I've still got my VHS player and quite a lot of home videos (that have since been converted to digital and stored away), as well as some original vhs movies, some well played and others rarely.<br> I popped in Hackers vhs to have a look at how bad it is, and honestly even though it's been played quite a lot mainly for the orbital sound track back in the day, it doesn't look anywhere near as bad as the blown out colours the VHS filter creates in this youtube video. Sure, there is a little bit, but it's mostly just where the video footage is just blurry, and on a CRT screen you can't tell. <br><br>Maybe I just looked after my tapes better, or it's part of the younger people expecting worse from VHS than it was. We have to remember that VHS did 1080i video back in the day as well, sure it was the D-VHS rather than S-VHS that most of use used but the quality was there. For the most part, it was on par with DVDs.