[acuozzo]

> There is no such thing as clean VHS. VHS is roughly youtube's 240p quality.

And yet if you IVTC a film telecined for reproduction on VHS using 3:2 pulldown you end up with the full 480 lines at a rate of 24fps.

Furthermore, if you consider the ~3MHz in luminance bandwidth, you get ~240TVL which works out to ~320 "pixels" per line at the NTSC DAR of 4/3.

Chrominance bandwidth and analog noise notwithstanding, I'd say that ~320x480 is a fair bit better than "240p".

And, for the record, VHS sucks. It just doesn't suck as much as you're claiming.

Finally, Laserdisc FTW.