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“Eventually, all our graves go unattended.” — Conan O'Brien
A similar quote, paraphrased, is "Every one dies twice. The first time is when they stop breathing, and the second is when their name is spoken for the last time".
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…
>Ultimately, having and keeping stuff just weighs you down. This, so much this! We should own nothing. Then we'll be happy!
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Luckily, hoarding digital media is a lot easier and doesn't take up much space.
Unluckily, that means there's no physical check on it to prompt you to stop like physical media has.
2000 tapes at 6 hours each, 12,000 hours. You can record them for about a gig an hour, so it ought to fit in 12 terabytes. Doing one tape a night, it'll take 6 years of calendar time. 3 years if you buy a dedicated computer to do it, at two tapes a day. The good news is that's calendar time, not your time, which is pressing "record" on your computer and "play" on the VHS machine.
Having digitised a few VHS tapes, the (personal) time consumer was verifying whether the capture was successful and of acceptable quality. Is anyone aware of a way to automate the quality control?
Side note: any recommendations for digitization services for ~80 mini DV tapes? Currently planning to try out LegacyBox, but the reviews are mixed.
eBay! My brother used to tape bicycle races and has hundreds of them. He's been blanking them and selling them on eBay for about $5 each.
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Those stored things are your digital roots. Without them, you are nobody.
I like the sentiment but I think most people I know would be better off freed from their hoarded items and actually able to be somebody. Your comment does remind me of the replicants from Blade Runner and how they need their “precious photos” that aren’t even real as a touchstone to link them to the implanted memories.
be who?
Probably the highest quality retrieval is with: https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode which reads the raw data off a variety of tape formats and converts it to video. Grew out of the domesday project for lasterdiscs
Thank you for this link! My mom went through hell trying several “professional” commercial services both locally and elsewhere, just trying to get our couple dozen or so family video VHS tapes converted into some digital format. They all suck ass —not that my mom cares, of course, she's perfectly content watching videos of her children hideously stretched from 4:3 to 16:9, among many other issues. But now at least I…