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1. philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 01:43:29 JST philpem

   The cardinal #digipres sin, the one that'll make preservationists scream:

   "We tested the {tape/disc} in a machine so we didn't waste time making an image if it was bad. After playing the game for a few hours we found we couldn't load the tape again."

   Lesson here is, take the image first, you can always write it back to a new tape, but that one read may be your only chance...

   (the above sin was committed by a museum ... sigh)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 02:23:03 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Denis Warburton

     @philpem @artandtechnic domesday86 VHS sounds like such a good idea but it needs like SIX units to fully capture VHS on one? It's just ridiculous.

     I've thought about building my own variant hardware to be specialized for VHS but I think it might be above my pay grade

   • philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 02:23:04 JST philpem

     in reply to

     • Denis Warburton

     @artandtechnic These days I think we should be looking at the Domesday86 VHS-Decode software as the gold standard for that, or CX88 ADC-mode capture as a reasonable stand-in for when a modified deck isn't available.
     I fully agree on capturing the VBI (Line 21 captions and Teletext) data. There's a treasure trove of history in those.

   • Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 02:23:05 JST Denis Warburton

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     @philpem This is right up there with “archivists” who digitize videotape … but make a point of not digitizing the captioning data that goes along with it.

     The first pass is the best pass… to do it right.