What maybe of note is the brightness, details in the shadows like the machinery just to the right of R5's head often gets blended into the background.

frank678 wrote: Or after the tape it was recorded on the 'VK250' bootleg

That's a good idea. According to: http://www.pandahi.com/1008157804.html

(RCA assigned the number "VK 250" for their brand of two hour capacity tapes that was later reassigned as the generic term "T 120")

The 'T-120' name is still used today. The 250 may have referred to the vertical resolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS