The subtitles taught me more about the timeline of video formats than everything I've learned on the internet.

fucking love how the distortion gets so much worse when america shows up 4:52

As someone who loves Bill Wurtz and someone who has recently become obsessed with VHS generation loss, this was made for me lol

8:28 This is actually very eerie

I had no idea VHS generation loss was a thing until now, and I find it very interesting and disturbing

With the vhs effect it looks like a 90s school presentation

4:50 [stable video] 4:53 [becomes jittery and washed out]

These captions are freaking awesome explaining the entire history of VHS, dude. Also I'm surprised the captions kept going even when the video quality went haywire.

8:55: The image goes out the moment he says "VCRs".

VHS is a format by the e-waste filled with nostalgia and it’s A N A L O G! In the year 1890, recordings might not have existed. In the year 1900 they did exist, and you could listen to them! And some people listened to them, then it got large, the cylinder flattened, it became marketable and now there’s lots of players because it’s marketable. So now there’s record on the market, they’re basically sort of hanging out in between the store shelves, selling for profit and using the latest technology, like needles and speed control. DING DONG! It’s the innovators, and they technology from the future, like wire recording and crazy record times. Now you can store a lot of sound, really really compactly. That means if you own the recorder, you own a lot of capacity, which is something that everybody needs to entertain, so that makes you dominant. Wire recordings and wire recorders spread across the market all the way to here. The most important formats were this, this, this, this, this, this and this, but this one was the most important, known as Webster-Chicago, or portable for short. Knock Knock! Get the door, it’s tape! The new prince wants everyone to use this hot new storage medium called 8-track. “Please, try this storage medium!” He said “NO” said everybody “Try it!” He said “No…” said everyone again, quieter this time. And so the standard was put into place, and all the players that came with it. The the market was taken over by RCA tape cartridge. And they made some reforms, like making the audio less noisy and making the audio more like vinyl’s audio that’s less noisy. “Hi vinyl”, they said “Hi scrawny” said vinyl “Can you call us something else other than scrawny?” Said cassette. “Like what?” Said vinyl “How about portable?” And they stole vinyl’s market share and made a store. For themselves. And then they make a lot of audiobooks and music and another store for themselves. Then they stopped changing the format every time something new came out and kept it as one standard for a while. Audio cassette. And they conquered Europe, finally. Get that squared away. A rich format named Quadraplex is bored with linear tape scan visits vinyl and learns a better scan which is more helical, then it comes back, invents home video tape and causes TV playback to be great for a long time. And the professional equipment turned into such a dream world of preservation that they really didn’t give a shit about the consumers. So if you work outside the studio, how are you supposed to protect your sanity from missed shows? PHILLIPS VCR. Everyone started using the Phillips VCR. Rich important people used Phillips VCR, poor people who could not afford to use Phillips VCR did not use Phillips VCR. VCR became organized and prolific, more prolific than Quadraplex. So they made their own compact cassette store here. They let Quadraplex stay in the studios, but VCR is actually in control. BREAKING NEWS, the CED has invaded the market. “We’ve invaded the market” said CED “Please respect us, or else we might put you out of business”. “Okay” said VCR. So CED came over, ready to sell, and died in the competition. But they tried again and had a nice time fighting with VCR, and died in the competition. The V2000 overthrows VCR, then U-Matic overthrows him back and moved to Japan and males a new format. And V2000 can still use the VCR logo if he wants, that’s fine. Now there’s more content! Like recording from TV, home video sales, personal memories, sexy times, tape rentals, camcorder plugin, multi-timers, time-shifting. It’s time for who’s going to be the next format. Usually it’s U-Matic’s kid, but U-Matic doesn’t have a kid, so he tries to get a new cassette to come out of prototypes and have more tape, called VHS. VHS says okay, but then U-Matic has a kid, called Beta. So now who’s gonna be? Vote now with your money. And everyone voted so hard that the discussion caught on fire and burned down. U-Matic actually didn’t care, he was off somewhere doing professional stuff, and so the whole market descended into a format war. Everyone is fighting with each other for local power, and it’s anybody’s game. Knock knock, it’s competition. No, they’re not here to decide the winner, they just wanna sell features, like tape speeds and descrambling, and HIGH-FIDELITY. So that’s cool, but they’re both still fighting each other for control, now with Hi-Fi. And wouldn’t it be nice to control the distributors, which right now is puppets with no one dominant? Beta is ready to make a run for it, but first they have to trample this younger format (VHS) which is in the way. Surprise, VHS wins, and JVC steals the idea of invading distributors and invades the distributors, and it goes very well. He’s about halfway though conquering the market when LaserDisc kills them, and then S-VHS kills them, and S-VHS finishes conquering the market, and then he confiscated everybody’s Beta tapes, and made some standards. “And now I’m going to invade the sea, and then hopefully, space” he said, and failed, and also stagnated. But before he stagnated, he told these five companies to take care of the format until it’s advanced enough to rule the world. The five companies said “YEAH RIGHT… It’s not gonna be S-VHS, It’s gonna be normal VHS, because it’s ubiquitous”. And it’s probably going to be Sony, who happens to be way more rich and powerful than the others. Then people support him, but the content makers supported not supporting him. They have a fight and the people win! And starts a new video store right here: BLOCKBUSTER, and still lets V2000 use the VCR logo and flip tapes. But don’t get confused, this is the new format. And they’re very strict, so strict that they close the market. No format can come in and none may spin off, except for VHS-C if they want to record from camcorders, but they need to use and adapter. Now that the formats weren’t at war with themselves, adoption increased a lot. Businesses used them, schools used them, house used them, everybody learned to time-shift, movies were sold, there was action, horror, sexy times, low quality shows and linear edition. People started studying tape editing using techniques they learned from the cassette. We’re talking spicing, dubbing, scratching, generation loss, careful planning, and maybe even effects. Over time the quality and economic prosperity gradually began to slow down- KNOCKKNOCK, IT’S CD VIDEO. WITH SMALL DISCS, OF GOLD GOLD DISKS

