@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist4 Satan is way better. Like bro, can you imagine being able to be tortured and talk to stalin at the same time? that would be so weird but cool.
@@JahmazeJahmaze Right now I am imagining going your entire life trying to commit enough atrocities to reach Stalin's circle of hell just to meet him as a masochist irreversibly addicted to pain. It'd be a match made in hell.
i dont know how but i searched vhs generation loss a while ago and i recently saw that search thinking it was one of those codes for like those really bad videos but then saw stuff about well, vhs generation loss
*analog horror scary part starts* Knock knock, Its the united states. *evil laughter before it cuts to a japanese guys corpse, shutting of the laughter when showing the corpse, only sound is static.*
@@St0rmC4st3r plus not all people realize that data copy of any kind can lead to loss. I prefer these people to those that believe that a 1:1 copy of digital data can lead to loss of quality
These captions are freaking awesome explaining the entire history of VHS, dude. Also I'm surprised the captions kept going even when the video quality went haywire.
Yeah, but the true magic and genius happens when you turn on the RUclips cc. There's an alternate story going on about media recordings and tape in the captions... whoever did this must have had an IQ of around 140 at least, probably higher.
VHS is a format by the e-waste filled with nostalgia and it’s A N A L O G! In the year 1890, recordings might not have existed. In the year 1900 they did exist, and you could listen to them! And some people listened to them, then it got large, the cylinder flattened, it became marketable and now there’s lots of players because it’s marketable. So now there’s record on the market, they’re basically sort of hanging out in between the store shelves, selling for profit and using the latest technology, like needles and speed control. DING DONG! It’s the innovators, and they technology from the future, like wire recording and crazy record times. Now you can store a lot of sound, really really compactly. That means if you own the recorder, you own a lot of capacity, which is something that everybody needs to entertain, so that makes you dominant. Wire recordings and wire recorders spread across the market all the way to here. The most important formats were this, this, this, this, this, this and this, but this one was the most important, known as Webster-Chicago, or portable for short. Knock Knock! Get the door, it’s tape! The new prince wants everyone to use this hot new storage medium called 8-track. “Please, try this storage medium!” He said “NO” said everybody “Try it!” He said “No…” said everyone again, quieter this time. And so the standard was put into place, and all the players that came with it. The the market was taken over by RCA tape cartridge. And they made some reforms, like making the audio less noisy and making the audio more like vinyl’s audio that’s less noisy. “Hi vinyl”, they said “Hi scrawny” said vinyl “Can you call us something else other than scrawny?” Said cassette. “Like what?” Said vinyl “How about portable?” And they stole vinyl’s market share and made a store. For themselves. And then they make a lot of audiobooks and music and another store for themselves. Then they stopped changing the format every time something new came out and kept it as one standard for a while. Audio cassette. And they conquered Europe, finally. Get that squared away. A rich format named Quadraplex is bored with linear tape scan visits vinyl and learns a better scan which is more helical, then it comes back, invents home video tape and causes TV playback to be great for a long time. And the professional equipment turned into such a dream world of preservation that they really didn’t give a shit about the consumers. So if you work outside the studio, how are you supposed to protect your sanity from missed shows? PHILLIPS VCR. Everyone started using the Phillips VCR. Rich important people used Phillips VCR, poor people who could not afford to use Phillips VCR did not use Phillips VCR. VCR became organized and prolific, more prolific than Quadraplex. So they made their own compact cassette store here. They let Quadraplex stay in the studios, but VCR is actually in control. BREAKING NEWS, the CED has invaded the market. “We’ve invaded the market” said CED “Please respect us, or else we might put you out of business”. “Okay” said VCR. So CED came over, ready to sell, and died in the competition. But they tried again and had a nice time fighting with VCR, and died in the competition. The V2000 overthrows VCR, then U-Matic overthrows him back and moved to Japan and males a new format. And V2000 can still use the VCR logo if he wants, that’s fine. Now there’s more content! Like recording from TV, home video sales, personal memories, sexy times, tape rentals, camcorder plugin, multi-timers, time-shifting. It’s time for who’s going to be the next format. Usually it’s U-Matic’s kid, but U-Matic doesn’t have a kid, so he tries to get a new cassette to come out of prototypes and have more tape, called VHS. VHS says okay, but then U-Matic has a kid, called Beta. So now who’s gonna be? Vote now with your money. And everyone voted so hard that the discussion caught on fire and burned down. U-Matic actually didn’t care, he was off somewhere doing professional stuff, and so the whole market descended into a format war. Everyone is fighting with each other for local power, and it’s anybody’s game. Knock knock, it’s competition. No, they’re not here to decide the winner, they just wanna sell features, like tape speeds and descrambling, and HIGH-FIDELITY. So that’s cool, but they’re both still fighting each other for control, now with Hi-Fi. And wouldn’t it be nice to control the distributors, which right now is puppets with no one dominant? Beta is ready to make a run for it, but first they have to trample this younger format (VHS) which is in the way. Surprise, VHS wins, and JVC steals the idea of invading distributors and invades the distributors, and it goes very well. He’s about halfway though conquering the market when LaserDisc kills them, and then S-VHS kills them, and S-VHS finishes conquering the market, and then he confiscated everybody’s Beta tapes, and made some standards. “And