1 00:00:00,060 --> 00:00:05,759 high definition VHS tape you ever seen 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:10,380 one of these me neither but for a short period of time in the early 2000s you 3 00:00:08,340 --> 00:00:17,580 could actually build out a high definition home theater using digital 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:20,939 VHS or dvhs cassette tapes now it's only 5 00:00:17,580 --> 00:00:23,460 1080i rather than 1080p but come on this 6 00:00:20,939 --> 00:00:29,039 was too 2002 all right and besides that's still well over four times the 7 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:34,320 resolution of regular VHS and over double DVD it's actually even on par 8 00:00:31,619 --> 00:00:40,559 with some early Blu-ray discs so we spent the last two years and over a 9 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:43,440 thousand US Dollars going back in time 10 00:00:40,559 --> 00:00:49,260 to see what life would have been like if our dads had been both rich and geeky 11 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:54,480 enough to go D theater this was an adventure and a half guys did you know 12 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:56,579 that some plasma TVs have firewire input 13 00:00:54,480 --> 00:01:00,300 well I sure didn't which is why we had to buy two of them when we bought the 14 00:00:58,199 --> 00:01:04,500 wrong one this whole thing was a nightmare honestly but we finally got 15 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:09,420 everything working and we can tell you once and for all is it any good and why 16 00:01:07,439 --> 00:01:13,979 did it fail oh and who's our sponsor origin PC origin PC is offering Black 17 00:01:12,479 --> 00:01:19,200 Friday deals on their award-winning systems get 500 off a Corsair Voyager 18 00:01:16,979 --> 00:01:22,860 origin Edition or an exclusive peripherals bundle when purchasing a 19 00:01:20,939 --> 00:01:27,479 custom desktop top using the link down below our first challenge was finding a 20 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:31,380 movie that was available across every format we wanted to compare all of them 21 00:01:29,460 --> 00:01:35,579 having identical 2 hour and 26 minute runtimes the biggest difference between 22 00:01:33,479 --> 00:01:40,020 these versions of the hurricane starring Denzel Washington is of course the 23 00:01:38,159 --> 00:01:42,900 resolution that they play back you like the hurricane right it's like your 24 00:01:41,340 --> 00:01:48,479 favorite movie of all time I have the biggest collection of the hurricane 25 00:01:44,340 --> 00:01:52,920 films other anyone I know yeah 26 00:01:48,479 --> 00:01:56,540 we've got VHS which outputs at 240i DVD 27 00:01:52,920 --> 00:02:00,479 which outputs at 480p widescreen 28 00:01:56,540 --> 00:02:02,820 dvhs which outputs at 1080i with Dolby 29 00:02:00,479 --> 00:02:09,119 Digital 5.1 surround and of course Blu-ray which does full HD 1080p I have 30 00:02:07,140 --> 00:02:14,700 to confess until this was brought up in a writer's meeting two years ago I had 31 00:02:11,340 --> 00:02:16,560 no idea that this format ever existed I 32 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:21,660 didn't know it existed either but it's really impressive it'll do up to 28.2 33 00:02:19,319 --> 00:02:27,840 megabit per second which is over double the bit rate of DVD and because it uses 34 00:02:24,959 --> 00:02:32,220 the exact same form factor as traditional VHS the players are actually 35 00:02:30,180 --> 00:02:39,420 backwards compatible so they can play both dvhs tapes and regular VHS tapes of 36 00:02:35,940 --> 00:02:41,580 course the tapes are not quite exactly 37 00:02:39,420 --> 00:02:44,700 the same Gothic yeah this thing looks pretty similar it's the back so it's 38 00:02:43,140 --> 00:02:48,180 just these tiny little holes aside from being like one is digital and one is 39 00:02:46,739 --> 00:02:52,739 analog that's pretty much the only difference right I guess that's probably 40 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:56,580 worth explaining how you can put Digital Data onto a magnetic tape if you think 41 00:02:54,720 --> 00:03:01,920 about it it's not that different from how you can record data to a Spinning 42 00:02:59,220 --> 00:03:06,540 Disk in either an analog or digital format so a record is a spinning piece 43 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:11,400 of plastic with little analog bumps in it while a CD still has the exact same 44 00:03:09,239 --> 00:03:15,959 bumps but they're digitally encoded data which makes it much more efficient and 45 00:03:13,019 --> 00:03:20,580 in fact tape is still very widely in use today in the data center which is real 46 00:03:18,060 --> 00:03:24,959 slow do you know if the film itself like the tape film is different it looks 47 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:30,000 thinner maybe yeah just pull it out right what's the worst that could happen 48 00:03:26,340 --> 00:03:31,920 in the dvhs tape there's more film it 49 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:35,940 might be thinner I don't know but there's definitely more tape in there 50 00:03:33,599 --> 00:03:40,799 this