes with occasional static lines and tv's with lower picture quality etc, crt tv's of the time would display static and scream at you, it's mostly people born after 2006 that are easy to scare with this kind of thing
I first saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the 90s on what was probably a 4th generation VHS, it was still banned in the uk at that time and I can tell you, that distortion really actually added to the atmosphere of it, it felt like we were watching a snuff movie
Exactly the same here but with a Clockwork Orange. Will have been a 4th or 5th gen and it made it even more disturbing than it already was to a 12 year old kid 😂
for those wondering what causes this, generation loss usually occurs when there’s noise between the source and destination. it starts off slow but eventually begins to stack. noise could be from the mixer or amplifiers and the like
In the case of analog tape, the cause is the inevitable noise and non-linearity of recording on tape. What you see here has nothing to do with noise added by cables and such - it's all because the VHS format is objectively shit (though it was incredibly good as a practical, affordable way to record video back in the day)
It's simply because vhs signal convertion makes things worse every time. Firstly it's mostly just case of quality loss because of bandwidth compression and decompressoon. When color starts to fail and we start to see left side being wobly it is accumulated time based errors because of non-linearity of tape motion. Color suffers here more, because it's very sensitive to phase errors. Third problem is sync losses, which occur because of combined recompression and time errors: vcr has problems with tracking during playback and trying to compensate, which results in recording became even worse. Then signal is so bad, we lose horizontal sync and have only sound and static, and then, finally, vertical sync is failing and we can't make further recordings
Honestly I find this more fascinating than scary. The wobbly audio is freaky, but it also shows off the cool shit they had to do at the time to make VHS encoding possible, and what happens when that encoding becomes corrupted and misaligned.
Every time I see fake (added-in-post) VHS degradation effects, I always think how much better it would be if the footage were run through a real VHS deck a few times to produce REAL generation loss. Because nothin' beats it. Thank you for this!
VHS generation loss doesn't work like that. Playing the same tape over and over will change almost nothing. You need 2 VCRs and copy one tape to another, then reverse, then reverse again etc. Those are called the "generations" and each recording will have less signal So, as you can imagine, this is a pain in the ass to make. lol
Oh yes. The real fun really kicks in when you use a pre-HQ or a pre-CCD recorder. I have one from 1980 and one from 1983 that records very differently than a lot of later machines. The video has a certain analog distortion not found on decks, even from a few years later. The 1980 Sharp that I own for instance, actually turns the picture white for a half second when making a new recording, then a sync line shoots down on the picture. Hard to describe what it is like to view recordings made on it. It is actually surprisingly hi-res. Almost like viewing 16mm, even in SLP. The Panasonic PV 1220 was a much lower end machine and provides blurrier video in SLP yet the sound quality seems clearer than machines built in the mid 1980s.
I just don't want to be traumatized for the next week or month like I was a year ago researching that video. even today I can't bring myself to listen to it due to the utter horror and fear I felt in the aftermath.
Gen 1: Original Gen 2: Sound not stereo anymore Gen 3: Some visible static Gen 4: Significant deterioration setting in Gen 5: Colors starts struggling Gen 6: Colors starting to fail Gen 7: No color Gen 8: Pitch a bit lower Gen 9: Picture struggling and shaking Gen 10: Sound inconsistent Gen 11: Picture mostly gone Gen 12: Sounds like it slowed down Gen 13: Picture almost completely gone Gen 14: Sound's getting staticy and warbly Gen 15: Picture only visible in occasional bursts Gen 16: Mostly just static Gen 17: No visible image Gen 18: Just about ruined Gen 19: Static with bad sound Gen 20: Hell EDIT: OK guys you can see and hear it with crystal-clear quality in gen 20. Good for you.
"i did not slept with the gym teacher yesterday" "i did slept with the gym teacher yesterday" "i slept with the gym teacher today" "i slept with the art teacher today" "i had s with the art teacher today" "i'm gonna have s with the math teacher tomorrow" "i'm pregnant because of the math teacher" "i'm married to the math teacher" fr
This gives me "Everywhere at the end of time" vibes. Like you see this fresh new music video and you love it. Over time that video starts to fade from your memory. It's last generation is that slight whimper of existence in your mind, hanging on for dear life. Fearing you'll forget about it forever.
@@polymations my brethren in christ, did you really expect the Internet to succumb to your request? Why would millions of anarchist rebels succumb to a silly little chain like yours? It's 2023, the Internet does what the Internet wants. (This is a joke.)
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Gives very similar emotions. Although this one is even worse in a way, because our generation is very familiar with Rick Astley.
Even the first generation was damaged, you can hear the hi-fi stereo audio track is constantly turning on and off. Also with a higher end VCR the 13rd generation is still watchable, just black and white and a bit fuzzy.
I can hear it using my headphones. It sounds watered down at first then sounds clear and then sounds watered down again then sounds clear then sounds watered down again then sounds clear.
Song choice is perfect! The first few generations it feels like really cheesy bubblegum pop. But as more generations pass it starts feeling more like melancholy for times gone by. Till it eventually fades into overwhelming static, lost forever.
As the video gradually broke, I felt an unknown feeling. It might seem scary at first, but in some ways it's sad... I don't know how to explain it, but there was an old TV with antennas in a very distant universe. It seems to be watching the video received from Earth on that TV. It was badly damaged while the radio wave reached long distances!
@@rambles2727 Exactly! It's painful to see the records of the past getting destroyed. :( I got a 1991 Hitachi VHS player from my grandmother's house a week ago. I want to play my mom and dad's wedding video with this, but I'm afraid the video will be corrupted.
@@Snufkin812 Give it to some professionals, they have much more pro equipment, and yes, you CAN damage your parents wedding tape from playing it on your unused and maybe broken VCR (e.g. eating your tape or making it dirty). This is analog media, and so the quality will depend much on your equipment.
@@philixer6769 yes. Asking the video experts for digital conversion is the safest and most reliable way! I tried to play the tape a month ago, but I failed to watch the wedding video because I didn't have an AUX cable so I couldn't connect to the TV. (I was born in 2003, so I'm not familiar with VCRs.) And I got an AUX cable a few days ago, but first I need to find a cheap videotape to test the VCR to see if it works. thanks for the advice!
@@Snufkin812 If you really want to do this by yourself, buy a cleaning tape. Preferably a non-wet system. Use it strictly with instructions - if you’ll play it for too much time, it may break your heads.
1 year later - You're dressing your pijama, since you're going to sleep. You turn off all the lights on your home. You get to bed and when you're almost dreaming, you hear a whisper: " _never gonna give you up_ " when you open your eyes you see Rick Astley, followed by several head traumas by a hammer. Then your vision starts to fade away, while you hear an earrape version of Togheter Forever, which ironically, you hear this music for all eternity.
I've done a generation loss test last night and managed to capture 22 generations, and somehow, it doesn't look as deteriorated as this. It's still distorted, but it's still in color. Maybe it's because I used a different VCR. I used an S-VHS/DVD recorder from JVC (SR-MV30) with a built-in time base corrector for playback and I used a regular VHS VCR from Sanyo (VWM-900) to record the generations.
I see a lot of people making jokes about EATEOT, but honestly if you relabled this as a fan project I would say it's brilliant. Really captures the sound of that album: a trip of nostalgia in the beginning, things slowly deteriorate, right when you think things can't degrade any further you realize that you're only halfway through, near the end it's just noise with an occasional glimpse of something familiar, then at the finale it's nothing.
