I think one of the problems with adding the imperfections is you add too much of them.<br>The image is going to be soft and the colors will be washed out but when you had a good tape and good VCR you didn't get a lot of "glitches" like the "pop lines" and "scrolling wrinkles".<br>I recorded plenty of TV shows on VHS and rarely had any of those. Like I said when you had a good tape and good VCR it was rare. The tape would have to be very worn to see those.<br>Pre-recorded tapes (like movies bought from a store) never really had any of that.,(reply>), REMEMBER that most 1960s to Mid-90s TV shows were recorded or stored on analog tape (Umatic, Betamax, VHS, Betacam, S-VHS).  When released for sale to customers, they don’t look anywhere as bad as this VHS tape filter<br><br>.