Tales from the Far Side

Re:Tales from the Far Side by mccolin on Friday August 23, 2024 @01:16AM (#41326369)

A VHS of this I taped from broadcast is bopping around my parents’ basement somewhere. I need to find that.

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Re:Tales from the Far Side by hi-v-rocknroll on Friday August 23, 2024 @02:15AM (#41326523)

I wonder if content on VHS tape can be read and/or post-processed better than the best Toshiba or Sony (PAL|NTSC) VCR in history using fancier techniques and modern technology.

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Re:Tales from the Far Side by Sesse__ on Friday August 23, 2024 @04:38AM (#41327242)

https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode

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Re:Tales from the Far Side by hi-v-rocknroll on Friday August 23, 2024 @05:37AM (#41327539)

Awesome, thanks. I guess one just needs benchmarks of the sensitivity of various compatible hardware solutions.

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Re:Tales from the Far Side by actionfromafar on Friday August 23, 2024 @04:48AM (#41327291)

Was about to say that.

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Re:Tales from the Far Side by stavros on Friday August 23, 2024 @04:46AM (#41327284)

I wonder if the newer reading technology offsets the degradation of the magnetic tape, or whether it's better to digitize X years ago, using the older digitizing technique, but with a stronger magnetic signal.

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Re:Tales from the Far Side by hi-v-rocknroll on Friday August 23, 2024 @05:52AM (#41327616)

Every time it's played, there is mechanical wear on the tape surface and mechanical stretching to place it under tension.

Probably always best to digitize it then because there's quite a bit that can happen to tape magnetically and to the plastic tape itself.

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Re:Tales from the Far Side by kennyloginz on Friday August 23, 2024 @01:38AM (#41326444)

Awesome! Please share if you are able to recover it.

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