now I’m going to invade the sea, and then hopefully, space” he said, and failed, and also stagnated. But before he stagnated, he told these five companies to take care of the format until it’s advanced enough to rule the world. The five companies said “YEAH RIGHT… It’s not gonna be S-VHS, It’s gonna be normal VHS, because it’s ubiquitous”. And it’s probably going to be Sony, who happens to be way more rich and powerful than the others. Then people support him, but the content makers supported not supporting him. They have a fight and the people win! And starts a new video store right here: BLOCKBUSTER, and still lets V2000 use the VCR logo and flip tapes. But don’t get confused, this is the new format. And they’re very strict, so strict that they close the market. No format can come in and none may spin off, except for VHS-C if they want to record from camcorders, but they need to use and adapter. Now that the formats weren’t at war with themselves, adoption increased a lot. Businesses used them, schools used them, house used them, everybody learned to time-shift, movies were sold, there was action, horror, sexy times, low quality shows and linear edition. People started studying tape editing using techniques they learned from the cassette. We’re talking spicing, dubbing, scratching, generation loss, careful planning, and maybe even effects. Over time the quality and economic prosperity gradually began to slow down- KNOCKKNOCK, IT’S CD VIDEO. WITH SMALL DISCS, OF GOLD GOLD DISKS
“open to new formats. stop being so closed” said CD Video There’s nothing they can really do so they signed a contract that let’s. CD Video, Video CD and LaserDisc visit the market whenever they want. Sony and JVC hated this. “That sucks” they said “This sucks!”. And almost with very little outside help they overthrew the disks and somehow made VHS dominant again and moved it to the US market which they renamed “the best market”. They made new master copies, which was a lot more digital. They made distributions methods, which were also digital, and a high-fidelity system, that was also really digital, and do you know what else is digital? That’s right, CGI. So what can we distribute? Toy Story. So they distribute Toy Story on behalf of it’s previous owner, Disney and then go into camcorder formats. Then DV rushes in out of nowhere and says “Stop no you can’t take than we were going to make some compact camcorders of our own” And DV makes their camcorders, supervised by a shit-ton of VHS-Cs. And then once they build their camcorders they downgrade to a fuck-ton. Did I say downgrade? I meant upgrade. VHS says “can you maybe chill?”, then DV says “How about maybe you chill?”. VHS is kinda scared of DV. You’ll never guess who’s also scared of DV. Video8. So VHS and Video8 make an alliance together so they can be a little less scared of DV. Feeling confident, VHS goes to war against DV, just for a moment. And then they both get tired and stop. It’s time for Camcorder War 1. The world is about to have a war, because it’s the 1990S and recordings are getting crazy, and all these formats are excited to try each other on each other. Meanwhile VHS has been enjoying gaining movies and wants more, and the next thing on their list is the camcorder market and lots of good movies. All that stuff belongs to Digital8 with just had war declared on by Video8 because Video8 was friends with Hi8 which was being trespassed by Digital8 in order to get to HDV to kick HDV’s ass because HDV is friends with DV who was getting ready to kick MicroMV’s ass because MicroMV was getting ready to kick MiniDV’s ass because some MiniDV tape ate the tape out of a master MicroMV’s ass, or actually a cassette, and Video8 is currently friends with VHS, so you know what that means… Duh, VHS should take the camcorders which they wanted to do anyways, so they called Video8 on the internet to sort of let them know, and then they did it. And they also helped Video8 here and there with some transfers and stuff. Ding, now the war is over and congratulations, VHS! You technically fought int the wat which means you get to sit at the negotiating with the big dudes, where they decided who owns what. And yes, VHS gets to keep all that stuff they stole from Digital8. You also get to join the post-war standards alliance, the Implementers Forum, whose mission statement is to try not to make proprietary systems. The .com bubble is bad and VHS’s sales are now crappy, but the quality is doing just fine, then they put music on VHS and the forum says “No don’t do that if you’re in the forum you’re not supposed to make proprietary formats” and VHS said “How bout I do anyway?” And VHS makes more and more and more and more audio and was planning on invading the entire market. You’ve got mail! It’s from Digital8, the new speed of Digital8. He has a Coll video quality and is trying to take over the market and needs friends. This also got forwarded to DV. They all decided to become friends because they are all tape. IT’S TIME FOR FORMAT WAR II Digital8 Is invading the neighbored, then they invade new markets, and one of the new markets, which happened to be TiVo said “Holy shit”. And DVD helping TiVo because they are good friends, and they are not helping VHS because “their friends and our friends are not friends, plus they’re planning on invading the entire market!”. DVD is also working on a small very blue laser, more space than any other disk ever just in case. But they still haven’t joined the format war. War looks bad on TV and DVD is starting to care about its image, but then VHS spits on the in old houses and challenges them to war, and they say yes. And then Digital8, as a symbol of friendship, declares war on DVD also. So DVD goes to war in TV recording and they help the gang chase Digital8 back into camcorders and they also starting chasing VHS bacon into VCRs. They still haven’t used the blue laser yet and are curious to see if it works, so they drop Blu-Ray on VHS… and HD DVD too. DVD installed a new format inspired by the new blue lasers, with just the right ingredients for a post-war economic miracle, and then the market starts making Blu-Rays, SD cards, DVD mailing and camcorders as fast as they can, and also higher quality than VHS. They get popular and the sales go wildAnd then adoption stops growing, but everything is still pretty cool, I guess? Bye.
