[TesTVWhirl]

When I did the birthday stuff for the website a few years back and made a point of recreating authentic 'postage-stamp, low bitrate RealVideo files from pres sites circa 2001', I actually recorded and played back everything through proper VHS machines to get that part of authenticity too. However as VHS in proper use was nowhere near as bad as people often remember especially at small sizes, I still had to very deliberately bypass and offset all the automatic tracking just to add in the noise lines some seem to think were there all the time or no-one would have noticed.

I'm guessing in 10 years time the 'Youtube look' will be in via a filter which distorts a perfectly good picture to try and make it look like someone is badly pointing an ipad camera at a funny angle at their TV, before sticking massive big 'ScreenCapGrabPro 10' and 'DivX' logos over the top.