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Hello..Fascination overcomes me with this thread. I have wondered this myself
My father and mother have VHS tapes, taken on an '86ish Hitachi camcorder in 86-88, which exhibit virtually ZERO degradation when viewed today....However, there are a pile of VHS tapes taken in '84 or so on an unknown machine owned by my great-uncle, which are quite lousy and are barely viewable.
The good tapes: TDK 'hi-fi' standard
The bad: JVC archival, ironically.
Which leads me to believe that the machine which recorded the programme originally, is the most important factor.
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