This is fascinating. It sounds like there's an exponential increase in wow and flutter with each generation, with the subtle fluctuations in pitch becoming more and more exaggerated until we're talking multiple octaves by generation 20.
It’s like slowing forgetting a memory or a memory slowly becoming unclear to me, It becomes blurry, hard to see, sometimes even forgetting what it sounded like, It’s sad, but the human brain can only do so much.
Why do i have such... Unease watching this? I mean, the song sounds clear and catchy at first, but it gets more and more distorted. Until you cant regonize it. Its like... A happy memory fadeing more and more. The faces get unregonizable. The song gets lower pitched. The noise slowly takes over, until theres ONLY the noise. And this goddamn noise... It sounds so... Odd? Scary? Or just annoying? No, its unnerfing for me. A so catchy song becoming unregonizable over time until.... Nothing. Just. Nothing. No static, no annoying noise, nothing. Just a blue screen. If you think about it, thats basically what dementia is.
It’s quite impressive that the sound of his voice was still understandable up to the 13th generation, after that it becomes a Yanny/Laurel situation where your brain would complete what you really hear.
For some weird reason, I am very aesthetically pleased by this of seeing the video go from "Okay, this is fine" to "Oh, my God! What _IS_ that?!" Rick rickrolled into himself thus the video slowly deteriorated away and as a person with autism, this is very pleasing for me.
I was born in 1989 and this makes me nostalgic for the VHS days ☺️. To me, the voices sound funny when they start getting distorted. And the visuals remind me of how annoyed I’d get if I wanted to watch a movie but I couldn’t because the visuals broke. It’s intriguing and also a bit amusing to me younger generations find this scary, and I wonder what aspects of their upbringing will one day seem scary to future children.
A couple technical things. The color is encoded as a high frequency (3.6MHz in the US) signal embedded in the picture. This will be one of the first things to fail since high frequency attenuation and flutter is significant in VHS technology. Ghosting is the term for the lines that appear next to high contrast areas of the picture and it may be possible to mitigate it with better 75 ohm cabling unless it's being caused by a flaw in the driver circuitry itself. After several copies, the ghosting becomes the dominant distortion in the picture. As the Hsync signal gets more and more clobbered by distortion, you see the left edge wobbling down the screen. As the VCR tries to adjust the tracking (head/tape alignment) to compensate, you'll hear more wobbling in the audio.
Actually, VHS has a much worse resolution. The overall Luma signal is only approximately 3.4MHz, which is much too low to encode any chroma information in the standard NTSC or PAL formats. Rather, the chroma info is downsampled to a whopping 629khz. That's why VHS colour is so much blurrier than standard Composite video (although the human eye is less sensitive to colour than light which is why it's still watchable) and the low tape accuracy makes the 3.4Mhz only a theoretical maximum bandwidth.
This is the slow decay of the mind of a man, perpetually trapped in the late 1980s by his own love for the childhood he resented while it was there. Day by day he tries to recreate the era, the mindset, the innocence. But, day by day, the memories fade. The present looms over him like a dead tree about to fall, crushing him and his nostalgic mindscape, which he has now crafted from years and years of yard sales and dumpster diving. Alas, not even all the 80s paraphernalia and newsprint smell of the world could save him from his longing. The cravings only grew deeper while the memories lessened. But he can't give up--not until he finds the paradise that never existed. One day, the hallucinations and voices become too much. He furiously writhes on the floor, searing his back on the wool carpet. In those final moments of his life, he realizes it is not that warm summer of 1988 he wants back: it's the childhood. The mentality that one can only achieve when they do not see the world at large in all its depressing glory. Then finally, in the year 2020, his downward spiral reaches an end as he hits the bottom at full velocity, and his heart stops forever. This is the story of a man who tried to regain the unattainable: youth. Although his body was exterminated in 2020, many argue he had truly died long before: that this man only truly lived to the age of 16, and was killed, doomed to become a lifeless shell of a man, at the end of that summer in 1988.
0:00 The Grand Decline visit 1 | 1 - The grand hall opens wide 2:41 The Grand Decline visit 19 | 11 - Grand hall crumble beneath 6:13 The Grand Decline visit 31 | _ - Exiled from Gaia's reach
ok time for explain of this video. (i'm not expert in a english) this video was make in a hurry and without experience on digitization video cassette. 1. switch from mono to stereo. this is not fault of my vcr (parially). when i try rewrite this moment, i give a effect like a 8th generation. I decided to leave everything as it is. 2. lower speed sound on 8th generation. for record i used virtualdub. he change a speed of sound when frames out of standard (25i) to avoid asynchronous. behind the scenes synchronization is lost and software trying to repair this and i get this result. 3. color flickering. this is fault of my capture device. he uncorrect processed color signal on unstable record. on tv color looks is very well.
Things like this have always been big fears in my life. Especially on the audio side. Pretty sure it started when a toy I loved as a little kid (Kasey the Kinderbot) started to lose battery and became distorted. I could never look at that horrid thing the same ever again. Looking at it now, even images, give me a jolt of anxiety. Same thing happened with furbies later in life. Also, whenever a cd skips, it gives me major anxiety where I have to leave the room and the vicinity of the noise. It was the same thing whenever a wii game I liked crashed randomly, requiring a hard reboot (the game was Six Flags Fun Park). This video gives me anxiety, but I guess there are times when I crave it. I like listening to music that uses glitches as a musical choice sometimes. I guess it's just to feel something.
I understand. I've had similar experiences. The feeling analogue decay gives me used to scare me, but now comforts me in a strange sad way. The sounds electronics make when they slow down, the anomalies created by loss; to me is an allegory for death. For aging. Our batteries dying, slowing us down. Our memory tapes becoming fuzzy, distorted.
Experience the terror of a 1980s era Speak and Spell low on battery, and the staticy pitch raised voice as the toy goes nuts. "ELF ELF E E E E...". To sweeten the deal, the toy wouldn't shut off and it had a child resistant battery cover. I spent nights quivering in bed after that happened.
"Listening to a favorite cassette, and suddenly,, "THE DECK decides it's time for dinner, and then engorges the tape. " Makes you really want to hate those moments, until it happens again. ......and again. Then you are rescued by that awesome CD player, (That mis-reads the disk..... locks up, skips, and then all sorts of stupid things. Thank God for streaming services.