is probably a nice VCR I would think this thing is like top of the line 51 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:45,959 for when it came out look at this remote iPod eat your heart out the original 52 00:03:43,799 --> 00:03:50,879 touch wheel this bad boy outputs a maximum 53 00:03:48,180 --> 00:03:56,879 resolution of 1080i features active Cooling and most importantly got the D 54 00:03:54,120 --> 00:04:02,099 theater logo that's very important that means it can play D theater tapes and in 55 00:03:59,519 --> 00:04:06,480 defeater mode it actually runs at high speed instead of standard play it's more 56 00:04:04,739 --> 00:04:12,120 data and it has to get through it faster to actually read it properly that's sick 57 00:04:09,900 --> 00:04:18,359 the most important thing though is that it has ilink firewire output we will 58 00:04:16,260 --> 00:04:26,100 explain more about that later first we need to talk about our TV it might be a 59 00:04:21,060 --> 00:04:29,100 flat panel but this 1280 by 768 plasma 60 00:04:26,100 --> 00:04:31,400 weighs over a hundred pounds and its 61 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:38,160 notable features include it's gigantic 50 inch panel it's integrated carrying 62 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:44,220 handles and its support for i-link firewire input again more on that later 63 00:04:40,740 --> 00:04:45,780 first we watch okay when I first set up 64 00:04:44,220 --> 00:04:51,000 dvhs and put it I was like oh this doesn't look that good but then I put 65 00:04:47,580 --> 00:04:53,820 the VHS in and oh my God I forgot how 66 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:58,740 bad it looks it's it's not great I mean I don't remember having a problem with 67 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:01,199 it but then again I spent most of my VHS 68 00:04:58,740 --> 00:05:06,240 watching years watching on a screen that was literally 12 inches oh wow I had one 69 00:05:04,259 --> 00:05:11,170 of those little uh ones in my room that had the built-in vhr yeah exactly what 70 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:13,080 you're talking about wow this 71 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:21,360 I thought you had to go farther back to find problematic elements of film 72 00:05:18,900 --> 00:05:26,460 technology yeah but people with dark skin in this movie they do not get 73 00:05:24,660 --> 00:05:31,800 captured properly no the contrast looks terrible even the color here it's all 74 00:05:28,259 --> 00:05:33,780 like just really washed out and Bland it 75 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:38,340 should be noted that this might not be properly representative of the 76 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:43,440 experience of playing back this VHS tape when it was brand new the rated lifespan 77 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:47,940 of a tape that's being stored correctly is 10 to 25 years assuming it made it 78 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:51,960 the full 25 years we should be in good shape but it could have degraded in that 79 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:55,440 time yeah but then when we paused and it's not moving you can see how bad like 80 00:05:53,820 --> 00:06:00,000 the stair stepping and stuff is on everything I can barely read that signed 81 00:05:57,780 --> 00:06:05,759 cash only but like I can understand what I'm watching oh yeah but there's a ton 82 00:06:02,220 --> 00:06:07,919 of detail that's just not here but is 83 00:06:05,759 --> 00:06:12,240 present when we watch content on like a 4K Blu-ray or you know even just like a 84 00:06:10,620 --> 00:06:18,720 Netflix stream or something like that oh yeah it's time to go HD 85 00:06:16,139 --> 00:06:22,319 whoa whoa I link now let me check oh it's 86 00:06:20,580 --> 00:06:26,460 definitely an island ploof you can't tell no no 87 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:31,080 I'm not sure it's not going over RCA just to just double it's not just to 88 00:06:29,100 --> 00:06:35,460 have a seat it's not wow it's pretty crazy huh the dynamic 89 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:42,960 range is like wild the contrast differences this would have made my eyes 90 00:06:38,460 --> 00:06:44,580 fall out of my sockets in 2002 right on 91 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:48,660 a lot of these they even had something similar to a chapter select wow yeah 92 00:06:46,740 --> 00:06:51,840 with like a menu and everything so you could like Tecmo and showed it off in 93 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:57,419 their video from like six years ago but I couldn't get it to work on this this 94 00:06:54,419 --> 00:06:59,160 so good I know I know there are problems 95 00:06:57,419 --> 00:07:05,460 though if I hit pause for example because it's moving at such a high speed 96 00:07:02,699 --> 00:07:09,539 but then play okay that play takes a second to kick back and the problem is 97 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:13,860 it's still counting up give it a sec it'll go 98 00:07:11,039 --> 00:07:18,380 okay but see we're completely gone from