@@Yerofey_KhabarovsiocmpJKAShmri i honestly was dying to get some sleep when i wrote this, i didnt expect for it to "blow up" or for anyone to learn from it
Theis is real vhs too, the vibe of the video goes with vhs, he is always not on tune while singing, it feels like a 90s presentation and the vhs adds to it
Note to self: use the master copy to record on other tapes with. Or you can go digital and transfer the video directly to DVD. So you can watch it over and over again and it wont degrade like this over time.
Dude, most sources in this day and age are digital. It doesn't degrade like this "over time," OP literally copied tapes to a tape on purpose to get this effect. This is like borrowing a friend's tape to copy it and your next 10 friends doing the same thing with each copy
@@wer123456 Yes, but generally the more you play a tape, the more it degrades over time, especially when reminded to specific points. That’s what the commenter’s point was.
@@cloudirubez07 quote: "degrades 'like this' over time". Wear and tear present as horizontal moving lines, loss of VHS hifi tracking, or loss of signal altogether. Not like generational loss.
Close to the end I can feel and hear the player trying it’s hardest to keep the image stable. But it just struggles, until it gives up and gives us a blue screen.
5:41 is pretty much how TV looked when I was a kid and we had three over air channels from a town an hour drive away. Core memory unlocked. And we loved it, we didn't care, it was TV!
I wish I could thumb up this more. The way you linked format history and wars with the OG Bill Wurtz video is nothing short of spectacular. Bravo, you can be proud of yourself!
I took what I knew about video formats and wrote it as a parody of History of Japan, though I had to shoehorn a few things to get it in, such as making up the implementer's forum
'' I used Sony VCRs in NTSC format with Japanese tapes! Does it get more Japanese than that? '' Yes it does ! , the tape's plastic casings must be in funky colors ! :p
This feels as though i'm watching an old recording in a shoddy bunker of a Country's history, and that it's becoming worse and worse over time due to some kind of effect of a superweapon of the war that has almost completely obliterated the tape, and there are barely any comprehendable fragments left of it
(yes I know I'm 4 years late to the party, but) It's interesting to see that the audio quality, although mostly unchanged, just keeps on getting LOUDER! The reason why VHS generation loss happens is because the bandwidth of the tape is not enough to carry the full NTSC/PAL signal, so it's like a repeated low-pass filtration, but the audio track of the tape is effectively a mono Compact Cassette tape, which has more than enough bandwidth for good quality audio, so the generational loss happens at frequencies we can't hear. I suspect the getting louder is an issue with the recording, where one VCR records the audio slightly too "hot", and really shouldn't happen.
This is my first time seeing one of these videos and I don't know what any of that means but I think it's pretty cool. I thought generation loss was a fandom thing but I've been proven to be a dummy. I might start getting more into this, old technology is pretty interesting
Beginning to realize that the reason a lot of the videos I watched in grade school during "movie days" were so low quality is likely because they were several generation deep copies made by a school district in big debt.
Timestamps (for captions): 0:09 what the hell is a vhs 0:13 1900 to 1940-ish (the cylinder era I think) 0:32 1948 to 1963 (wire recorder era) 0:59 1964 (8 track) 1:15 1964 (rca tape cartridge) 1:46 late 1960s (quadraplex) 2:05 1970s (P H I L I P S V C R) 2:22 1981-1986 (ced) 2:38 1986 (v2000 and u matic) 2:52 1986 (who’s going to be the next format) 3:10 1986-1987 (vhs’s rise) 3:41 1987 (laserdisc and s-vhs) 4:50 1987 (holy crap) 5:05 1987-1993 (actually nvm) 5:22 1993-1995 (goin digital) 5:33 1995-2000-ish (cgi and dv) 6:10 2000 (Format War 1) 7:15 2000-2002 (.com bubble) 7:42 2002-2006 (Format War 2) 8:26 2006-now (blu ray and hd dvd) 9:04 bye
history of VHS, I guess Yea these subtitles taught me more about analog video formats than anything else in the internet ever It even deserves its own history of video, I guess
I see the algorithm caught this video again! First view here, genuinely fascinating to see how it degrades. And hearing the audio slightly pitch up and down later on is wild.
Timelapse of generation loss (I will include only image ok?) Gen 1: Just Master VHS copy Gen 2: Copy of MVHS - You Can see the grey bar appear on top Gen 3: Double Copy of MVHS - Color Started Bleeding but its not that noticible, Color Started saturating on left bar. You can now see that the outlines are Thiccer Gen 4: Color Started Bleeding (You can see on door or book), outlines are more white. Gen 4 vid, 5 audio: Not much to say, Due to problem with transferring video uses gen 4 vid but gen 5 audio! Gen 6 audio, 7 vid: Big jump! Video uses now Neon colors and high contrast! White Borders Are more noticible, Same with the bars. Sometimes Video Would start distorting! Gen 7: Not a lot changes: Only Color is little more distorted Gen 8: Text is a little harder to read Gen 9: Major Distorsion Incoming! Video distortions Are now common! Also color is darker Gen 10: Now Color doesn't appear at all for some moments! White borders more noticible and more distortion. Also i love the "Knock Knock, Its the United States" Moment Gen 11: Fluctuating Color, By that it means that color doesnt fit the picture(except the bar) Also Picture most of the time is not fitting screen. More Distortion. you know the drill Gen 12: Most of the text is UNREADABLE! Also weirdly enough picture is more stable than last generation! Also its the last generation that has ANY color at all. Gen 13: COMPLETE DISTORTION! You still can see some text and picture but its REAL HARD. Picture doesnt stay! no more color! Gen 14: You can't tell whats going anymore (Except some few Frames) Gen 15: You should put this tape into trash can Gen 16: The last gen that has ANY RECOGNIZABLE FRAMES Gen 17: No more recognizable frames! you should burn this tape! Gen 18(My fav): This tape is so bad it shows bluescreen when it says "VCR's" DESTROY THIS TAPE
For those wondering whether analog or digital is better, the 18th generation copy of a DVD will look and sound just as good as the first, as long as you use a high-quality format.
