This thread is pretty embarrassing to me when I read back on it now because of all the rubbish I wrote on it (though I've deleted a lot of it).

I revived the thread because I wanted to share some new rubbish: a quick experiement of "correcting" the PAL 1982 VHS by filming directly from the tv screen with a camera phone (i know, i know) and then changing the levels.

I wanted to post the results because they are kind of what I was aiming at all along with the thread of getting some unique results from an old alternative source, and these are the first results I've got that I could actually live with.