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The quality of VHS was never that great. Especially since, we're talking about the days when video signals, even on cable tv, was the end result of a long chain of analog equipment, from source to destination.
I've experimented with recording HD DTV to VHS. And the playback quality is vastly superior to anything recorded back in the day, simply due to the source signal being pristine. Video that doesn't have super fine detail, like 3D animation, is pretty well visually indistinguishable from the source. This is confirmed with MSU VQMT video comparison.
On the other hand, real-life video with super fine detail (a valley as far as you can see, full of trees with leaves) is where VHS suffers the most. MSU VQMT reported the greatest loss of video quality with this kind of scenery.
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