History Main / DeliberateVHSQuality

** [=Timecop1983=]'s video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkQ6H21QBXE "Let's Talk"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAxSVf7zoD8 "My First Crush"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEYNRi9ufWs "Secrets"]]...and pretty much the majority of their other music videos.

** [=Timecop1983=]'s video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkQ6H21QBXE "Let's Talk"]].

* The opening logo on music videos for the synthwave band Gunship.

* This trope is extremely popular within the Retrowave genre, since the genre is all about striving for a 1980's aesthetic. Some examples:

** Timecop1983's video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkQ6H21QBXE "Let's Talk"]].

* The video for Blue Helix]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRE0W1vqFaY "Anodyne"]] boasts being recorded completely with analog video equipment.

* With [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vhs-camcorder-the-1-vhs-cam/id679454835?mt=8 this handy VHS camcorder app]] you too can make videos on your smart phone look like they were recorded on a 30 year old camcorder. Superfluous tracking lines included.

* Vaoprwave artist Ian Felpel's video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZBeqVHqiQ8 "N O T H I N G"]].

* The WebAnimation/YoutubePoop video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqf6PXw5cRk "Hyrule Visits 1993"]] by iteachvader achieves this effect with a video filter in Sony Vegas.

** Rose and Greg's tape for Steven is presented with a lot of film scratch and even has darkened edges, to emphasise that it was made with old technology from before Steven was born. [[spoiler:The tape for Nora is even more degraded, thanks to it being in the desert unprotected for fourteen years.]]
** "The Big Show" is almost entirely shown in the same quality as the old "For Steven" tape, because [[InvokedTrope Steven is filming a documentary and wants the footage to look as old and authentic as possible.]]

See also: {{Retraux}}, DeliberatelyMonochrome. Related to DecadeThemedFilter.

* Vaoprwave artist Ian Felpel's video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZBeqVHqiQ8 "N O T H I N G".

* [[The music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-SDVrm8N0Q]]for the song "Youth" by Numbxers.

** In 2017, his second video on the ''Wiki/SPCFoundation'' was treated as an exploration of an old VHS-tape he found, complete with VHS-quality footage, to create the story of a 90s company called "Dilley's" leaking SCP-information through the use of a bargain-bin tape.

Usually when this shows up, the artist or director either achieves this through a computer effect, or they find an actual degraded VHS video cassette to film on; the more warped the better, as it wouldn't be as obvious if they used a well-preserved tape. One thing for younger viewers who don't remember the UsefulNotes/{{VCR}} to note is that actual picture quality on VHS could vary; it wouldn't have been considered at least passable as a video format for more than twenty years, even beating out the technically superior Betamax and [[UsefulNotes/LaserDisc]], had it always looked so warped. Often times usage of this trope is almost a type of StylisticSuck. Since the 2010's, this has become a way of establishing a time period as being in the 1980's or 90's, in much the way filming in black and white has for the early to mid 20th century, and can be meant to invoke nostalgia.

Usually when this shows up, the artist or director either achieves this through a computer effect, or they find an actual degraded VHS video cassette to film on; the more warped the better, as it wouldn't be as obvious if they used a well-preserved tape. One thing for younger viewers who don't remember the UsefulNotes/{{VCR}} to note is that actual picture quality on VHS could vary; it wouldn't have been considered at least passable as a video format for more than twenty years had it always looked so warped. Often times usage of this trope is almost a type of StylisticSuck. Since the 2010's, this has become a way of establishing a time period as being in the 1980's or 90's, in much the way filming in black and white has for the early to mid 20th century, and can be meant to invoke nostalgia.

* With [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vhs-camcorder-the-1-vhs-cam/id679454835?mt=8 this handy VHS camcorder app]] you too can make videos on your smart phone look like they are recorded on a 30 year old camcorder. Superfluous tracking lines included.