I have never understood this kind of nostalgia. Magnetic media were painful to use back then and I don't look back on them fondly. There were aspects of the eighties and nineties worth remembering because they offer advantages or lessons that have been lost.<br><br>In particular,  I rather enjoy retro computing because those old 8 bit machines were simple to understand. Even today,  I think their simplicity is a great platform for learning how computing works without the layers of abstraction required to access the hardware required by modern operating systems. That's an advantage.<br><br>But there really isn't an advantage to poor quality video. It seems to me that if they REALLY want to be nostalgic,  they should spend a  little time respooling a hundred yards of kinked up tape back into a cassette in the hope that they might be able to watch its contents once again only to find out that tape is too damaged to play.  Now that is what the experience was really like.,(reply>), I don't want to come off as rude at all, so don't take it that way, but I get the feeling you were probably using magnetic media as an adult, as opposed to say me at 24 and folks a bit younger who's earliest memories are popping in a VHS tape and watching their favorite cartoon or movie, it's wrapped up in childhood nostalgia and is more about that than the visual appearance of the medium itself. Maybe I'm wrong but that's probably the difference, most kids wouldn't have even been aware of the inadequacies of the medium and therefor would have no critiques to look back on and temper the nostalgia.,(reply>), Rumford Chimpenstein A lot of home made VHSs were, especially when using faster tape speeds. Magnetic media also degrades over time and with use so a lot of surviving store bought VHS tapes have gotten that bad or worse.,(reply>), most vhs vids aren't nearly as bad as this filter makes them look tho