It's a cool effect, it's just a pity that people from beyond that era will think VHS has stripes and off colours due to these effects (Well, maybe NTSC did...), celluloid film always has scratches due to that effect and cassettes sound lo-fi, due to that effect.<br>Whereas VHS is sharper and more vibrant than DVD when played on a really good, (semi-)professional machine (So is laserdisc, but that's another story), celluloid film only got scratched when mistreated (much like vinyl records, really ;)) and cassettes can sound better than any CD player ever did, give or take some background hiss. <br>It's weird how 'old' stuff is deemed 'worse than new stuff' and how at some point the worst properties of old stuff get a certain cult following. Much like for instance the whole Lomo thing. It's cool, but it's not like analog photography is worse than digital photography when using good equipment for both.