The subtitles taught me more about the timeline of video formats than everything I've learned on the internet.
they used speed control
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist4be quiet you bot I’m an atheist.
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist4im christian, just Don't spam
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist4 Satan is way better. Like bro, can you imagine being able to be tortured and talk to stalin at the same time? that would be so weird but cool.
@@JahmazeJahmaze Right now I am imagining going your entire life trying to commit enough atrocities to reach Stalin's circle of hell just to meet him as a masochist irreversibly addicted to pain. It'd be a match made in hell.
As someone who loves Bill Wurtz and someone who has recently become obsessed with VHS generation loss, this was made for me lol
Same lol
Me 2!!
@@dnaroseandthewolves Me -488!
i dont know how but i searched vhs generation loss a while ago and i recently saw that search thinking it was one of those codes for like those really bad videos but then saw stuff about well, vhs generation loss
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist4No thanks! Forcing your religion on people is not the way to get them to convert :)
fucking love how the distortion gets so much worse when america shows up 4:52
“Knock knock, it’s the United States”
@p9vdc 2 productions "gunboats."
"open the country. stop having it be closed." - an american idk
that is genuinely so ominous
*analog horror scary part starts*
Knock knock, Its the united states. *evil laughter before it cuts to a japanese guys corpse, shutting of the laughter when showing the corpse, only sound is static.*
*knock knock. its the United States.*
8:28 This is actually very eerie
Yeah.
im the 100th like
@404TVfragreed
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds
Someone should reupload this as analogue horror and put some eerie images after that part.
I had no idea VHS generation loss was a thing until now, and I find it very interesting and disturbing
I hightly recommend checking out the "Rewind This!" documentary if you are interested in the history of VCRs
Ye
Did you think VHS tapes and VCRs were able to losslessly play and record video? 😆
Or maybe just never thought about it.
@@galacticboy2009 not all people are as old as we are....
@@St0rmC4st3r plus not all people realize that data copy of any kind can lead to loss. I prefer these people to those that believe that a 1:1 copy of digital data can lead to loss of quality
Amazing! I love VHS generation loss stuff, and the subtitles are good
Truee
real
Ha ha ha, speaking of generation loss.. have you ever heard of Ranboo?
@@PixelPringle24x yes we need more people to see it
@@sonataandsymphony great minds think alike
These captions are freaking awesome explaining the entire history of VHS, dude. Also I'm surprised the captions kept going even when the video quality went haywire.
I think the captions are separate from the video and are displayed over the video.
wow thanks for letting me know, these are great lol
captions are youtube
I gotta watch the whole damned video again because I didn't turn the captions on until about the last 2 minutes of it.😂🤣💀
The editing and the VHS combined make it look like it was actually an old tape in schools or TV.
I think they actually used real vhs tapes for this
@@circumplex9552i'm sure they used a real vhs recorder
Yeah, but the true magic and genius happens when you turn on the RUclips cc. There's an alternate story going on about media recordings and tape in the captions... whoever did this must have had an IQ of around 140 at least, probably higher.
it is
With the vhs effect it looks like a 90s school presentation
@@doctordothraki4378 You can fix that by deinterlacing top-to-bottom instead of bottom-to-top or visa versa.
@@leistiits sorta like the videos that are transferred from vhs like the moon dance video that most people watched in science
Not an effect. The uploader used a actual tapes for this
Especially around 8:00
4:50 [stable video]
4:53 [becomes jittery and washed out]
its the united states
knock knock _it's the united states_
Knock knock.
*It's the United States.*
(Press shift to run)
VHS is a format by the e-waste filled with nostalgia and it’s A N A L O G!
In the year 1890, recordings might not have existed. In the year 1900 they did exist, and you could listen to them! And some people listened to them, then it got large, the cylinder flattened, it became marketable and now there’s lots of players because it’s marketable. So now there’s record on the market, they’re basically sort of hanging out in between the store shelves, selling for profit and using the latest technology, like needles and speed control. DING DONG! It’s the innovators, and they technology from the future, like wire recording and crazy record times. Now you can store a lot of sound, really really compactly. That means if you own the recorder, you own a lot of capacity, which is something that everybody needs to entertain, so that makes you dominant. Wire recordings and wire recorders spread across the market all the way to here. The most important formats were this, this, this, this, this, this and this, but this one was the most important, known as Webster-Chicago, or portable for short.
Knock Knock! Get the door, it’s tape! The new prince wants everyone to use this hot new storage medium called 8-track.
