On December 9, 2009 at 03:50, Bruce H.Campbell said...
|so I expect a lot of VCR's will be retired/replaced as well. I have one that is a candidate for such, and the game plan is to |replace it in 2010 with a home built PVR.
I still have my Betamax and VHS VCRs, the main diff is the RF inputs aren't connected any more, ditto the composite/Svhs in, just the outputs, for playback of the old tapes.
{and if you can't guess, ask me how i view my old tapes on the computer monitors but at half-inch tape limitation of 242 lines of resolution it is soft focus, even SuperBeta, like the old Vaseline on the lens trick of porn movies.}
Okay, I will probably semi-retire my VCR as well, at least until I can figure out a way to move some tapes to DVD, without spending a lot of money. Some like our wedding video should probably just be converted by a service, providing the tape is still good, haven't looked at it in about 10 years. For commercial videos probably cheaper to just toss them and rent the DVD if I really need to see the movie again. Rentals on older movies are usually quite inexpensive.
Thinking about the transfer to computer, there are two ways, if you have a composite input that would work, otherwise hook the RF output to the NTSC input on the tuner card.
BTW the vaseline on the lens trick, they usually used a filter holder and a plain piece of glass, the vaseline was put on the glass which was insterted into the filter holder attached to the lens, not the lens itself. Lenses often have special coatings on them to reduce flare, reflections and correct for colour problems, if you look at a camera lens it's often coloured slightly, purple and yellow are common. Applying another material could partly remove those coatings, lenses for MP cameras are very expensive, you don't want to ruin one.