0:00 (Generation 1): Quality is good, but the sound switches between mono and stereo. 0:17 (Generation 2): Quality is lower but still pretty decent. Audio is completely mono now. 0:35 (Generation 3): You can see some static now, and quality is even lower. Sound is ALREADY starting to have problems, you can hear a little record scratch toward the beginning of this generation, and it will be like that from here on out. 0:53 (Generation 4): More static, lower quality, color is starting to go to shit. This is probably the last generation that's even remotely decent, excluding generation seven, if you're okay with the tape looking like something that was made back in 1897. Also you can start to hear a little "Aaah!" at the beginning, which is p̶a̶i̶n̶ the end of the previous part of the song. 1:11 (Generation 5, EPILEPSY WARNING!): Color is... What even is this? Is this supposed to be like some LSD trip? Anyways, colors are completely unstable. Things in general start going to hell from this point toward. 1:28 (Generation 6, EPILEPSY WARNING!): Color is starting to completely fade, and is the final generation to have any color. 1:46 (Generation 7): The video is completely black and white now. Quality is pretty crap, video is kinda shaky. 2:04 (Generation 8): Video is shakier, and is only gonna get shakier from here. Pitch is lower, now. 2:23 (Generation 9): Video is starting to get really unstable. At least the pitch is actually back to where it was, though! For now. 2:41 (Generation 10): It's getting to get harder and harder to see what's going on. If you listen closely, the pitch switches between where it originally was and what it's going to be. 3:00 (Generation 11) It's getting really difficult to see what's happening, it's just mostly static at this point. Again, if you hear closely, the pitch switches back and forth. The video seems to be slowing down, and the "Aaah" at the beginning is longer. And creepier and MY GOD THIS TAPE HAS COMPLETELY GONE TO HELL. 3:20 (Generation 12): The tape in general is getting slower, the video is getting more and more difficult to see, the pitch is still schizophrenic as hell, and the sound is starting to sound more like... how do I describe it? One of the comments on this video said that by the end, it sounds like "a VHS tape and a DJ's turntable got thrown into a tornado". Pretty much the last time you can even REMOTELY hear the pitch as how it was at the beginning. 3:39 (Generation 13): For the most part, I can say the same thing for 13 as I said for 12. 3:59 (Generation 14): The tape is totally ruined at this point. I mean, it already pretty much was back at the fifth generation, but this... it's a wrap. Sound has been going to shit, and you can barely see what's happening anymore. 4:20 (Generation 15): You can still the see the video, but only on occasion. 4:43 (Generation 16): The picture is just about next to non-existent now. Just throw the damn tape into the garbage. Actually, just completely destroy it, just in case. Then throw it into the garbage. 5:04 (Generation 17): You can still see remnants of the picture every now and then, but for the most part the image is 5:26 (Generation 18): Sound has been fading away due to the insane static. 5:49 (Generation 19): I... don't know what else to say at this point. 6:12 (Generation 20): You can still hear the sound kinda well. 6:33 (As sleetskate said, this might be Generation 21.): In a final act of irony, you can hear a faint "forever" at 6:36 if you listen closely, and if you continue to listen closely you can hear a little more of sound, which are just mumbles at this point. After all that, the tape finally decides to end it's misery.
I'm going to share this to my friend Sam because I know he likes Rick Ashley The way I highly doubt he won't get far into the video as it is just the same looping section
what's more impressive to me about this is that you managed to have *that much* generation loss in a single generation. I work with this media all the time and I'd have to *try* to get the quality to degrade that much. I'd be a little more interested in how much loss there is under reasonably ideal conditions, but I may just do that myself if I get the time to.
G1: 0:00 G2: 0:17 G3: 0:35 G4: 0:53 G5: 1:11 G6: 1:28 G7: 1:46 (First total B&W) G8: 2:04 G9: 2:23 G10: 2:41 (Picture starts heavily glitching) G11: 3:00 G12: 3:20 G13: 3:39 G14: 3:59 G15: 4:21 G16: 4:42 G17: 5:04 G18: 5:26 G19: 5:49 G20: 6:12 G21: 6:35 (?) Last interpretable image: 6:03 (i.imgur.com/wP8IN2c.png) Last recognizable sound: 6:30 Tape starts dying: 6:38 Bluescreen: 6:46 After G21 its just static, and hard to tell what the fuck is going on. You can hear a faint "...With you" around 6:30, signaling that remnants of sound is still there.
sleetskate Actually, you can hear the *entire song* on G20. If you put the speed at 1.25 and highen the pitch or try very hard to listen, you can hear it.
Explanation: Generation 1: Original, even though there are some minor jumps in the audio Generation 2: Audio is entirely mono Generation 3: The colors are slightly starting to bleed Generation 4; Colors begin to bleed, you can see lines Generation 5: Color signal failing 💀 Generation 6: Color signal is getting worse Generation 7: Color is entirely gone, audio has gotten louder since the first generation Generation 8: Pitch has gotten lower, some picture distortion at the beginning Generation 9: Normal pitch, noticable picture distortion Generation 10: Picture distorting more Generation 11: *AHHHHH*, also a lot more picture distortion Generation 12: Picture keeps distorting in and out Generation 13: Picture is nearly fading out of existence Generation 14: Audio messup at the beginning, picture is almost unrecognizable Generation 15: Audio and picture getting worse Generation 16: Only a few frames of the picture remain Generation 17: Tape sounds like its in a tornado as the picture is down to a few frames Generation 18: Audio super low pitch, distorted and slowed Generation 19: Picture is basically gone Generation 20: what you hear in hell
And that's all the videotape is? Can I throw it in the trash? Is there anything you can do with the tape if the sound quality or image has dropped dramatically?
@@Aleksej1994nope, if it is rewritable then you can just use normally. what decayed is the information when passing from tape to tape, not the tapes themselves.
Imagine you find an unknown VHS tape, from a long time deceased person remaining possessions, and you find a recording of that person that looks like 2:32.
I've got my parents wedding in vhs, and has one part of the video with issues - I can see snow in the first part - no colour at all - slowing speed and without colour - at the end only static and blue screen End of the video
@@tvsuncanilijek7477 no normal person would ever copy a tape more than 2 or 3 generation. This is not wear and tear, it's loss through repeated copying.
@@tvsuncanilijek7477 the user said in a pinned comment that the colour issue was due to a problem with his capturing device. The actual display was fine
Its so sad that eventually, every VHS that has ever existed since their invention will eventually degrade and become completely unwatchable. Its contents will be lost to time. Even people restoring and maintaining vast collections of VHS tapes right now will eventually die and their collections will be donated to goodwill, theyll end up in someones garage, gathering dust and mold, and losing quality as the months go by. A true example of memento mori.
It'll take a looong time for that to happen. I still have a few tapes my parents recorded off of TV in 1986 (they didn't stop the recording at the end, so some news reports got recorded too, making it easy to pinpoint the date), and they're still perfectly watchable despite not being stored in the best of conditions (cardboard boxes in the basement). Remember.. this video here is _intentional_ quality loss by doing something no one with half a brain left would normally do: creating copies of copies so VHS' inherent loss of quality stacks exponentially
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Congratulations
It literally got 1 million views not 1k views
@@silvermedal50 1k or 1kk?
@@silvermedal50dumbnuts 😂 it clearly says 1kk
holy shit rick looks demonic in the 6th generation
Make more tf2 videos we miss you
More tf2 videos pllls
Never gonna give u up
7th generation is more like a corrupted 1944 recording
its the teeth for me!
It's like a memory fading over time as the years go by.
It’s a dementia simulator😢
everywhere at the end of time
@@jojawesome_ that video breaks my heart.
@@BeeKay5150 me too!! It's terrifying
@@jojawesome_that’s exactly what I thought of when I made my previous comment. Big sad
What an ironic song to demonstrate generation loss with.
TheExodvs lol
well the video couldn't keep itself together forever.
It feels like if I watch past the 10th generation, Rick Astley will come out of my TV and beat me up.
@Berry Squadin i should have see that coming lol.
@Berry Squadin ... I can't believe I fell for that.
Vhs generation loss is basically the vhses version of dementia
When i think about it this way..
Yeah it kinda is. Quite sad in my opinion.
damn you kinda hit what I was exactly thinking, good job
is it also like when a modern video is reuploaded many times and ends up looking like shit
Who are you?
@@lll.u In fact, it is! The term for that is called generation loss too, actually!