The editing and the VHS combined make it look like it was actually an old tape in schools or TV.

4:53 is probably my most favorite scene from this video. I guess it just feels like analog horror in my opinion I guess idk.

Amazing! I love VHS generation loss stuff, and the subtitles are good

I want the subtitles as an actual parody, like a "History of VHS...i guess"

The vhs effect is way better then any analog horror

Note to self: use the master copy to record on other tapes with. Or you can go digital and transfer the video directly to DVD. So you can watch it over and over again and it wont degrade like this over time.

Close to the end I can feel and hear the player trying it’s hardest to keep the image stable. But it just struggles, until it gives up and gives us a blue screen.

bill wurtz is already vhs- *_E V E N M O R E_*

Normalize vhs effects making videos funnier instead of scary. This amazingly hilarious.

Once you get about 7 minutes in the audio is so distorted that your brain hears the subtitles instead of the actual audio

PERFECT video for a meme like this.

5:41 is pretty much how TV looked when I was a kid and we had three over air channels from a town an hour drive away. Core memory unlocked. And we loved it, we didn't care, it was TV!

It is nice to know that Japan had a major part in vhs history

*Alternative Title* History of Japan But It’s On VHS And Every Time He Says "In" It Suffers From Generation Loss

For some reason I think gen 8 fits it perfectly

8:31 “they actually drop 2” Casually nukes Nagasaki

I want a VHS version of History of Japan. Seems like the medium it was meant to be on

'' I used Sony VCRs in NTSC format with Japanese tapes! Does it get more Japanese than that? '' Yes it does ! , the tape's plastic casings must be in funky colors ! :p

this looks like a obscure history video from 1982 and i love it

My gen-Z humour had me absolutely dying with “Y O U ‘ V E G O T M A I L” amidst the static

Now this is painting with less colors!

I like how when he says "VCR" it turns blue. It's almost like the video knows.

This feels like a fever dream of a educational video from the 1990s

i find it amazing how i can still kinda see what's going on by the end because of how many times i've watched history of japan

4:53 *K nO C K k N OC k*

I'm so glad the color and image stabilized for the wwi explanation

One of the best contemporary history lessons I've ever witnessed - I'm already rewinding it with a Bic pen for a rewatch!

4:50 The quality and economic prosperity gradually began to slow d- *gets nuked*

I love how sexy times remains unchanged.

This feels as though i'm watching an old recording in a shoddy bunker of a Country's history, and that it's becoming worse and worse over time due to some kind of effect of a superweapon of the war that has almost completely obliterated the tape, and there are barely any comprehendable fragments left of it

mmmm love me some high quality generation loss in 60fps

This is a meme in the making because this video is PERFECT just for that!

Educational, informative, funny, and geeky. Now i understand the Format Wars. I love it.

