I'm in my early 60's. A long time ago we had all the old 8mm film transferred to VHS and thought that was amazing! Now have all of those + the new VHS tapes made since the mid '80's and my old TV commercial work, I have a VHS/DVD player/recorder I was going to (SOMEday) transfer them all to DVD and still haven't! Maybe I should just skip the DVD now & go straight to digital.
As Vwestlife has pointed out in his video, the elgato capture options do a very poor job digitizing VHS, and there are other options that offer much higher quality. th-cam.com/video/9NuquTDhjGY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=TNzmsy7nzV-t9bx7
I've been raised on VHS and disagree. Past is that: past. Digitize maybe some most important things but trying to preserve, for example, 80 tapes, each being 180-240 minutes is just pointless. Another reason against preserving, is that most people will store those on pendrives, SSD or other storage types which have expected life span of 2-5 years. No one will buy and setup proper RAID, heavy duty HDD drives to properly store those digitalized memories. Also, unless you have close family, who will watch those things? You, in 40 years? Or are you gonna upload it to a website, and hope service will be still available in couple of secades? Sure, magnetic tapes and compact disks rot, often literally, I have family recordings on reel magnetic tapes from the 30-40 years ago, and even my parents weren't interested in checking out what's on those. But of course, that's my opinion.
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I'm in my early 60's. A long time ago we had all the old 8mm film transferred to VHS and thought that was amazing! Now have all of those + the new VHS tapes made since the mid '80's and my old TV commercial work, I have a VHS/DVD player/recorder I was going to (SOMEday) transfer them all to DVD and still haven't! Maybe I should just skip the DVD now & go straight to digital.
Yes. If it is easier to just go straight to DVD, then do that. At least, having them in any digital form is a failsafe. :)
As Vwestlife has pointed out in his video, the elgato capture options do a very poor job digitizing VHS, and there are other options that offer much higher quality. th-cam.com/video/9NuquTDhjGY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=TNzmsy7nzV-t9bx7
There are early color videotapes from 1958 which still contain a playable signal.
And my family still has film negatives that survived longer than the actual printouts they got from the store. Your point?
that bad part is we have vhs-c the small
little one but finding the big vhs adapter is difficult no place sells them 😢
i had the same type, you can find them on amazon for like $30, here’s a quick search for one
a.co/d/dsJaWyt
I've been raised on VHS and disagree.
Past is that: past. Digitize maybe some most important things but trying to preserve, for example, 80 tapes, each being 180-240 minutes is just pointless.
Another reason against preserving, is that most people will store those on pendrives, SSD or other storage types which have expected life span of 2-5 years. No one will buy and setup proper RAID, heavy duty HDD drives to properly store those digitalized memories. Also, unless you have close family, who will watch those things? You, in 40 years? Or are you gonna upload it to a website, and hope service will be still available in couple of secades?
Sure, magnetic tapes and compact disks rot, often literally, I have family recordings on reel magnetic tapes from the 30-40 years ago, and even my parents weren't interested in checking out what's on those.
But of course, that's my opinion.
Most old tapes are fine just like disc rot its overly exaggerated
maybe for most people, but a lot of my collection has mold in them
@@Snowy3011 that means you stored them in the wrong conditions for a majority of the tapes life