“Please, try this storage medium!” He said
“NO” said everybody
“Try it!” He said
“No…” said everyone again, quieter this time.
And so the standard was put into place, and all the players that came with it.
The the market was taken over by RCA tape cartridge. And they made some reforms, like making the audio less noisy and making the audio more like vinyl’s audio that’s less noisy.
“Hi vinyl”, they said
“Hi scrawny” said vinyl
“Can you call us something else other than scrawny?” Said cassette.
“Like what?” Said vinyl
“How about portable?”
And they stole vinyl’s market share and made a store. For themselves. And then they make a lot of audiobooks and music and another store for themselves. Then they stopped changing the format every time something new came out and kept it as one standard for a while. Audio cassette. And they conquered Europe, finally. Get that squared away.
A rich format named Quadraplex is bored with linear tape scan visits vinyl and learns a better scan which is more helical, then it comes back, invents home video tape and causes TV playback to be great for a long time. And the professional equipment turned into such a dream world of preservation that they really didn’t give a shit about the consumers. So if you work outside the studio, how are you supposed to protect your sanity from missed shows? PHILLIPS VCR. Everyone started using the Phillips VCR. Rich important people used Phillips VCR, poor people who could not afford to use Phillips VCR did not use Phillips VCR. VCR became organized and prolific, more prolific than Quadraplex. So they made their own compact cassette store here. They let Quadraplex stay in the studios, but VCR is actually in control. BREAKING NEWS, the CED has invaded the market.
“We’ve invaded the market” said CED “Please respect us, or else we might put you out of business”.
“Okay” said VCR.
So CED came over, ready to sell, and died in the competition. But they tried again and had a nice time fighting with VCR, and died in the competition. The V2000 overthrows VCR, then U-Matic overthrows him back and moved to Japan and males a new format. And V2000 can still use the VCR logo if he wants, that’s fine. Now there’s more content!
Like recording from TV, home video sales, personal memories, sexy times, tape rentals, camcorder plugin, multi-timers, time-shifting. It’s time for who’s going to be the next format. Usually it’s U-Matic’s kid, but U-Matic doesn’t have a kid, so he tries to get a new cassette to come out of prototypes and have more tape, called VHS. VHS says okay, but then U-Matic has a kid, called Beta. So now who’s gonna be? Vote now with your money. And everyone voted so hard that the discussion caught on fire and burned down. U-Matic actually didn’t care, he was off somewhere doing professional stuff, and so the whole market descended into a format war. Everyone is fighting with each other for local power, and it’s anybody’s game.
Knock knock, it’s competition.
No, they’re not here to decide the winner, they just wanna sell features, like tape speeds and descrambling, and HIGH-FIDELITY.
So that’s cool, but they’re both still fighting each other for control, now with Hi-Fi. And wouldn’t it be nice to control the distributors, which right now is puppets with no one dominant? Beta is ready to make a run for it, but first they have to trample this younger format (VHS) which is in the way. Surprise, VHS wins, and JVC steals the idea of invading distributors and invades the distributors, and it goes very well. He’s about halfway though conquering the market when LaserDisc kills them, and then S-VHS kills them, and S-VHS finishes conquering the market, and then he confiscated everybody’s Beta tapes, and made some standards. “And now I’m going to invade the sea, and then hopefully, space” he said, and failed, and also stagnated. But before he stagnated, he told these five companies to take care of the format until it’s advanced enough to rule the world. The five companies said “YEAH RIGHT… It’s not gonna be S-VHS, It’s gonna be normal VHS, because it’s ubiquitous”. And it’s probably going to be Sony, who happens to be way more rich and powerful than the others. Then people support him, but the content makers supported not supporting him. They have a fight and the people win! And starts a new video store right here: BLOCKBUSTER, and still lets V2000 use the VCR logo and flip tapes. But don’t get confused, this is the new format. And they’re very strict, so strict that they close the market. No format can come in and none may spin off, except for VHS-C if they want to record from camcorders, but they need to use and adapter. Now that the formats weren’t at war with themselves, adoption increased a lot. Businesses used them, schools used them, house used them, everybody learned to time-shift, movies were sold, there was action, horror, sexy times, low quality shows and linear edition. People started studying tape editing using techniques they learned from the cassette. We’re talking spicing, dubbing, scratching, generation loss, careful planning, and maybe even effects. Over time the quality and economic prosperity gradually began to slow down-
KNOCKKNOCK, IT’S CD VIDEO.
