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That's the plan! I have a huge backlog to get to, as unfortunately uploading these giant RF captures often results in errors on archive.org. I ought to figure out how to use the command line tools for internetarchive as I have heard they are better for uploading

@@UniArchives Thanks. I can't imagine all the time this takes.

​@@kengeorgejones6855 It does take quite a long time (even more so for TV tapes), so I appreciate the recognition! Always happy to put this stuff back on the map no matter how much time is spent.

I noticed that with other NBC News Digest uploads online, the sky is always dark in some way

@@UniArchives For some odd reason they only adjusted the light for the afternoons. The morning intro's for TODAY and SUNRISE were a little lighter than the ones for NIGHTLY NEWS and the evening DIGESTS but nearly the same.

I'd try Shazaming it if you haven't already, then try heading to watzatsong

For sure! While the Country Music Crossroads program itself is far from the full thing, I am glad the Pledge Break survived

Thanks for the correction! I should have kept searching; IIRC a WPXI bumper played not long after Guiding Light was done on the tape which threw me off my track. The description for this and the other uploads I have planned will be fixed

@@UniArchives Thank you. I do like this video. I like seeing old Pittsburgh TV videos regularly on TH-cam, especially ones from the 1980s.

@@JosephPratt1986 Great to hear it! You'll be in for a treat from what I have scheduled to upload

@@UniArchives Hopefully you have more WQED things for us.

Might be worth posting on watzatsong, I tried looking briefly but my search came up empty

Thanks for the correction! I've updated the title accordingly

@@UniArchives No problem, Uni. And thank *you* for being a hero for vintage media.

@@PhilipGipson-m9q Happy to make a difference!

I remember your last post - still no, sorry. I believe I have an ad that *mentions* Sudafed but is not from Sudafed themselves in my queue to be uploaded, I can only upload 10 videos a day now that TH-cam took away this account's advanced features.

I'll keep you updated as I go through more of what I've been sent! A lot of the TV things I have right now are from the 1990s and early 2000s - haven't come across another USA Network tape yet though

@UniArchives the USA Network commercials are awesome especially those that show clips of upcoming WWE Raw episodes. those are awesome

Don't recognize that one, but I'll certainly keep an eye out! A lot of what I have waiting for me is more late 90s CBS on KDKA-TV. As I start going through more of these EP T120 tapes, I will keep uploading the ads for specific tip-of-the-tongue moments like this 👍

Tell me about it!

Thank you for narrowing it down! I'll update the title accordingly

Expect to see a lot more commercial uploads like this in the coming weeks as I start to RF capture and decode the EP tapes I've been sent 🙂‍

It wasn't hard to find newscasts of KMart workers going on strike or quitting because of absurd hours and little breaks like this when dating what I've uploaded...

UPDATE: From comparing with and without MCTD, it doesn't seem to have much effect on the image aside from some slight sharpening. QTGMC must be doing most of the real denoising work - I'll play around with leaving MCTD off for SLP/EP captures and compare I'll have to compare the raw interlaced FFV1 video to this, I already have MCTemporalDenoise set to low in StaxRip.. It's a good deal sharper than a conventional capture with the same VCR, though I can tell it does a fair bit of noise reduction on its own for EP tapes so it's not a good point of comparison

Thank you! Lines up with everything else I found after I started separating the promos and commercials.

Regular VHS! vhs-decode really does this tape a favor, it looks a lot softer if digitized the 'conventional' way. Been meaning to do comparisons with my conventional setup for those interested

​@@UniArchivesok, im interested

​@@UniArchiveswhat is your vcr?

@@UniArchives I was amazed, as the quality of this conversion comes dangerously close to the quality of an S-VHS tape, and that’s saying a lot. It just needs some gamma adjustment, or tweaking the brightness and saturating the colors. That would be perfect

@@alvarogvdltgarcia52 On this capture I was using a Samsung DVD-VR375 tapped from the "ENV" video test point. I've since switched to a Sony SLV-677HF as it gives me better SNR and mono audio doesn't have high frequency noise

Both are utilizing clockgen mod, yes. I can vouch for using thesetup if you want to capture both the raw VHS video and Hi-Fi audio signals at the same time, so they are perfectly in sync with each other. That and the PCM1802 board is an easy way to get perfect sync linear or demodulated hi-fi, depending on what's on the tape