I stumbled across this video on YT. It was recorded in NYC in 1993 onto a 3/4"VHS tape in digital format. The picture is absolutely amazing, even compared to 1080.



KOT

I bought into the format and still have my old deck and tapes some place....

Won't say which manufacturer but the first bluray demos at CES were actually D-VHS. The BD Players were dummies with lights.
The doors below the players were kept locked for a good reason.
I still have a JVC D-VHS machine that I used to copy material from a cable box. Then to a PC. What a PITA just to get HD videos.

back when hidef actually looked good.

Yeh I remember being there and going to the BDA exhibit before the show closed. There was no one there so I proceeded to hit eject on the BD player. The drawer opened but the video kept playing. :) I repeated that on other ones and at least three did that from what I recall.

I used to have a D-VHS as well as the analog high def format known as W-VHS. Used to record Sapranos episodes onto W-VHS from the component output of a HD cable box. Picture quality was very good, but not as good as direct digital copy.

Ya, but what good is all that without an HDMI socket!?

;)

I am stunned. have never seen footage from that era in HD! just a dumb question, what display was available back then able to see this in HD ? All we had was CRT and 4:3 no?

Plenty of crt displays were available along with lots rear projection displays.

I guess it had to be digital because analog VHS looks like shyte.