History of Japan but Every Time He Says 'In' it Gets Copied to Another VHS

VHS generational loss

This was originally going to have the word japan copy the tape, but by the 20th generation my VCRs were crapping out and motly showing blue screens

I used Sony VCRs in NTSC format with Japanese tapes! Does it get more Japanese than that?

Equipment used:

Sony SLV-N81 VCR (recording and playback)
Sony SLV-775HF VCR (playing for purposes of copying)
Sony T120 Premium Grade High Durability tape (even number generations)
TDK Premium Quality HS Tape (odd number generations)
Canopus ADVC110 (digital to analog transfer)
Dazzle DVC100 (HU3194, analog to digital transfer)

Virtualdub (analog to digital transfer)
Handbrake (digital file conversion)
Sony Movie Studio Platinum 14 Steam Edition (assembling and correcting video-audio sync)

[BlastoiseVeteran]

The subtitles taught me more about the timeline of video formats than everything I've learned on the internet.

[hallosx]

fucking love how the distortion gets so much worse when america shows up 4:52

[cheechunlimited]

I had no idea VHS generation loss was a thing until now, and I find it very interesting and disturbing

[zodiahk]

Amazing! I love VHS generation loss stuff, and the subtitles are good

[brandontechnerd]

4:50 [stable video]
4:53 [becomes jittery and washed out]

[FlyingPenguin]

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.

[renussy]

As someone who loves Bill Wurtz and someone who has recently become obsessed with VHS generation loss, this was made for me lol

[nushnum]

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

[ErgophobiaStudios]

The editing and the VHS combined make it look like it was actually an old tape in schools or TV.

[HardBloodNelza]

Normalize vhs effects making videos funnier instead of scary. This amazingly hilarious.

[swiftplays]

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.

[JunkerFunker]

The vhs effect is way better then any analog horror

[robrophside]

8:55: The image goes out the moment he says "VCRs".

[MMayel]

I want the subtitles as an actual parody, like a "History of VHS...i guess"

[HuskyDog]

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.

[driftliketokyoftw]

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.

[maymaystudio]

Once you get about 7 minutes in the audio is so distorted that your brain hears the subtitles instead of the actual audio

[kaffii]

bill wurtz is already vhs-

*_E V E N M O R E_*

[cscscscss]

this looks like a obscure history video from 1982 and i love it

[KnightSlasher]

It is nice to know that Japan had a major part in vhs history