Not seen this 2008 YT video before, some here might like to observe how re-recording VHS sourced material over 23 generations sees the content disappear and when the distinct stages of loss of detail and features occur .....
Especially enjoyed the demonstration of this on Channel 4 - using familiar bit of material - from 1991's The Secret Life of Machines... Skip to around 21:00:
Very interesting, but somehow eerie. Glad we've switched to Digital.
Yes, that's one thing about digital- as long as you're just directly copying the footage, and not doing any sort of conversion and transcoding you can copy something a million times and it will still be exactly the same as the original.
All familar though, I have a VHS tape full of low quality multi-gen copies of old pres material that I was sent around 2004-ish!
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Speaking on Hunkin, I was at London Zoo a couple of weeks back, and there's a clock he designed outside the bird house there. Though the fact it was running 15 minutes slow doesn't speak too well for it...