March 28, 2008 - This Is a Test - Emergency Alert System 

Now back on RU-vid!
I got my parents permission to borrow a VHS tape. It was recorded using a cheep-o Sylvania VHS/DVD Combo (I don't think they're using it anymore due to inferior quality). I played it back using my Panasonic PV-9450 Omnivision, which plays back much better than that cheep-o Sylvania. The sound wouldn't be so unstable. Here, I used a low resolution Dazzle DVC-80 video capture from the tape. I would use the line-in to record the audio since I always get better results that way.
Notice that both test contain a "This is a test" announcement followed by something from a radio broadcast (maybe WATB FM) with a weather report followed by Billy Joel singing "Moving Out". Maybe both tests had the same recording but the second time was muffled.
These days, whenever our cable system does a test, it would be red screen only without text.
Brace yourself! This could scare the [your word here] out of ya!