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Re:For Sale: A Massive, Obsessive and Probably Obsolete VHS ... by rectang on Saturday March 23, 2019 @06:24PM (#19472658)
May you never work for bosses whose estimates are as optimistic as yours.
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Re:For Sale: A Massive, Obsessive and Probably Obsolete VHS ... by skookumchuck on Saturday March 23, 2019 @09:59PM (#19473645)
Actually, it's conservative. How many times per hour can you push a tape in and press "play" then click "record"?

But hey, I've digitized a hundred or so home movie tapes for my extended family. I'm sure I've got it all wrong.

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Re:For Sale: A Massive, Obsessive and Probably Obsolete VHS ... by LocalH on Sunday March 24, 2019 @10:53AM (#19476661)
What resolution did you use to capture? What deinterlacing algorithm did you use to process the footage? Did you run the VCRs output through a quality TBC?

If the answers to those questions are "I don't know" or "I don't care", then you got it wrong. If you ended up with a 29.97fps or 30fps file, or if you ended up with a 320x240 (or 352x240) file, then you got it wrong.

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Re:For Sale: A Massive, Obsessive and Probably Obsolete VHS ... by skookumchuck on Sunday March 24, 2019 @03:17PM (#19478175)
https://www.amazon.com/Elgato-Video-Capture-Digitise-iPad/dp... at its highest setting, 640*480
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