I like how no matter how deteriorated the song gets the words together forever still exist
There's a reason why the song is called Together Forever
@@the.inverted.pyramid. holy moly please help my brain just broke from this
sincerely: @bowserboy2011 typing this on my dad's account
Poetic
Hope
6:12
can't believe i just spent seven minutes watching rick astley be ripped to shreds across the space-time continuum
RUclips is truly a wonderful place
same
“You’ll mess up the space time continuum Marty!”
It's truly fascinating to see how it slowly distorts into an almost unintelligible recording. Almost sounds like a race car on a track.
😁
He's really not giving up.
DelilahThePig
And he’s never letting us down.
He ain’t running around.
And he‘s never gonna saying goodbye
Kermitt yo mamma
...
The fact that I was still able to recognize the song in all the generations...
no shit its all together forever
@@tunafissh Lmao
Especially when is my favorite song of rick Astley
@@tunafisshLOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Well no duh it’s the same song every generation
I love how analog artifacts scare younger generations. It always made me laugh as a kid in the 80s.
I can't even describe why it freaks me out, like it's funny until the noise starts overpowering the sound, then suddenly it just makes me feel so viscerally.... Sad? In an odd way? Especially to have such upbeat, peppy music devolve into nothing but crackles, static, and buzzing sounds.
same, this is funny!
it's the lack of experience with such things that makes them feel so strange/scary, even as recently as the 2000s kid generation we had vhs tapes with occasional static lines and tv's with lower picture quality etc, crt tv's of the time would display static and scream at you, it's mostly people born after 2006 that are easy to scare with this kind of thing
but that's just my theory, if there's anyone here born after 2006 feel free to correct me
I think it's just because of all the horror games that use VHS static and 80s stuff to make it seem creepier example Five Nights at Freddys
"Together foUGHAGHver and ever..."
In basically every generation where the lyrics are understandable
and *uhhhhevaaaaeer
2 be toghuever forevear wth yuooeooooooooeooooo.........
@Mr. Marshmallow
*0:53*
AaAaAaAaAahH... toghether forever
I first saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the 90s on what was probably a 4th generation VHS, it was still banned in the uk at that time and I can tell you, that distortion really actually added to the atmosphere of it, it felt like we were watching a snuff movie
Wow. Luckily you never got caught.
@@andredavila3731It was banned from distribution, they wouldn't have done anything about a single guy having it
It could be more depending on if the VHS player had time base correction
the only authentic way to watch a video nasty
Exactly the same here but with a Clockwork Orange. Will have been a 4th or 5th gen and it made it even more disturbing than it already was to a 12 year old kid 😂
18th - 20th generation sounds like a bunch of cats getting angry and making noises
and atleast one cat is slightly possessed
@@the__professional2454It does 😂😂😂
for those wondering what causes this, generation loss usually occurs when there’s noise between the source and destination. it starts off slow but eventually begins to stack. noise could be from the mixer or amplifiers and the like
It's basically screen recording and it until it's deteriorated enough
In the case of analog tape, the cause is the inevitable noise and non-linearity of recording on tape. What you see here has nothing to do with noise added by cables and such - it's all because the VHS format is objectively shit (though it was incredibly good as a practical, affordable way to record video back in the day)
It's simply because vhs signal convertion makes things worse every time. Firstly it's mostly just case of quality loss because of bandwidth compression and decompressoon. When color starts to fail and we start to see left side being wobly it is accumulated time based errors because of non-linearity of tape motion. Color suffers here more, because it's very sensitive to phase errors. Third problem is sync losses, which occur because of combined recompression and time errors: vcr has problems with tracking during playback and trying to compensate, which results in recording became even worse. Then signal is so bad, we lose horizontal sync and have only sound and static, and then, finally, vertical sync is failing and we can't make further recordings
its like going through alzhaimers@@datmooshroomguy4653
Also wow/flutter of the VCR that builds up after it switches to the mono linear audio track
Horror RUclipsrs will see this and go on an Everywhere Before the End of Time rant about how deep and profound it is
While it's literally just how VHS loses quality as generations are made.
eat eot
i mean everywhere at the end of time is brilliant, i dont think theres any denying that to be fair
noits not what you sed is when a vhs loses cualety when is recorded to a mother vhs
@@AngeloSantiago-o2tI think you tried to say
"Not what you see is when a VHS loses quality when it's recorded to another VHS"
I watched this at 1 AM.
Well that was mildly unsettling.
I did it at 1 AM on 2 80s VCRs
Ok it just turned 1am here as I was reading your comment XDDD
Well...3 am
im watching this at 1 am right now...... H
I did it at 11 pm
Honestly I find this more fascinating than scary. The wobbly audio is freaky, but it also shows off the cool shit they had to do at the time to make VHS encoding possible, and what happens when that encoding becomes corrupted and misaligned.
oh hello there
Relatable.
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Every time I see fake (added-in-post) VHS degradation effects, I always think how much better it would be if the footage were run through a real VHS deck a few times to produce REAL generation loss. Because nothin' beats it.
Thank you for this!
I agree! especially because vhs has become so cheap.
VHS generation loss doesn't work like that.
Playing the same tape over and over will change almost nothing.
You need 2 VCRs and copy one tape to another, then reverse, then reverse again etc. Those are called the "generations" and each recording will have less signal
So, as you can imagine, this is a pain in the ass to make. lol
@@MaxwelThuThu Indeed, actually I thought they did that for this video, now it seems they used some stupid program to mimic what would happen. 🤣
100% agreed!!!
Oh yes. The real fun really kicks in when you use a pre-HQ or a pre-CCD recorder. I have one from 1980 and one from 1983 that records very differently than a lot of later machines. The video has a certain analog distortion not found on decks, even from a few years later. The 1980 Sharp that I own for instance, actually turns the picture white for a half second when making a new recording, then a sync line shoots down on the picture. Hard to describe what it is like to view recordings made on it. It is actually surprisingly hi-res. Almost like viewing 16mm, even in SLP. The Panasonic PV 1220 was a much lower end machine and provides blurrier video in SLP yet the sound quality seems clearer than machines built in the mid 1980s.
If you’ve ever wanted to listen to everywhere at the end of the time but don’t have the attention span, this is the video for you!
I just don't want to be traumatized for the next week or month like I was a year ago researching that video. even today I can't bring myself to listen to it due to the utter horror and fear I felt in the aftermath.
The decay isnt that simple in EATEOT tho
my exact thoughts, this made me think of EATEOT immediately
I don't have a short attention span. I just keep forgetting if I watched the beginning or not so I have to keep going back.
or if you don't want to be tortured with the sounds
Gen 1: Original
Gen 2: Sound not stereo anymore
Gen 3: Some visible static
Gen 4: Significant deterioration setting in
Gen 5: Colors starts struggling
Gen 6: Colors starting to fail
Gen 7: No color
Gen 8: Pitch a bit lower
Gen 9: Picture struggling and shaking
Gen 10: Sound inconsistent
Gen 11: Picture mostly gone
Gen 12: Sounds like it slowed down
Gen 13: Picture almost completely gone
Gen 14: Sound's getting staticy and warbly
Gen 15: Picture only visible in occasional bursts
Gen 16: Mostly just static
Gen 17: No visible image
Gen 18: Just about ruined
Gen 19: Static with bad sound
Gen 20: Hell
EDIT: OK guys you can see and hear it with crystal-clear quality in gen 20. Good for you.
Robert Ivey Gen:20 the VCR died
Robert Ivey I laughed really hard at "Gen 20: *_hell_*
Well if you saw gen 20 first you wouldn't understand what's going on
Robert Ivey that's not what I meant,I read the whole thing. I just found "hell" funny. Not in a doubting sense,but in a comedy sense...?
