A mate back in the 80’s had one of these (or something very similar to it):-
In our group of like-minded video nuts… who’d happily spend hours trying to work out which of all of us had the best tv and video record to watch films rented overnight from the local rental videoshop on…and NOT whose mum had the best coke & biscuits in - we had some shocking priorities back then 😉
The 80’s ‘fuzz’ and wavy images on the screens all added to the vibe of the films for us - especially on those low-budget horror films like Puppet Master, the Hammer Horrors and even sci-fi films like the OT, The Last Starfighter, Battle Beyond The Stars etc.
I do remember us trying to record the hired OT tapes by rigging up two VHS machines together - and the rigmarole involved in doing it… sometimes successfully, many times not (or the quality being so bad it was not worth the effort!)
Top thread screams, I may try and see if the old video player still works over the weekend, and give Star Wars (a '95 Faces tape) a watch on it…