The things is, I don't think the filter looks very genuine.  It looks like code.  One of those weird situations where it just doesn't look "bad" in the right way.   I watched a VHS recently and it didn't have nearly as much distortion as the plug in does (and I've used the plug in), nor is the color as bad, and this goes for both PAL and NTSC tapes.,(reply>), In America they had a slight poorer VHS than we here in Europe. Their NTSC VHS was roughly equivalent to 333×480 pixels rather than our PAL VHS offered the equivalent of about 335×576 pixels.<br>While those filters might bring some nostalgic feeling to an american person, I guess a European one would only see a kind of way too bad retro imitation of what might have been the past...