People always reply to things like this by saying "VHS Wasn't this bad!  You young wippersnappers don't remember ... etc etc etc."  And it's true that if you had an expensive VCR and nice, professional tapes, VHS could look as good as a DVD.<br>But, growing up, I didn't have an expensive VCR. My dad bought the cheapest one money could buy.  And my tapes weren't professionally made.  They were taped off cable, in long-play mode, onto tapes that I reused about a million times.<br>With analog media, the quality of the playback drastically depends on your equipment, and I can tell you that my $25 VCR looked a lot more like this video than a DVD.<br><br>It's like record players. Yeah, an expensive, modern one sounds amazing. But try listening to the kind of cheapo record player a teenager would have owned in the 70s.  Awful.,(reply>), I still record live HDTV using a Super VHS vcr.  The end result looks near-DVD in quality.  (But of course standard VHS looks inferior &amp; blurred.)<br><br>.,(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>.,(reply>), i have a very expensive VCR, at goodwill it costed 10 dollars.<br>No i am not being ironic, that is expensive for a VCR, and i have to say, its just dvd with darker colors.,(reply>), @randomguy8196 generally video made from the same master will look slightly better on a dvd than laserdisc. Laserdisc can still win if the dvd compression is bad such as the Criterion sets of Robocop.<br>However, laserdiscs send out a natively composite signal while dvd can use HDMI. So it's much harder to get the best possible playback from LD.,(reply>), But no, VHS could not ever, EVER look as good as DVD, unless you made a DVD from a VHS tape.  DVD has its own limitations that nobody ever talks about, but its color range is far less limiting than VHS's, and no amount of tweaking a VHS design could fix that.