I was talking to sleetskate
the "together forÆver" kills me every time XD
*THE MEANING OF THE FBI WARNING SCREEN:*
That Guy this is why pirated VHS is are so shitty because as you copy the tape it gets more and more deteriorated
More and more corrupted until it becomes a demonic mess like the end of this video became
Should be the AMBULANCE WARNING SCREEN
INTERPOL has expressed its concern about video piracy...so we've ensured this thing will become the stuff of nightmares if you copy it too many times.
rick was in a band called FBI
exactly how a gossip spreads.
Exactly
fr
"i did not slept with the gym teacher yesterday"
"i did slept with the gym teacher yesterday"
"i slept with the gym teacher today"
"i slept with the art teacher today"
"i had s with the art teacher today"
"i'm gonna have s with the math teacher tomorrow"
"i'm pregnant because of the math teacher"
"i'm married to the math teacher"
fr
This gives me "Everywhere at the end of time" vibes.
Like you see this fresh new music video and you love it.
Over time that video starts to fade from your memory.
It's last generation is that slight whimper of existence in your mind, hanging on for dear life. Fearing you'll forget about it forever.
2 minutes ago
:((
i thought people were gonna start a chain but ok i guess...
@@polymations my brethren in christ, did you really expect the Internet to succumb to your request? Why would millions of anarchist rebels succumb to a silly little chain like yours? It's 2023, the Internet does what the Internet wants.
(This is a joke.)
Together at the end of forever
With each generation the tape did in fact:
Give up
Let you down
Run around
Hurt you
the picture let us down but the audio never gave up
😂
it was degraded but i heard every word
By the end it sounds like a VHS tape and a DJ's turntable got thrown into a tornado and it opened the depths of hell.
At what generation does the Japanese chick climb out of the well?
oh no
Welcome to 1996 and twister
This is sort of like Everywhere at the End of Time but instead of 20's music it's from the 80's.
Nowhere at the millenium of space?
he doesn't know about nowhere at the millennium of space redux
@@salsadamonkey and it’s use of THIS in Y5 and Y7
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Gives very similar emotions. Although this one is even worse in a way, because our generation is very familiar with Rick Astley.
Globglogabgalab is the M&M's
Even the first generation was damaged, you can hear the hi-fi stereo audio track is constantly turning on and off.
Also with a higher end VCR the 13rd generation is still watchable, just black and white and a bit fuzzy.
With hi-fi sound all right, this is my mistake when I was recording video on a computer
@May's Music I would love a remake
I can hear it using my headphones.
It sounds watered down at first then sounds clear and then sounds watered down again then sounds clear then sounds watered down again then sounds clear.
Once you go Hi-Fi, ya never go back 😉
@@retrocysper3709it is going from mono (1 mixed down audio channel) to stereo (2, left and right)
Past the tenth generation it feels like the tape was recovered from a flood or storm
Song choice is perfect! The first few generations it feels like really cheesy bubblegum pop. But as more generations pass it starts feeling more like melancholy for times gone by. Till it eventually fades into overwhelming static, lost forever.
What is a cheesy bubblegum pop
@@Minecraft84896Bubblegum pop is basically pop music marketed for adolescents
@@ChillOki cool
the name couldnt be named better
As the video gradually broke, I felt an unknown feeling. It might seem scary at first, but in some ways it's sad...
I don't know how to explain it, but there was an old TV with antennas in a very distant universe.
It seems to be watching the video received from Earth on that TV. It was badly damaged while the radio wave reached long distances!
It reminds me of dementia. Like someone's mind wasting away. Something that used to exist reduced to traces and scraps. Ozymandias
@@rambles2727 Exactly! It's painful to see the records of the past getting destroyed. :(
I got a 1991 Hitachi VHS player from my grandmother's house a week ago.
I want to play my mom and dad's wedding video with this, but I'm afraid the video will be corrupted.
@@Snufkin812 Give it to some professionals, they have much more pro equipment, and yes, you CAN damage your parents wedding tape from playing it on your unused and maybe broken VCR (e.g. eating your tape or making it dirty). This is analog media, and so the quality will depend much on your equipment.
@@philixer6769 yes. Asking the video experts for digital conversion is the safest and most reliable way!
I tried to play the tape a month ago, but I failed to watch the wedding video because I didn't have an AUX cable so I couldn't connect to the TV. (I was born in 2003, so I'm not familiar with VCRs.)
And I got an AUX cable a few days ago, but first I need to find a cheap videotape to test the VCR to see if it works.
thanks for the advice!
@@Snufkin812 If you really want to do this by yourself, buy a cleaning tape. Preferably a non-wet system. Use it strictly with instructions - if you’ll play it for too much time, it may break your heads.
This is what it sounds like when you try to kill Rick Astley with a hammer. You just pound his head over and over until he finally can't sing no more.
VHS holy shit XD
VHS jesus christ
n e v e r g o n n a g i v e y o u u p
1 year later - You're dressing your pijama, since you're going to sleep. You turn off all the lights on your home. You get to bed and when you're almost dreaming, you hear a whisper: " _never gonna give you up_ " when you open your eyes you see Rick Astley, followed by several head traumas by a hammer. Then your vision starts to fade away, while you hear an earrape version of Togheter Forever, which ironically, you hear this music for all eternity.
this makes me sad. don't hurt rick
The VHS might have given us up, but Rick never did.
I've done a generation loss test last night and managed to capture 22 generations, and somehow, it doesn't look as deteriorated as this. It's still distorted, but it's still in color. Maybe it's because I used a different VCR. I used an S-VHS/DVD recorder from JVC (SR-MV30) with a built-in time base corrector for playback and I used a regular VHS VCR from Sanyo (VWM-900) to record the generations.
The brighter and more colourful the tape is the the longer it takes to degrade
@@Gfgte You saying this video didn't start off bright and colorful?
Time base correction does a lot to keep the picture from jumping around and losing sync.
Yeah i think the time base corrector kept it from degrading more.
This was probably recorded in SLP just to make it degrade faster
This is interesting. By generation 15, I'm not afraid to die.
...AWESOME
CORRUPTED BY THE DARKNESS NOW YOU FALL INTO AN ENDLESS SLEEP
You should.
@@banjogyro wtf
Together forEGHEVer and never to part-
ARRARARRR, TogeRRther forEREREHRHRRRver and never to paRrRt
AAAaaAAaAaaaaaaaaaAaAAaaaa * static * _forever_ * static *
AaaaAaaa svszszsvzvavsvzSVZVSVZVSVZVSSSSACCSCCS...
toGether fORever and eVEr
@@youareoneant Me watching the tv: NO TOGETHER FOREVER!
This video is like the decline of Kmart
in australia kmart is literally everywhere
6:32 is the actual last recognizable sound, saying; “ŴĮŤħ ŶØŮ…” then, the tape dies.
how do you hear that
Put it at 1.25x speed and you’ll kinda hear it
Its rly faint
@@OfficialBikeMan oh thanks! hear it now
Np,
I see a lot of people making jokes about EATEOT, but honestly if you relabled this as a fan project I would say it's brilliant. Really captures the sound of that album: a trip of nostalgia in the beginning, things slowly deteriorate, right when you think things can't degrade any further you realize that you're only halfway through, near the end it's just noise with an occasional glimpse of something familiar, then at the finale it's nothing.
but thist is rink Ashley
i forgot what EatEot standed for 💀
@@AntonioPlays300 Everywhere At The End Of Time. A 6 hour long album about the stages of dementia
Everywhere at the end of Rick Astley.
