Build a VHS tape pyramid and charge people $3 to see it. duh.
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
#132Send them to Red Letter Media :-), or find a landfill near you...
Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
#133As long as you have them you are allowed to keep a digital copy as well?
Can you also rent out your digital copy?
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#134It 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…
Not just a male thing! [1] It might be the case that men are more likely to be collectors/hoarders in general but there definitely are women who partake. I will also say that the type of thing being collected matters. Go to an estate sale for a woman (especially one born before 1960) and you may see collections of dolls, tea services, certain types of paintings, etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Stokes
If women get known for their hoarding, its typically for animals, not living things. Which is, if you think about it long enough, a lot more creepy!
Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Seems like a male thing, normally it's blokes who create these archives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Stokes > Stokes bequeathed her son Michael Metelits the entire tape collection, with no instructions other than to donate it to a charity of his choice. After considering potential recipients, Metelits gave the collection to the Internet Archive one year after Stokes's death. Four shipping containers were r…
Surely someone in this thread can give an update on the status of that digitization project?
The outwardly visible status is that just a small portion of the recordings have been made available[1]. The Archive is not commenting about this for years now.
Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
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".
This raises an interesting question: Who is the oldest person still alive to us that we know of by name?
If you mean "Who is the earliest known recorded individual in human history?" wikipedia says "The name "Kushim" is found on several Uruk period (c. 3400–3000 BC) clay tablets used to record transactions of barley." [0]
Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
#137It 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…
There was a guy who collected tanks ! Had his collection up top of Portola Valley. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Vehicle_Technology_Fo... ]
It was incredible. One of the things we saw randomly that we wish we could see again.
Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
vhs decode is not for the faint of heart. To use it you have to open up the vcr and soldier some tap points onto it and the software is all command line. I wasn't able to get it to work. I mean to try it again but I haven't gotten back to it yet.
Wouldn’t it be far easier to record downstream of the output? There must be cheap analog video recorders.
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#139Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
This raises an interesting question: Who is the oldest person still alive to us that we know of by name?
If you mean "Who is the earliest known recorded individual in human history?" wikipedia says "The name "Kushim" is found on several Uruk period (c. 3400–3000 BC) clay tablets used to record transactions of barley." [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushim_(Uruk_period)
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