vhs-phys
Physical VHS simulator - 42.95 MS/s FM tape recording, Karlqvist head readback, deck electronics, EM interference, and a phosphor schematic GUI
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GITHUB · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 34 upvotes (top 73%) · 0 views
Niche: physics and engineering simulation software · 104 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▲ +14% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- analog-video
- dsp
- ntsc
- rust
- simulation
- vhs
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Could you build this?
Partial The deck UI and processing pipeline are vibe-codeable, but a convincing simulator needs real magnetic-recording physics, head modeling, and signal processing expertise that the AI won't reliably supply.
What it would actually take: Build a signal-chain pipeline in Python or C++/Rust with NumPy/FFT libraries and a schematic-style GUI on top. The hard part is the physics: FM modulation and demodulation, Karlqvist head field models, tape hysteresis, and EM noise, all needing validation against real tape or measured data. That requires a signal-processing and magnetics background, plus real VHS captures to calibrate against.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1008 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #762 of 1009 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 374 days after the earliest competitor.
- VHS Camera · hn · 2026-11-02 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.65
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- ComfyUI_RetroTape · github · 2026-09-10 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- c64-hw-simulator · github · 2026-10-15 · 382 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- analogue-pocket-32x · github · 2026-10-02 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- OP-XY-MNMD · github · 2026-10-27 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- SidTracker · github · 2026-10-17 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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