that one scene so pausing and playing 99 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:23,340 was not but look how clear that text was tilting past it I know the only thing 100 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:26,819 that really tripped me up when watching this was the amount of film grain you 101 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:32,099 can see yeah well that's the thing any HD movie back then was shot on film 102 00:07:29,220 --> 00:07:36,539 right it's not like we had Red digital cinema cameras okay my family didn't 103 00:07:34,380 --> 00:07:41,580 have money right so like in the in the early 2000s I didn't even know anybody 104 00:07:39,060 --> 00:07:50,400 who had a TV like no we were stoked to get flat screen CRTs you know not uh 105 00:07:46,020 --> 00:07:53,160 oh a little spicy if you told me that 106 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:58,080 this was just a modern setup not HDR sure like obviously I can tell it's not 107 00:07:54,780 --> 00:08:00,660 HDR I'd be like okay yeah for a short 108 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:05,220 period there plasma TVs were super in demand when you get anything with good 109 00:08:02,759 --> 00:08:09,360 blacks oh yeah now I haven't seen a DVD in a while it actually looks a lot 110 00:08:07,139 --> 00:08:13,680 better than I expected and that's when I originally discovered that this was not 111 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:18,360 1080i that this was 720. I can already tell this is a noticeably softer image 112 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:21,960 it does look worse yeah it looks way worse it looks way better than VHS 113 00:08:20,220 --> 00:08:27,259 that's the thing you don't get that obvious stair stepping all over the 114 00:08:25,020 --> 00:08:33,180 image I don't think it looks way everything from the top of his hair to 115 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:39,120 the bottom of the frame is completely crushed you entirely lose the detail in 116 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:43,919 his face he might be acting but we have no idea because the color depth is not 117 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:47,399 good enough and the contrast is not good enough that's what double the bit rate 118 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:51,600 gets you it's not all about resolution and you see the blocking in the sky as 119 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:55,440 well okay pause is not fair but let's put it in motion sure it's not as not as 120 00:08:54,120 --> 00:09:01,019 bad in motion but that contrast that dynamic range 121 00:08:57,779 --> 00:09:03,300 yeah it sucks that's pretty terrible any 122 00:09:01,019 --> 00:09:10,740 surface with texture oh yeah it disappears a blocky smeary yes it's a 123 00:09:06,660 --> 00:09:13,260 blur going from VHS to DVD was already 124 00:09:10,740 --> 00:09:16,560 such a step up for people for the additional cost 125 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:21,060 of the theater you had already bought a DVD player to 126 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:27,240 get 480p you want to Shell out even more to get a d theater player to go back to 127 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:29,399 VHS back when dvhs first came out before 128 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:34,019 D theater The Players actually started at around 2 000 US dollars we'll put in 129 00:09:32,519 --> 00:09:38,760 the Blu-ray on the same player we got our fancy Panasonic yeah this is the one 130 00:09:36,420 --> 00:09:41,580 we used for 4K Blu-ray yeah so this is better 131 00:09:39,959 --> 00:09:47,339 know that this looks better than the dvhs it might not be as good of a master 132 00:09:44,279 --> 00:09:48,899 there is so much film grain totally I 133 00:09:47,339 --> 00:09:53,279 don't know if it looks better at all no no I don't think it does no then the DVD 134 00:09:50,940 --> 00:09:57,360 yeah then the VHS yeah but then the dvhs no maybe if we had more degradation on 135 00:09:55,620 --> 00:10:01,200 our dvhs we'd think that it looks better but I mean the reality is not a lot of 136 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:08,100 people were buying those so we don't have to rewind anything yeah 137 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:11,580 fast forward chapter select scene skipping in general can just happen we 138 00:10:10,260 --> 00:10:16,380 don't have to sit there and wait for it to go actually read the text in the book 139 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,899 yeah oh look how blown out the whole Sky 140 00:10:16,380 --> 00:10:23,700 oh god let's go back to D theater for a sec I 141 00:10:21,060 --> 00:10:29,700 don't know which Master copy of this film was used to create the Blu-ray but 142 00:10:26,940 --> 00:10:34,860 whatever it was actually could have also degraded perhaps even to a greater 143 00:10:31,980 --> 00:10:41,519 degree than our d-theater tape it is possible for a superior format of the 144 00:10:38,399 --> 00:10:44,940 movie like a Blu-ray to look worse in 145 00:10:41,519 --> 00:10:46,740 