A supercut of all the TBS-related content on a multi-speed VHS tape containing a bunch of different things.

This tape contained a lot of random things at once, including TV programs that appeared to have the US equivalent of Teletext, attempts at pirating scrambled TV, classic cartoons, home videos, and a documentary on TBS.
It was also a bit of a mess, constantly switching between SP, LP and EP speeds with varying signal quality.

For the most part though, it contains content from mid-1990s TNT and late 1980s TBS.

The programs that play go in order:
- (unknown, shows people in suits walking near graveyard)
- (unknown scrambled content)
- (unknown, shows control-room like scene with baked-in film dirt on image)
- (unknown scrambled content, incorrect speed)
- The Simpsons S5 E15 "Deep Space Homer" (Feb. 24, 1994 on FOX)
- (unknown scrambled content)
- Popeye "King of the Mardi Gras" (specific air date unknown, cut off)
- Target Brita water filter ad from 1992
- Popeye "King of the Mardi Gras" (continued from previous, cut off)
- (unknown scrambled content)
- Popeye "King of the Mardi Gras" (continued from previous, cut off)
- Christmas Carols on WPXI (cut off, audio unrecoverable from the amount of wow/flutter)
- Popeye "King of the Mardi Gras" (continued from previous, cut off)
- (unknown scrambled content)
- Popeye "King of the Mardi Gras" (continued from previous, cut off)
- Tom and Jerry "Neapolitan Mouse"
- Merrie Melodies "Believe It Or Else"
- Loony Tunes "Buckaroo with Bugs Bunny"
- Popeye "Too Weak to Work"
- Roland and Rattfink "Robin Goodhood"
- Pink Panther "Pink Outs"
- Tom and Jerry "Johann Mouse"
- Screwy Squirrel "Happy-Go-Nutty"
- Loony Tunes "The Unruly Hare"
- Pink Panther (cut off)
- Home video of a dog from October 11th, 1993
- VH1 model interview
- A few cut off commercials
- (unknown, kissing scene)
- The Deliberate Stranger (TV Mini Series 1986, aired on TBS)

Upscaled to 4K for YouTube using Lanczos4Resize and deinterlaced with QTGMC, all within StaxRip.
I do not claim to be well versed in the artform of analog media encoding, so I encourage anyone who knows better to give it a try themselves using the RF samples on the archive.org page: archive.org/details/certron_vhs_various_1980s (not yet available)

Rest of description is a direct paste from archive.org page:

This archive includes the FM RF copies of the analogue format (VHS). The media was captured with two modified VTImage capture cards (CXADC) at 40MSPS for the video signal, and 10MSPS for the VHS Hi-Fi audio.
This is the original signal off of the medium before processing past initial signal tracking and pre-amplification - a raw master digital copy or medium transfer.

Capture hardware used: 2x VTImage capture cards (CXADC) sampling at 40MSPS, overclocked via github.com/namazso/cxadc-clockgen-mod
VCR & Tap setup used: Sony SLV-677HF, PB RF pin 2 on CN261 for video FM RF, CN341 pin 3 for VHS Hi-Fi FM RF
TV System & Tape Format: NTSC, VHS SP, LP and EP
Commands used to decode the FFV1 archive provided:
vhs-decode --debug --ntsc --threads 8 --tape_format VHS --recheck_phase --tape_speed EP --ire0_adjust

Version of decode used at the time: 537b56c

Runtime: 04:34:00:000

Audio: Yes

Included in this archive is the RF information and commands used with vhs-decode.

Please visit the vhs-decode GitHub page if you wish to obtain newer versions of the decoders, other tools and more information past what is presented here.

github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode/wiki/

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