@@graceanderson8731 thx
This is fascinating. It sounds like there's an exponential increase in wow and flutter with each generation, with the subtle fluctuations in pitch becoming more and more exaggerated until we're talking multiple octaves by generation 20.
It’s like slowing forgetting a memory or a memory slowly becoming unclear to me,
It becomes blurry, hard to see, sometimes even forgetting what it sounded like,
It’s sad, but the human brain can only do so much.
The more generations pass, the more it feels like analog horror.
no way analog media is like analog horror?!?!?!?!
gen z discovering the mandela files didn't invent vhs distortion:
@@shubumani dont want to be that guy but it’s called “mandela catalogue” sorry if I sound like a nerd
@@ZaTheLean i misspelled it on purpose
People really are getting mad in the replies 😂
4:11 cat that does not want to take a walk
1:47 1960’s Vintage TV
0:53 1970’s Vintage TV
0:18 1980’s Vintage TV
0:00 1990’s Vintage TV
this comment is underrated
in the 1950's color tv was already invented
@@yanez_exe3292true but it was really rare until the late 1960s.
@@yanez_exe3292 yeah but it became largely popular in the 70s when the price of them came down overtime
8th generation has the perfect pitch and idk how to explain why.
3:20 If this VHS is discovered as a relic 500 years from now, it will look like this.
What is that weird "Aaaaahhh" sound Rick makes at the start of every loop from the 7th generation onward?
I think that's just from the previous part of the song that's right before the start of the recording.
Pain.
The ending of the line “I want you for the rest of my life” right before the chorus.
Well friend, that's what we call:
*pain*
TheRDJ64 I thought it was the “ever to part-“ that got cut off and replayed?
I feel like this is the kind of video that'll blow up randomly in a few years.
How the hell are you here
@@baronbrrrrett how the hell are *you* here?
@@Bandikit I'm everywhere 😉
@@baronbrrrrett*writes your name in my notebook*
Hm
6:15 xen wants their houndeyes back
half life
@@jefferybarnettHeadcrab
@@ChillOki Coffee cup :)
@@breen-posting ridiculous ties
Why do i have such... Unease watching this? I mean, the song sounds clear and catchy at first, but it gets more and more distorted. Until you cant regonize it. Its like... A happy memory fadeing more and more. The faces get unregonizable. The song gets lower pitched. The noise slowly takes over, until theres ONLY the noise. And this goddamn noise... It sounds so... Odd? Scary? Or just annoying? No, its unnerfing for me. A so catchy song becoming unregonizable over time until.... Nothing. Just. Nothing. No static, no annoying noise, nothing. Just a blue screen. If you think about it, thats basically what dementia is.
dude nobody cares lmao
at the end, that "memory" isnt a memory anymore. its just a blank slate to be replaced with a new one
Does this count as a Rickroll...?
Brillemeister No, because it's the song Together Forever.
I guess people are never gonna give the Rickroll up.
What if you sent someone the 20th generation version of this, would you be rickrolling them without them ever even knowing?
Brillemeister no because this together forever not never going to give you up
Brillemeister no it’s a diffrent song
It’s quite impressive that the sound of his voice was still understandable up to the 13th generation, after that it becomes a Yanny/Laurel situation where your brain would complete what you really hear.
I was able to understand it until gen 21
@@billierishious i was able to make it to gen 30. get your ears checked
I can somewhat hear it at gen 14
@@222o-u3tshut up superman
I understood until gen 19 :/
For some weird reason, I am very aesthetically pleased by this of seeing the video go from "Okay, this is fine" to "Oh, my God! What _IS_ that?!"
Rick rickrolled into himself thus the video slowly deteriorated away and as a person with autism, this is very pleasing for me.
yea
As an autistic person I also find it oddly aesthetic. It's just something about it that feels like....someone tearing through everything once good.
Yup! It's that good feeling, honestly.
I'm autistic too and got the exact same feeling you're talking about
It's weirdly satisfying but also spooky, idk how to describe it but I like it
Huh!
imagine if humans in the future find this VHS tape in 6th gen loss and that's the only sign of the 20th century
I was born in 1989 and this makes me nostalgic for the VHS days ☺️. To me, the voices sound funny when they start getting distorted. And the visuals remind me of how annoyed I’d get if I wanted to watch a movie but I couldn’t because the visuals broke. It’s intriguing and also a bit amusing to me younger generations find this scary, and I wonder what aspects of their upbringing will one day seem scary to future children.
god I can't imagine a kid in the year 2050 being scared at a modern (in todays time) pc lagging, and they'd call it something like "digital horror" 😂
@@Eye5x5 well, we already have the blue screen of death.
@@brunnomenxa right lol
@@Eye5x5 that is already happening
@@Eye5x5low bitrate videos
A couple technical things. The color is encoded as a high frequency (3.6MHz in the US) signal embedded in the picture. This will be one of the first things to fail since high frequency attenuation and flutter is significant in VHS technology. Ghosting is the term for the lines that appear next to high contrast areas of the picture and it may be possible to mitigate it with better 75 ohm cabling unless it's being caused by a flaw in the driver circuitry itself. After several copies, the ghosting becomes the dominant distortion in the picture. As the Hsync signal gets more and more clobbered by distortion, you see the left edge wobbling down the screen. As the VCR tries to adjust the tracking (head/tape alignment) to compensate, you'll hear more wobbling in the audio.
Actually, VHS has a much worse resolution. The overall Luma signal is only approximately 3.4MHz, which is much too low to encode any chroma information in the standard NTSC or PAL formats. Rather, the chroma info is downsampled to a whopping 629khz. That's why VHS colour is so much blurrier than standard Composite video (although the human eye is less sensitive to colour than light which is why it's still watchable) and the low tape accuracy makes the 3.4Mhz only a theoretical maximum bandwidth.
yep the recording vcr tries to track but it speeds up the head drum causing the audio to slow down
I imagine this is what dying very slowly and going to hell is like
This is the slow decay of the mind of a man, perpetually trapped in the late 1980s by his own love for the childhood he resented while it was there. Day by day he tries to recreate the era, the mindset, the innocence. But, day by day, the memories fade. The present looms over him like a dead tree about to fall, crushing him and his nostalgic mindscape, which he has now crafted from years and years of yard sales and dumpster diving. Alas, not even all the 80s paraphernalia and newsprint smell of the world could save him from his longing. The cravings only grew deeper while the memories lessened. But he can't give up--not until he finds the paradise that never existed.
One day, the hallucinations and voices become too much. He furiously writhes on the floor, searing his back on the wool carpet. In those final moments of his life, he realizes it is not that warm summer of 1988 he wants back: it's the childhood. The mentality that one can only achieve when they do not see the world at large in all its depressing glory. Then finally, in the year 2020, his downward spiral reaches an end as he hits the bottom at full velocity, and his heart stops forever.
This is the story of a man who tried to regain the unattainable: youth. Although his body was exterminated in 2020, many argue he had truly died long before: that this man only truly lived to the age of 16, and was killed, doomed to become a lifeless shell of a man, at the end of that summer in 1988.
@@offscreen6578 woah
@@offscreen6578 must have had a shitty 11th grade
@@offscreen6578What happened to him in 1988?
@@offscreen6578 okay
6:26 Ah yes! My favourite song!