WITH SMALL DISCS, OF GOLD
GOLD DISKS
“open to new formats. stop being so closed” said CD Video
There’s nothing they can really do so they signed a contract that let’s. CD Video, Video CD and LaserDisc visit the market whenever they want. Sony and JVC hated this. “That sucks” they said “This sucks!”. And almost with very little outside help they overthrew the disks and somehow made VHS dominant again and moved it to the US market which they renamed “the best market”. They made new master copies, which was a lot more digital. They made distributions methods, which were also digital, and a high-fidelity system, that was also really digital, and do you know what else is digital? That’s right, CGI. So what can we distribute? Toy Story. So they distribute Toy Story on behalf of it’s previous owner, Disney and then go into camcorder formats. Then DV rushes in out of nowhere and says “Stop no you can’t take than we were going to make some compact camcorders of our own” And DV makes their camcorders, supervised by a shit-ton of VHS-Cs. And then once they build their camcorders they downgrade to a fuck-ton. Did I say downgrade? I meant upgrade. VHS says “can you maybe chill?”, then DV says “How about maybe you chill?”. VHS is kinda scared of DV. You’ll never guess who’s also scared of DV. Video8. So VHS and Video8 make an alliance together so they can be a little less scared of DV. Feeling confident, VHS goes to war against DV, just for a moment. And then they both get tired and stop. It’s time for Camcorder War 1. The world is about to have a war, because it’s the 1990S and recordings are getting crazy, and all these formats are excited to try each other on each other. Meanwhile VHS has been enjoying gaining movies and wants more, and the next thing on their list is the camcorder market and lots of good movies. All that stuff belongs to Digital8 with just had war declared on by Video8 because Video8 was friends with Hi8 which was being trespassed by Digital8 in order to get to HDV to kick HDV’s ass because HDV is friends with DV who was getting ready to kick MicroMV’s ass because MicroMV was getting ready to kick MiniDV’s ass because some MiniDV tape ate the tape out of a master MicroMV’s ass, or actually a cassette, and Video8 is currently friends with VHS, so you know what that means… Duh, VHS should take the camcorders which they wanted to do anyways, so they called Video8 on the internet to sort of let them know, and then they did it. And they also helped Video8 here and there with some transfers and stuff. Ding, now the war is over and congratulations, VHS! You technically fought int the wat which means you get to sit at the negotiating with the big dudes, where they decided who owns what. And yes, VHS gets to keep all that stuff they stole from Digital8. You also get to join the post-war standards alliance, the Implementers Forum, whose mission statement is to try not to make proprietary systems. The .com bubble is bad and VHS’s sales are now crappy, but the quality is doing just fine, then they put music on VHS and the forum says “No don’t do that if you’re in the forum you’re not supposed to make proprietary formats” and VHS said “How bout I do anyway?” And VHS makes more and more and more and more audio and was planning on invading the entire market.
You’ve got mail! It’s from Digital8, the new speed of Digital8. He has a Coll video quality and is trying to take over the market and needs friends. This also got forwarded to DV. They all decided to become friends because they are all tape.
IT’S TIME FOR FORMAT WAR II
Digital8 Is invading the neighbored, then they invade new markets, and one of the new markets, which happened to be TiVo said “Holy shit”. And DVD helping TiVo because they are good friends, and they are not helping VHS because “their friends and our friends are not friends, plus they’re planning on invading the entire market!”. DVD is also working on a small very blue laser, more space than any other disk ever just in case. But they still haven’t joined the format war. War looks bad on TV and DVD is starting to care about its image, but then VHS spits on the in old houses and challenges them to war, and they say yes. And then Digital8, as a symbol of friendship, declares war on DVD also. So DVD goes to war in TV recording and they help the gang chase Digital8 back into camcorders and they also starting chasing VHS bacon into VCRs. They still haven’t used the blue laser yet and are curious to see if it works, so they drop Blu-Ray on VHS… and HD DVD too. DVD installed a new format inspired by the new blue lasers, with just the right ingredients for a post-war economic miracle, and then the market starts making Blu-Rays, SD cards, DVD mailing and camcorders as fast as they can, and also higher quality than VHS. They get popular and the sales go wildAnd then adoption stops growing, but everything is still pretty cool, I guess? Bye.
Your efforts deserve a heart!
@@doctordothraki4378 Thank you man!
@@nushnum lol
@@Yerofey_KhabarovsiocmpJKAShmri i honestly was dying to get some sleep when i wrote this, i didnt expect for it to "blow up" or for anyone to learn from it
4:53 is probably my most favorite scene from this video. I guess it just feels like analog horror in my opinion I guess idk.
united states analog horror 😱
@@anonymouspersonthefakemonument mythos moment
@@p0lydaedalusWhenever Freedom appears to turn you into a canyon crown it first says *“Knock knock. It’s the United States”*
Brain rot
Are you autistic?
8:55: The image goes out the moment he says "VCRs".
yeah, japan made VCRs
Normalize vhs effects making videos funnier instead of scary. This amazingly hilarious.
Theis is real vhs too, the vibe of the video goes with vhs, he is always not on tune while singing, it feels like a 90s presentation and the vhs adds to it
Note to self: use the master copy to record on other tapes with. Or you can go digital and transfer the video directly to DVD. So you can watch it over and over again and it wont degrade like this over time.
Dude, most sources in this day and age are digital. It doesn't degrade like this "over time," OP literally copied tapes to a tape on purpose to get this effect. This is like borrowing a friend's tape to copy it and your next 10 friends doing the same thing with each copy
@@wer123456 This is like Billy Mitchell's tape from the King of Kong doc
@@wer123456 Yes, but generally the more you play a tape, the more it degrades over time, especially when reminded to specific points. That’s what the commenter’s point was.
@@cloudirubez07 quote: "degrades 'like this' over time". Wear and tear present as horizontal moving lines, loss of VHS hifi tracking, or loss of signal altogether. Not like generational loss.
Close to the end I can feel and hear the player trying it’s hardest to keep the image stable. But it just struggles, until it gives up and gives us a blue screen.
The way you explained it makes me feel bad for some reason.