some ways than an inferior format of the 146 00:10:44,940 --> 00:10:50,519 same movie Sometimes when they're upscaling an older film they'll actually 147 00:10:48,660 --> 00:10:57,300 process it in a way that film enthusiasts feel degrades The Experience 148 00:10:53,399 --> 00:10:59,220 rewind one thing I like is that there's 149 00:10:57,300 --> 00:11:04,320 no rewind lines so it's going let me grab this Frame let me grab this Frame 150 00:11:01,019 --> 00:11:06,540 rather than let me read this stream that 151 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:10,880 is coming past me see this is too far back I think oh listen to this thing go 152 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:18,959 wow she rips oh absolutely you can totally read the 153 00:11:17,100 --> 00:11:21,839 text on the book yeah a little sharper on the Blu-ray I think I like this grade 154 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:28,800 better I think so too I think the color pops more look how much more detail you can 155 00:11:26,399 --> 00:11:33,839 see in his face and on that jacket this is the best copy of the hurricane 156 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:37,860 what the did you see how much better he looked even even when the 157 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:43,200 books uh right there fall down off the forklift or whatever they're so vibrant 158 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:46,800 all of them again it's not HDR but this 159 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:49,079 is a really good SDR grade see even 160 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:53,640 though he's supposed to be naturally lit so you have that that that that shadow 161 00:11:51,540 --> 00:11:57,779 cast on the side of his face you can see the detail you can see his expression 162 00:11:55,260 --> 00:12:03,660 you can see the actors acting this is actually a better movie you are 163 00:12:01,380 --> 00:12:07,920 capturing more of what's happening this is a big difference this is not the 164 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:11,459 result I was expecting to really you thought you were gonna like crap all 165 00:12:09,540 --> 00:12:16,440 over dvhs no I thought the Blu-ray would be obviously better though 166 00:12:13,339 --> 00:12:19,760 mastering matters more than resolution 167 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:19,760 at a certain point 168 00:12:22,519 --> 00:12:28,740 I feel the same rage that I've read on 169 00:12:26,399 --> 00:12:34,620 Forum post so many times over the years when a new grade a new master of a movie 170 00:12:32,339 --> 00:12:41,279 comes out like a treasured movie and it's like why so what end you 171 00:12:38,220 --> 00:12:44,639 already had a good one I want a dvhs 172 00:12:41,279 --> 00:12:47,700 collection now oh my God the first dvhs 173 00:12:44,639 --> 00:12:49,860 player we bought which cost us over 350 174 00:12:47,700 --> 00:12:55,079 dollars two years ago when we first started down this Rabbit Hole has a big 175 00:12:52,079 --> 00:12:59,639 problem while it does support recording 176 00:12:55,079 --> 00:13:03,060 and Playback of HDD VHS tapes and it can 177 00:12:59,639 --> 00:13:06,180 output over firewire it cannot play back 178 00:13:03,060 --> 00:13:09,240 D theater tapes and this is for good 179 00:13:06,180 --> 00:13:10,920 reason remember guys this was 20 years 180 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:16,680 ago which means that Technologies we take for granted today didn't exist yet 181 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:21,180 like HDMI and like it or not one of 182 00:13:16,680 --> 00:13:23,579 HDMI's biggest Innovations was hdcp the 183 00:13:21,180 --> 00:13:28,019 copy protect action encryption that convinced major film studios to release 184 00:13:25,740 --> 00:13:33,060 their content for home viewing I know I know hdcp ain't exactly a popular 185 00:13:30,540 --> 00:13:38,940 technology but let me explain old school analog interfaces like component video 186 00:13:35,399 --> 00:13:40,920 could absolutely carry an HD signal the 187 00:13:38,940 --> 00:13:45,899 issue was that there was no way to prevent people from capturing that 188 00:13:43,019 --> 00:13:51,899 signal and recording it to their own tapes and for this reason recording and 189 00:13:49,139 --> 00:13:57,000 sharing bootleg VHS tapes was extremely common back in the 90s great for 190 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,860 consumers bad for movie studios having 191 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:03,060 gone through that experience the film industry resolved to never repeat it 192 00:14:01,079 --> 00:14:09,120 they had failed in their attempts to Outlaw media copying devices so far but 193 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:14,399 they had some other ideas they believed that even if people could watch standard 194 00:14:12,060 --> 00:14:19,560 deaf bootleg movies on their couch for next to free they could use Innovations 195 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:24,120 like high definition picture and surround sound to motivate viewers to go 196 