🎵 Rick Astley - Together Forever
@@the-letterh 6:26.
My too
11th, 12th and 13th generations are just nightmare fuel
This is like a dream that is starting to end but you don't want to disappear
For me it usually just fades
Yeah and then I try to go back to sleep as soon as I realize that my dream is ending but I can’t :(
No because the dream just abruptly ends and goes to another dream for me last night I had a dream about two trucks
@@Eclanslost.two trucks having sex
This is like the video equivalent to Everywhere at The End of Time.
A less depressing and much more entertaining version to say the least
@@hooviridis8388 at least they died "happily"
20 stages of dementia
ETEOT moment
@@T34-57-s3s*EATEOT
everywhere at the end of time lol
@@T34-57-s3s EATEOT*
0:00 The Grand Decline visit 1 | 1 - The grand hall opens wide
2:41 The Grand Decline visit 19 | 11 - Grand hall crumble beneath
6:13 The Grand Decline visit 31 | _ - Exiled from Gaia's reach
3:59 the tape is obviously screaming for help. It knows that it’s gonna die.
ok time for explain of this video. (i'm not expert in a english)
this video was make in a hurry and without experience on digitization video cassette.
1. switch from mono to stereo.
this is not fault of my vcr (parially). when i try rewrite this moment, i give a effect like a 8th generation. I decided to leave everything as it is.
2. lower speed sound on 8th generation.
for record i used virtualdub. he change a speed of sound when frames out of standard (25i) to avoid asynchronous. behind the scenes synchronization is lost and software trying to repair this and i get this result.
3. color flickering.
this is fault of my capture device. he uncorrect processed color signal on unstable record. on tv color looks is very well.
Можешб и на русском писать, че.
Very eerie, great work.
good work :)
>>>on tv color looks is very well
That is, until there isnt any...
you speak spanish?
This vhs is like the opposite of fine wine.
The more it ages, the worse it gets.
Oh so that’s how those Balkan War footages from the 90s became so low quality & distorted. Which makes them more eerie to watch
Things like this have always been big fears in my life. Especially on the audio side. Pretty sure it started when a toy I loved as a little kid (Kasey the Kinderbot) started to lose battery and became distorted. I could never look at that horrid thing the same ever again. Looking at it now, even images, give me a jolt of anxiety. Same thing happened with furbies later in life. Also, whenever a cd skips, it gives me major anxiety where I have to leave the room and the vicinity of the noise. It was the same thing whenever a wii game I liked crashed randomly, requiring a hard reboot (the game was Six Flags Fun Park).
This video gives me anxiety, but I guess there are times when I crave it. I like listening to music that uses glitches as a musical choice sometimes. I guess it's just to feel something.
I understand. I've had similar experiences. The feeling analogue decay gives me used to scare me, but now comforts me in a strange sad way.
The sounds electronics make when they slow down, the anomalies created by loss; to me is an allegory for death. For aging. Our batteries dying, slowing us down. Our memory tapes becoming fuzzy, distorted.
You'd love Linkin Park
Experience the terror of a 1980s era Speak and Spell low on battery, and the staticy pitch raised voice as the toy goes nuts. "ELF ELF E E E E...". To sweeten the deal, the toy wouldn't shut off and it had a child resistant battery cover. I spent nights quivering in bed after that happened.
it’s so weird i have the same feeling idk what it is
"Listening to a favorite cassette, and suddenly,, "THE DECK decides it's time for dinner, and then engorges the tape. " Makes you really want to hate those moments, until it happens again. ......and again.
Then you are rescued by that awesome CD player, (That mis-reads the disk..... locks up, skips, and then all sorts of stupid things. Thank God for streaming services.
0:00 (Generation 1): Quality is good, but the sound switches between mono and stereo.
0:17 (Generation 2): Quality is lower but still pretty decent. Audio is completely mono now.
0:35 (Generation 3): You can see some static now, and quality is even lower. Sound is ALREADY starting to have problems, you can hear a little record scratch toward the beginning of this generation, and it will be like that from here on out.
0:53 (Generation 4): More static, lower quality, color is starting to go to shit. This is probably the last generation that's even remotely decent, excluding generation seven, if you're okay with the tape looking like something that was made back in 1897. Also you can start to hear a little "Aaah!" at the beginning, which is p̶a̶i̶n̶ the end of the previous part of the song.
1:11 (Generation 5, EPILEPSY WARNING!): Color is... What even is this? Is this supposed to be like some LSD trip? Anyways, colors are completely unstable. Things in general start going to hell from this point toward.
1:28 (Generation 6, EPILEPSY WARNING!): Color is starting to completely fade, and is the final generation to have any color.
1:46 (Generation 7): The video is completely black and white now. Quality is pretty crap, video is kinda shaky.
2:04 (Generation 8): Video is shakier, and is only gonna get shakier from here. Pitch is lower, now.
2:23 (Generation 9): Video is starting to get really unstable. At least the pitch is actually back to where it was, though! For now.
2:41 (Generation 10): It's getting to get harder and harder to see what's going on. If you listen closely, the pitch switches between where it originally was and what it's going to be.
3:00 (Generation 11) It's getting really difficult to see what's happening, it's just mostly static at this point. Again, if you hear closely, the pitch switches back and forth. The video seems to be slowing down, and the "Aaah" at the beginning is longer. And creepier and MY GOD THIS TAPE HAS COMPLETELY GONE TO HELL.
3:20 (Generation 12): The tape in general is getting slower, the video is getting more and more difficult to see, the pitch is still schizophrenic as hell, and the sound is starting to sound more like... how do I describe it? One of the comments on this video said that by the end, it sounds like "a VHS tape and a DJ's turntable got thrown into a tornado". Pretty much the last time you can even REMOTELY hear the pitch as how it was at the beginning.
3:39 (Generation 13): For the most part, I can say the same thing for 13 as I said for 12.
3:59 (Generation 14): The tape is totally ruined at this point. I mean, it already pretty much was back at the fifth generation, but this... it's a wrap. Sound has been going to shit, and you can barely see what's happening anymore.
4:20 (Generation 15): You can still the see the video, but only on occasion.
4:43 (Generation 16): The picture is just about next to non-existent now. Just throw the damn tape into the garbage. Actually, just completely destroy it, just in case. Then throw it into the garbage.
5:04 (Generation 17): You can still see remnants of the picture every now and then, but for the most part the image is
5:26 (Generation 18): Sound has been fading away due to the insane static.
5:49 (Generation 19): I... don't know what else to say at this point.
6:12 (Generation 20): You can still hear the sound kinda well.
6:33 (As sleetskate said, this might be Generation 21.): In a final act of irony, you can hear a faint "forever" at 6:36 if you listen closely, and if you continue to listen closely you can hear a little more of sound, which are just mumbles at this point. After all that, the tape finally decides to end it's misery.
Generation 5 is a little pitched up
creepypasta material
Plus I think I heard an aaaah after the forever at 6:36, then the screen goes blue
@@nostalgia_junkie I thought that the whole video
it almost feels like there was half of a 22nd generation in there before morphing into death
I like how the video slowly becomes *everywhere at the end of time dementia*
this kind of describes what dementia does to people
4:21 G21 - Lost Creepypasta tape of Rick Roll
Slawek361 with hyper realistic blood
True.
@@dava_arvarabi Why all creepypastas has something super realistic?
@@computer_dude Perhaps to convince idiots, or little kid that the story were real? Idk..