100
PERFECT video for a meme like this.
I want the subtitles as an actual parody, like a "History of VHS...i guess"
I had to watch twice, second time with no sound so I could actually follow the captions. A remake with _even more dated aesthetics_ would be awesome
Somebody in the comments already wrote the script for that XDDDD
@@dylanfield7098that "script" is the subtitles
i spent about half the entire video not knowing that the captions were specially designed around the topic of video formats
5:41 is pretty much how TV looked when I was a kid and we had three over air channels from a town an hour drive away. Core memory unlocked. And we loved it, we didn't care, it was TV!
The vhs effect is way better then any analog horror
Absolutely
Probably because this is real
@@user-yw8sr3uj1w so what? It’s still better
Not a very high bar to clear
One of the best contemporary history lessons I've ever witnessed - I'm already rewinding it with a Bic pen for a rewatch!
I wish I could thumb up this more. The way you linked format history and wars with the OG Bill Wurtz video is nothing short of spectacular. Bravo, you can be proud of yourself!
Once you get about 7 minutes in the audio is so distorted that your brain hears the subtitles instead of the actual audio
this looks like a obscure history video from 1982 and i love it
It is nice to know that Japan had a major part in vhs history
This feels like a fever dream of a educational video from the 1990s
Educational, informative, funny, and geeky. Now i understand the Format Wars. I love it.
bill wurtz is already vhs-
*_E V E N M O R E_*
i think you mean "ＶＨＳ ＢＵＴ 720 Ｐ"
i find it amazing how i can still kinda see what's going on by the end because of how many times i've watched history of japan
This is a meme in the making because this video is PERFECT just for that!
This is an incredible video. First for the concept and the execution, second for the story told in the captions
I was more interested in how you wrote the captions than the actual video, even though I already knew(some) of it. Good job XD
I took what I knew about video formats and wrote it as a parody of History of Japan, though I had to shoehorn a few things to get it in, such as making up the implementer's forum
I like how when he says "VCR" it turns blue. It's almost like the video knows.
For some reason I think gen 8 fits it perfectly
I love the history lesson in the subtitles, super creative!
The captions were creatively built upon the original script, props to you.
My gen-Z humour had me absolutely dying with “Y O U ‘ V E G O T M A I L” amidst the static
7:32 is the timestamp for anyone who needs it
'' I used Sony VCRs in NTSC format with Japanese tapes! Does it get more Japanese than that? ''
Yes it does ! , the tape's plastic casings must be in funky colors ! :p
@@doctordothraki4378 Japanese enough :p
Thanks fam this video answered a lot of questions I had about VHS tapes as a kid.
love it that as soon the video mentions VCR's the VHS just give up
*Alternative Title*
History of Japan But It’s On VHS And Every Time He Says "In" It Suffers From Generation Loss
That “BYE” at the end was something
I want a VHS version of History of Japan. Seems like the medium it was meant to be on
I uploaded that, where it's just generation 1 on VHS. Two versions in fact (anamorphic and letterbox). I did it for History of the World, too
@@doctordothraki4378 Link?
@@doctordothraki4378 do it on gen 8 the entire time
Ive never seen subtitles with more effort than this. You must really like Bill Wurtz
This feels as though i'm watching an old recording in a shoddy bunker of a Country's history, and that it's becoming worse and worse over time due to some kind of effect of a superweapon of the war that has almost completely obliterated the tape, and there are barely any comprehendable fragments left of it
Now this is painting with less colors!
as someone who loves the history of video formats, the captions are hilarious and real asf
i love rhis video!!
(yes I know I'm 4 years late to the party, but) It's interesting to see that the audio quality, although mostly unchanged, just keeps on getting LOUDER! The reason why VHS generation loss happens is because the bandwidth of the tape is not enough to carry the full NTSC/PAL signal, so it's like a repeated low-pass filtration, but the audio track of the tape is effectively a mono Compact Cassette tape, which has more than enough bandwidth for good quality audio, so the generational loss happens at frequencies we can't hear. I suspect the getting louder is an issue with the recording, where one VCR records the audio slightly too "hot", and really shouldn't happen.
This is my first time seeing one of these videos and I don't know what any of that means but I think it's pretty cool. I thought generation loss was a fandom thing but I've been proven to be a dummy. I might start getting more into this, old technology is pretty interesting
mmmm love me some high quality generation loss in 60fps
Its very unsettling when it gets more corrupted as it gets in to WW2 especially when the mention "those guys"
Beginning to realize that the reason a lot of the videos I watched in grade school during "movie days" were so low quality is likely because they were several generation deep copies made by a school district in big debt.
woah i expected like a simple vhs filter but the amount of work this video chose is really cool man
I’ve never seen history of Japan before this but I assume this is the definitive viewing experience.
I love how sexy times remains unchanged.
That is really crazy how you thought of making that. Amazing.
