Oh yes, the days before the internet...
Not only were the images scrambled, they were 'negative'.
When the folks were out of town one weekend I set up our video camera which had a 'negative' function to record a, uh, movie off of the TV screen.
It didn't make things any better. Nor worse for that matter.
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