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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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Post by dylan604 »

dylan604 wrote: post #47
urbandw311er wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if the conversion software would have the unwanted side effect of filtering out the teletext content.

I know at least the brands of NTSC units like this I had the misfortune of using that did not retain the line 21 data, so I'd be shocked if teletext was preserved. I could at least see some adventurous attempt of a VHS->DVD unit attempting to translate to embedded 601 captions to the MPEG streams. I guess that was way beyond the scope of what most users of these devices would want/need.

ugh, 608 captions. too many similar numbers with 601 being the color space. it didn't improve with HD with 708 captions and 709 color space.

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

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Post by lostlogin »

cortesoft wrote: post #30
fallinditch wrote: post #21

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.

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

It doesn’t have to, but it can. I rate my 8 bay Synology. It’s probably the least cost effective storage option, but it’s a pleasure to use and isn’t too loud as long as it hides in the basement. The options you see on DataHoarder are rather more extreme, and well worse perusing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

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

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Post by YesBox »

uptown wrote: post #75
QuadrupleA wrote: post #43

Probably an age-old theme, but as a guy now in my 40s, it's humbling and a little sad to see how many things that were so vital, alive, and relevant in my childhood (and past eras) that are now dead and almost gone from the collective memory. As the Buddha said, all is impermanent.

“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".

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

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Post by Mistletoe »

lofaszvanitt wrote: post #71
fallinditch wrote: post #21

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…

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.

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

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Post by lesuorac »

I am very surprised at how many recording programs / devices don't have an option to auto-stop on black. It's a real pain to have to hit record / stop and would be so much nicer to just start and when it stays black for like 1 minute just auto-stop.

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

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Post by aspenmayer »

throwanem wrote: post #60
QuadrupleA wrote: post #43

Probably an age-old theme, but as a guy now in my 40s, it's humbling and a little sad to see how many things that were so vital, alive, and relevant in my childhood (and past eras) that are now dead and almost gone from the collective memory. As the Buddha said, all is impermanent.

Right there with you. But hey, it's not all bad. We might be the last generation in living memory, for a while at least, who could ever say "you had to be there" and mean it. And for all it pangs our hearts to see our ephemera tend to dust, we also I think are, of any human generation to date, probably best able to hope that the things we really love from our time will be preserved. (I hope that's a distinction we do…

> as someone half my age discovers a show I first binged 25 years ago from a friend's handmade VHS dubs

What show are you referring to? Consider my curiosity piqued!

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

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Post by yboris »

Once you digitize them, you'll want to browse the videos. Consider using Video Hub App - an MIT open source application (Windows, Mac, Linux) that shows you screenshots (that you can scrub through) from each video.

https://videohubapp.com/

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

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