Timestamps (for captions):
0:09 what the hell is a vhs
0:13 1900 to 1940-ish (the cylinder era I think)
0:32 1948 to 1963 (wire recorder era)
0:59 1964 (8 track)
1:15 1964 (rca tape cartridge)
1:46 late 1960s (quadraplex)
2:05 1970s (P H I L I P S V C R)
2:22 1981-1986 (ced)
2:38 1986 (v2000 and u matic)
2:52 1986 (who’s going to be the next format)
3:10 1986-1987 (vhs’s rise)
3:41 1987 (laserdisc and s-vhs)
4:50 1987 (holy crap)
5:05 1987-1993 (actually nvm)
5:22 1993-1995 (goin digital)
5:33 1995-2000-ish (cgi and dv)
6:10 2000 (Format War 1)
7:15 2000-2002 (.com bubble)
7:42 2002-2006 (Format War 2)
8:26 2006-now (blu ray and hd dvd)
9:04 bye
I love how even at the very end you can still make out whats happening about half of the time (If you've watched the video before)
This was AWESOME!!!
the widescreen and vhs makes this look like some old cassette your history teacher pulled out for the class to watch
Excellent work! It's like I was really there.
Something about the early vhs recordings makes it feel like a video that got dragged into class on the tv cart. it was so warm and enjoyable
super cool vid✿ I enjoyed the visuals a lot
I love how the video turns more and more into quality of school papers
Bro, sick captions. Actually learned a decent bit.
8:31 “they actually drop 2”
Casually nukes Nagasaki
The captions were peak quality thank you
this is a genuen masterpiece, thank you for this video
random teacher who cant get over using VHS: finally i can show this to my class
I love how the captions are the format wars, literally
history of VHS, I guess
Yea these subtitles taught me more about analog video formats than anything else in the internet ever
It even deserves its own history of video, I guess
I didnt notice the captions until i was like a minute in and was immediately amazed lol
Generation 9 is when it starts looking like analog horror.
Nothing screams analog horror like “Knock, knock. It’s the United States.”
Wish the original video could be done also for many other countries, it's a marvelous summary
the captions are so awesome!!!
Like an old School VHS.
The surprise captions were a treat!!
Wish there was a version of the subtitles that showed what he actually said with the generation number.
This was awesome, I like how you put all that stuff in the captions! 😁
i like those captions you got there
I like the idea that america was so powerful with their guns with boats (gun boats) that it affected the video quality
4:50
The quality and economic prosperity gradually began to slow d- *gets nuked*
This looks like when aliens blew up earth and this is the last knowledge of history just there
Bill wurtz got into a time machine, went back to 1997 and made this video
people here saying that it's scary, idk, it's comfy in a way
I see the algorithm caught this video again! First view here, genuinely fascinating to see how it degrades. And hearing the audio slightly pitch up and down later on is wild.
We came for the Video but stayed for the subtitles
Timelapse of generation loss (I will include only image ok?)
Gen 1: Just Master VHS copy
Gen 2: Copy of MVHS - You Can see the grey bar appear on top
Gen 3: Double Copy of MVHS - Color Started Bleeding but its not that noticible, Color Started saturating on left bar. You can now see that the outlines are Thiccer
Gen 4: Color Started Bleeding (You can see on door or book), outlines are more white.
Gen 4 vid, 5 audio: Not much to say, Due to problem with transferring video uses gen 4 vid but gen 5 audio!
Gen 6 audio, 7 vid: Big jump! Video uses now Neon colors and high contrast! White Borders Are more noticible, Same with the bars. Sometimes Video Would start distorting!
Gen 7: Not a lot changes: Only Color is little more distorted
Gen 8: Text is a little harder to read
Gen 9: Major Distorsion Incoming! Video distortions Are now common! Also color is darker
Gen 10: Now Color doesn't appear at all for some moments! White borders more noticible and more distortion. Also i love the "Knock Knock, Its the United States" Moment
Gen 11: Fluctuating Color, By that it means that color doesnt fit the picture(except the bar) Also Picture most of the time is not fitting screen. More Distortion. you know the drill
Gen 12: Most of the text is UNREADABLE! Also weirdly enough picture is more stable than last generation! Also its the last generation that has ANY color at all.
Gen 13: COMPLETE DISTORTION! You still can see some text and picture but its REAL HARD. Picture doesnt stay! no more color!
Gen 14: You can't tell whats going anymore (Except some few Frames)
Gen 15: You should put this tape into trash can
Gen 16: The last gen that has ANY RECOGNIZABLE FRAMES
Gen 17: No more recognizable frames! you should burn this tape!
Gen 18(My fav): This tape is so bad it shows bluescreen when it says "VCR's" DESTROY THIS TAPE
4:53 *K nO C K k N OC k*
Being clickbated into learning about home video/audio formats. I like it.
This video slowly gets creepier as you go on until one point we're it gets static
This is how it feels when you use Personality A with Friend Group B on accident
very nice job 😊
turning on the subtitles was the best decision of my life. u need to make a whole ass vid on this this is super interesting
"painting with less colours"
*completely monochromatic*
For those wondering whether analog or digital is better, the 18th generation copy of a DVD will look and sound just as good as the first, as long as you use a high-quality format.
What I'd like to see is a standalone video of the master tape from start to end. No gen loss - just a recording of the master tape.
@@doctordothraki4378 Oh, dude. Letterbox all the way. And show it to Bill!
@@doctordothraki4378 Go right ahead! And while you're at it, why not make an 80s-style label and slap it on the tape?
@@doctordothraki4378 Ah, interesting.
@@doctordothraki4378 I missed the reply, holy smokes!
This might just be the greatest video ever made
this is really good, especially the captions.
also dang generation 13 and 14 is really just dying
and 15