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:28,260 to the movie theater instead which is of course where they got the majority of 197 00:14:25,620 --> 00:14:32,880 their revenue when early generation dvhs players rolled out in 1998 they could be 198 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:37,980 used for recording and playing back TV broadcasts in high definition and they 199 00:14:35,220 --> 00:14:43,260 could be used for watching movies but only standard VHS movies were supported 200 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:49,260 because the major film studios refused to release their films on dvhs I can 201 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:54,480 only imagine how frustrating that must have been for enthusiasts at the time 202 00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:56,100 okay which raises some questions what on 203 00:14:54,480 --> 00:15:01,079 Earth were people doing with these things 204 00:14:57,839 --> 00:15:03,600 we've got some idea there was a VHS tape 205 00:15:01,079 --> 00:15:07,320 actually inside this player when we bought it let's take a look shall we 206 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:11,519 this looks good though looks really good the quality is impressive something to 207 00:15:09,540 --> 00:15:15,420 note is that even though HD broadcasts were not particularly common in the us 208 00:15:13,380 --> 00:15:20,399 at the time that doesn't mean that there was no use for these things in other 209 00:15:17,279 --> 00:15:23,100 regions particularly in Japan they were 210 00:15:20,399 --> 00:15:27,740 wait what is this it's the Victoria's Secret catalog from 2008 211 00:15:26,279 --> 00:15:31,980 oh what were people doing with this 212 00:15:29,959 --> 00:15:36,000 regarding whatever they could and not the highest definition possible 213 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:40,199 recording softcore porn on cable wasn't the only use for it though there were a 214 00:15:38,279 --> 00:15:43,380 lot of HD broadcasts back then so one guy would actually follow a local 215 00:15:41,399 --> 00:15:46,920 station that would do IMax releases they'd broadcast them he'd record them 216 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:51,839 on his dbhs flare and then play them back corrected for inflation early dvhs 217 00:15:49,199 --> 00:15:55,680 players cost over 2 000 today dollars the only people buying into this 218 00:15:53,699 --> 00:15:59,699 ecosystem were obviously willing to go to Great Lengths to get the most out of 219 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:03,060 their home theater setup here's the label for that tape by the way you can 220 00:16:01,380 --> 00:16:09,060 have it back if you want I I really don't need it d-theater uses the same 221 00:16:05,699 --> 00:16:11,720 media as dvhs but this time with support 222 00:16:09,060 --> 00:16:17,579 for encryption and that's to appease the anti-copying film industry Executives 223 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:22,380 that is why it uses the super unusual 224 00:16:17,579 --> 00:16:25,560 IEEE 1394 or firewire connector our dvhs 225 00:16:22,380 --> 00:16:29,220 player came out before HDMI and HTTP so 226 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:32,040 the only option is to help put SD so 227 00:16:29,220 --> 00:16:36,600 standard definition or to Output HD over that encrypted firewire output and you 228 00:16:34,860 --> 00:16:43,199 might think well no problem you could just convert that to HDMI right but you 229 00:16:40,740 --> 00:16:48,180 can't because only about 90 films ever made it to D theater the last was iRobot 230 00:16:45,899 --> 00:16:52,320 released in 2004 there's been very little demand for products that can 231 00:16:49,980 --> 00:16:56,820 convert these weird firewire boxes to Modern standards and while there are 232 00:16:54,120 --> 00:17:00,959 firewire capture cards again due to the obscurity of the tech I'm not aware of 233 00:16:58,980 --> 00:17:05,040 any that can defeat the encryption that was used by d-theater there are 234 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:10,439 apparently d-theater players that do support HDMI but by the time those came 235 00:17:07,140 --> 00:17:12,240 out dvhs was on its way out the door so 236 00:17:10,439 --> 00:17:16,439 I suspect that the owners of those units are probably holding on to them until 237 00:17:14,100 --> 00:17:21,720 The Bitter End and who can blame them especially knowing what we know now 238 00:17:18,419 --> 00:17:24,299 about how good the theater releases were 239 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:30,120 so with that in mind why did it fail first of all the movie execs got one big 240 00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:35,220 big thing wrong people didn't care about high definition nearly as much as they 241 00:17:32,940 --> 00:17:41,160 thought certainly not enough to overcome the cost space durability and 242 00:17:38,460 --> 00:17:45,419 convenience advantages that DVD had over D theater would you rather have a 243 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:49,080 slightly sharper picture or a movie you don't 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