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I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them

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Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them

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It can become a compulsion to record and collect media. Seems like a male thing, normally it's blokes who create these archives.

I met a bloke once in the 90's who made recordings on to C-90 tapes of anything interesting that was on BBC Radio 4 and 3, and he found most things interesting. He was surrounded by piles, thousands of tapes everywhere and he was desperately trying to catalog everything. As I spoke to him he was listening to the radio via an ear bud, whilst also recording the radio. He was supposed to be moving out of his house that day, having just exchanged contacts, but he was drowning in his precious tapes. His wife seemed pretty p**d off with him.

I was a bit compulsive myself. I used to buy records, then CDs, and I also made tapes of albums, and recordings of the John Peel show. It was a problem to shift 100s of records and CDs and boxes of tapes whenever I moved house. I lightened my load by giving everything away apart from the Peel tapes which were the most entertaining items in the whole collection, it actually felt good. I kept hold of the Peel tapes for some years, even though my tape deck had died. There were some great shows from the 90s! But then I had to downsize again so I took them to the rubbish tip, even that didn't make me sad.

Ultimately, having and keeping stuff just weighs you down.

Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them

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Side note: any recommendations for digitization services for ~80 mini DV tapes? Currently planning to try out LegacyBox, but the reviews are mixed.

Get a FireWire cable and rip the data straight from a dvcam to get the raw video files. Then compress with desired settings

Ah actually they’re 8mm cassette tapes and vhs-c. From 20-40 years ago

Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them

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AI solves this. Get AI to consume the lot and store it somewhere. Then, in the future, query the AI to find out if a specific piece of footage (that you need) is contained therein.

I can't tell if this is satire or not. Have you considered storing it on the blockchain instead, so this way it is immutable and permanent? /s

I don't know why people are worried about storage. You can just store it on the cloud.

Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't tell if this is satire or not. Have you considered storing it on the blockchain instead, so this way it is immutable and permanent? /s

I don't know why people are worried about storage. You can just store it on the cloud.

I know this guy Chad with nice shelves.

Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them

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It can become a compulsion to record and collect media. Seems like a male thing, normally it's blokes who create these archives. I met a bloke once in the 90's who made recordings on to C-90 tapes of anything interesting that was on BBC Radio 4 and 3, and he found most things interesting. He was surrounded by piles, thousands of tapes everywhere and he was desperately trying to catalog everything. As I spoke to him h…

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Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them

#30

It can become a compulsion to record and collect media. Seems like a male thing, normally it's blokes who create these archives. I met a bloke once in the 90's who made recordings on to C-90 tapes of anything interesting that was on BBC Radio 4 and 3, and he found most things interesting. He was surrounded by piles, thousands of tapes everywhere and he was desperately trying to catalog everything. As I spoke to him h…

Luckily, hoarding digital media is a lot easier and doesn't take up much space.
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