@@dava_arvarabi Huh...
6:40 It sounds like a balloon deflating, flying around.
atomic total VHS corruption is about all I see
I'm going to share this to my friend Sam because I know he likes Rick Ashley The way I highly doubt he won't get far into the video as it is just the same looping section
The VHS itself is deflating.
Lol
it sounds like a cat screeching
6:47 i don't trust that shade of blue
it’s like a curse or something
jus kidding but it could certianly been used for a creepypasta
Reminds me of the old windows blue screen of death
smiley.
It’s the same shade of blue that my idling VHS player displays
I feel bad for people that had 10 generation back in the day
this is how i imagine dementia to be.
@dr.escargonbrudda you so edgy
what's more impressive to me about this is that you managed to have *that much* generation loss in a single generation. I work with this media all the time and I'd have to *try* to get the quality to degrade that much. I'd be a little more interested in how much loss there is under reasonably ideal conditions, but I may just do that myself if I get the time to.
All depends on how much feedback is in the system. Professional setups and higher quality equipment are able to maintain a clearer signal
Generation 7-8 looks like programs from TV in the 1940's-50's
it kinda does
Lol
"Together forEAUGHever"
-Rick Astley
from 17 on it sounds like the god damn tornado from Wizard of Oz
Yeah
"We're not in Kansas anymore".
who the hell watches wizard of oz
Or the sound of HSHDYHSUDIS7W74UZYHuGH
no matter what you think we can all agree that this slowly becomes more and more uncanny
at some point suddenly it becomes less uncanny to me when hardly anything can be seen and heared
this is awesome and a bit creepy at the same time
Yea
I started thinking about it in bed and that just gave me the spooks
Even the generation loss can’t make his music more soulless and devoid of personality.
If this made you feel tense by the end, just start the video back at the beginning and you can feel the tension lift away.
G1: 0:00
G2: 0:17
G3: 0:35
G4: 0:53
G5: 1:11
G6: 1:28
G7: 1:46 (First total B&W)
G8: 2:04
G9: 2:23
G10: 2:41 (Picture starts heavily glitching)
G11: 3:00
G12: 3:20
G13: 3:39
G14: 3:59
G15: 4:21
G16: 4:42
G17: 5:04
G18: 5:26
G19: 5:49
G20: 6:12
G21: 6:35 (?)
Last interpretable image: 6:03 (i.imgur.com/wP8IN2c.png)
Last recognizable sound: 6:30
Tape starts dying: 6:38
Bluescreen: 6:46
After G21 its just static, and hard to tell what the fuck is going on. You can hear a faint "...With you" around 6:30, signaling that remnants of sound is still there.
sleetskate, That looks a really messed up tape. I_I
sleetskate Actually, you can hear the *entire song* on G20. If you put the speed at 1.25 and highen the pitch or try very hard to listen, you can hear it.
Very nice!
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I'm leaving a response, so I can find this tomorrow morning
Explanation:
Generation 1: Original, even though there are some minor jumps in the audio
Generation 2: Audio is entirely mono
Generation 3: The colors are slightly starting to bleed
Generation 4; Colors begin to bleed, you can see lines
Generation 5: Color signal failing 💀
Generation 6: Color signal is getting worse
Generation 7: Color is entirely gone, audio has gotten louder since the first generation
Generation 8: Pitch has gotten lower, some picture distortion at the beginning
Generation 9: Normal pitch, noticable picture distortion
Generation 10: Picture distorting more
Generation 11: *AHHHHH*, also a lot more picture distortion
Generation 12: Picture keeps distorting in and out
Generation 13: Picture is nearly fading out of existence
Generation 14: Audio messup at the beginning, picture is almost unrecognizable
Generation 15: Audio and picture getting worse
Generation 16: Only a few frames of the picture remain
Generation 17: Tape sounds like its in a tornado as the picture is down to a few frames
Generation 18: Audio super low pitch, distorted and slowed
Generation 19: Picture is basically gone
Generation 20: what you hear in hell
And that's all the videotape is? Can I throw it in the trash? Is there anything you can do with the tape if the sound quality or image has dropped dramatically?
@@Aleksej1994 I don't know tbh.
Gen 3: Together fOÆUGHever and ever....
@@Aleksej1994nope, if it is rewritable then you can just use normally. what decayed is the information when passing from tape to tape, not the tapes themselves.
*gasps* YOU! I WILL TAKE YOU DOWN, RIP OFF!
6:50 Rest in peace, VHS tape.
gen:1 mono to stereo (flick to and back)
gen2: completely mono
gen20 complete hell
Imagine you find an unknown VHS tape, from a long time deceased person remaining possessions, and you find a recording of that person that looks like 2:32.
And at the end of it all, it's always the same... The ubiquitous silence
Generation over generation of vhs is the best way to explain how losing your memories feels
it was already distorted a bit at the start dammit
SONIC
also cookie you found me
TomTurboSwaggings *its called a vhs for a fucking reason*
That’s just VHS though. It’s rarely perfect. Part of what makes VHS so charming though. 👌
VHS is like that bro
Weird how the colours get more saturated and then lose the colour.
Im the vhs generation but I dont remember seeing them this fucked up.
Me either but then again, this VCR's a PAL version since the frame rate's at 50 frames-per-second while NTSC is at 59.98 frames-per-second.
I've got my parents wedding in vhs, and has one part of the video with issues
- I can see snow in the first part
- no colour at all
- slowing speed and without colour
- at the end only static and blue screen
End of the video
@@tvsuncanilijek7477 no normal person would ever copy a tape more than 2 or 3 generation. This is not wear and tear, it's loss through repeated copying.
@@tvsuncanilijek7477 the user said in a pinned comment that the colour issue was due to a problem with his capturing device. The actual display was fine
Its so sad that eventually, every VHS that has ever existed since their invention will eventually degrade and become completely unwatchable. Its contents will be lost to time.
Even people restoring and maintaining vast collections of VHS tapes right now will eventually die and their collections will be donated to goodwill, theyll end up in someones garage, gathering dust and mold, and losing quality as the months go by. A true example of memento mori.
It'll take a looong time for that to happen. I still have a few tapes my parents recorded off of TV in 1986 (they didn't stop the recording at the end, so some news reports got recorded too, making it easy to pinpoint the date), and they're still perfectly watchable despite not being stored in the best of conditions (cardboard boxes in the basement).
Remember.. this video here is _intentional_ quality loss by doing something no one with half a brain left would normally do: creating copies of copies so VHS' inherent loss of quality stacks exponentially
@asdfpoop33921 not sure why you explained what i already said but cool... i guess?
@@Knaeckebrotsaege 🤨
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Its not that dark dude, not all people gonna die in future, we gonna live forever as cyborgs.
i love how with every generation, Rick's teeth in the close-up shots look progressively more British.
3:40 started sounding like a toy with prerecorded audio boxes but it's low on battery.
this is very cool to watch!
These things scared me in childhood
generation 18 vaporwave
18 generation has that kinda vaporware sounds, you know the one that makes you hit your kids.
6:00 calm down Satan.
Even the generation loss can’t make his music more soulless and devoid of edge.
What? Devoid of edge?
Its like a person remembering living his best years turning into a deep nightmarish real world his life has become
I cried at the end. For my life, and for the world. This is high art.
Profoundly moving piece.
2:05 the pitch change makes it sound like a part of the rickroll song that didn't make it in the final cut
It sounds better tbh.
I think it slowed down.