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The "Angry Video Game Nerd" guy did a similar thing with two VHS tapes, copying a video back and forth over and over: http://www.cinemassacre.com/2010/05/26/vh
by chaosmachine 16y ago
The "Angry Video Game Nerd" guy did a similar thing with two VHS tapes, copying a video back and forth over and over:
http://www.cinemassacre.com/2010/05/26/vhs-generation-loss/ http://www.cinemassacre.com/2010/05/26/vhs-generation-loss/
- igravious 16y agoso: prior art?!
- studer 16y agoIt's his take on Alvin Lucier's famous "I Am Sitting in a Room": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfssj80oNuM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfssj80oNuM The original recording is linked from the Mashable article.
- nitrogen 16y agoAs was alluded to in the comments there, most of the loss was probably due to stretching and demagnetization of the two tapes. Generational loss would most likely consist of horizontal scanline offset (due to time base skew) and horizontal blurring, though eventually the time may get off far enough to cause some of the other artifacts seen in that video.