(yes I know I'm 4 years late to the party, but) It's interesting to see that the audio quality, although mostly unchanged, just keeps on getting LOUDER! The reason why VHS generation loss happens is because the bandwidth of the tape is not enough to carry the full NTSC/PAL signal, so it's like a repeated low-pass filtration, but the audio track of the tape is effectively a mono Compact Cassette tape, which has more than enough bandwidth for good quality audio, so the generational loss happens at frequencies we can't hear. I suspect the getting louder is an issue with the recording, where one VCR records the audio slightly too "hot", and really shouldn't happen.

Ive never seen subtitles with more effort than this. You must really like Bill Wurtz

I wish I could thumb up this more. The way you linked format history and wars with the OG Bill Wurtz video is nothing short of spectacular. Bravo, you can be proud of yourself!

Its very unsettling when it gets more corrupted as it gets in to WW2 especially when the mention "those guys"

I’ve never seen history of Japan before this but I assume this is the definitive viewing experience.

love it that as soon the video mentions VCR's the VHS just give up

7:24 Better than the original

Thanks fam this video answered a lot of questions I had about VHS tapes as a kid.

I was more interested in how you wrote the captions than the actual video, even though I already knew(some) of it. Good job XD

Most of the generation loss is interesting, but there's one part that somehow got pretty dark by coincidence. At 8:26, the worst of the distortion kicks in right it says "but they hadn't used the bomb yet, & they were curious & wanted to see how it works, so they dropped it on Japan---" & then it *cuts off* & the distortion sounds like explosions as the image tears apart. 😨

This is how it feels when you use Personality A with Friend Group B on accident

I love the history lesson in the subtitles, super creative!

This is an incredible video. First for the concept and the execution, second for the story told in the captions

The captions were creatively built upon the original script, props to you.

4:54 this is actually scary

woah i expected like a simple vhs filter but the amount of work this video chose is really cool man

This looks like when aliens blew up earth and this is the last knowledge of history just there

as someone who loves the history of video formats, the captions are hilarious and real asf i love rhis video!!

Bill wurtz got into a time machine, went back to 1997 and made this video

This was awesome, I like how you put all that stuff in the captions! 😁

Beginning to realize that the reason a lot of the videos I watched in grade school during "movie days" were so low quality is likely because they were several generation deep copies made by a school district in big debt.

this is a genuen masterpiece, thank you for this video

I love how even at the very end you can still make out whats happening about half of the time (If you've watched the video before)

super cool vid✿ I enjoyed the visuals a lot

That is really crazy how you thought of making that. Amazing.

random teacher who cant get over using VHS: finally i can show this to my class

The captions were peak quality thank you

Something about the early vhs recordings makes it feel like a video that got dragged into class on the tv cart. it was so warm and enjoyable

This was AWESOME!!!

I didnt notice the captions until i was like a minute in and was immediately amazed lol

Bro, sick captions. Actually learned a decent bit.

the captions are so awesome!!!

Like an old School VHS.

Excellent work! It's like I was really there.

I love how the video turns more and more into quality of school papers

Generation 9 is when it starts looking like analog horror.

Wish the original video could be done also for many other countries, it's a marvelous summary

i spent about half the entire video not knowing that the captions were specially designed around the topic of video formats

I love how the captions are the format wars, literally

Interestingly the voice was the only thing that didn't get extremely distorted

The surprise captions were a treat!!

history of VHS, I guess Yea these subtitles taught me more about analog video formats than anything else in the internet ever It even deserves its own history of video, I guess

TWO videos in one with those epic subtitles

knock knock get the door it’s tape (1:00 subtitles)

this is so good!!!

7:25 hOw bOuT i dOo aNywAyYyyY

I see the algorithm caught this video again! First view here, genuinely fascinating to see how it degrades. And hearing the audio slightly pitch up and down later on is wild.

Seeing things on VHS video reminds me of TV day at elementary school, watching all of the low quality science tapes with muffled sound quality.

The sound distortion made this 10 times funnier, especially at the very end

the captions are actually p accurate ngl

I’ve been subscribed to you since Opposite Day series

this is really good, especially the captions. also dang generation 13 and 14 is really just dying and 15

This might just be the greatest video ever made

This video slowly gets creepier as you go on until one point we're it gets static

I went into the doobly doo to find the link to the original, cause halfway through I just felt like watching it regular Then I saw that you actually used real tape, so I'll finish this one for the effort put in

Wow I can’t believe you did subtitles for the whole thing

I love how the audio is still comprehensible