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Published: 2012-03-09 02:35:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 8883; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 437
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I'll probably upload more of these if I find or make anything else glitchy and eye-catching on VHS.The videotape was filled with footage copied over from my miniDV camcorder onto VHS, and I distorted the crap out of it by using magnets, pinching it, and even chewing the tape. This was between a transition of 2 clips: one on a hiking trail in Serrania Park, the other on my street. It was recorded about a year ago in April, and I took this image just after I finished capturing it into my computer later that day. I think I paused the tape on this frame, so everything was jumping around and stuff. It was played in a normal hi-fi VCR system from 2005 or 2006.
This was captured on an EasyCap capture card (they aren't all that great, to be honest, but hey it's only $13 or something!) and the EasyCapViewer app for Mac.
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Yeah, It happened with me when I tried to copy a commercially released VHS tape to a blanK VHS tape. And the way VHS tape distorts the image is their way of saying "No, You may not copy a commercially released VHS tape on to a blank VHS tape. It's prohibited!" And I read the VCR instruction booklet. And there is a page called "Troubleshooting Guide". And of one of them is:
Problem: Distorted Image
Causes: You are trying to copy a commercially released VHS tape to a blank VHS tape.
Solutions: You cannot copy a commercially released VHS tape to a blank VHS tape. Most commercially released VHS tapes that are found in stores and video rental shops are Copy-Protected and should not be copied.
I now have a VHS/DVD recorder. If I transfer a commercial released VHS tape to DVD, My VHS/DVD will stop the VHS and I get this error message on the television screen that reads: "Recording Error!: This presentation is not allowed to be recorded."
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That's not at all what I did here. All the original content was created by myself and recorded directly from the source to blank consumer tapes through a video feed with a poor/broken signal that was achieved by manipulating the wiring itself to barely be able to operate, so the signal would constantly jump back in and out and flutter in between depending on how much electricity was able to pass from the wire to the input jack, resulting in a rather violent and interesting effect that can be recorded directly to the cassette.
Here are some videos with some content from the experiment: vimeo.com/36071409 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nee8p… (the framerate and quality is pretty terrible since I didn't have a timebase converter to help my crappy capture card read the more broken signals, and it skips a good amount of the frames. the actual experiment looks stunning in person when viewed on a proper CRT monitor without any frame loss from digital correction)
The visual artifacts obtained by duplicating a copy-protected videocassette is much different than the one in this image, and does not result in these kinds of electrically damaged signals.
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