Notices by Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club), page 3

@nixCraft If one believes the FFmpeg “story,” then it seems that the FFmpeg team unilaterally - and highly unprofessionally - decided to publish the details of a private negotiation on a social media site. What company would enter into a support contract with people who act in that manner?

Beefchicken blog: “Reverse Engineering the ThunderScan”

Clever design.

https://beefchicken.com/retro/thunderscan/

RogerEbert dot com: “Why Deleting and Destroying Finished Movies Like Coyote vs Acme Should Be a Crime”

Yet another example of why applying the logic of other businesses (e.g. real estate) to show business is causing the entire entertainment industry to implode.

https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/coyote-vs-acme-canceled

Today I purchased a plastic shelving unit as I needed more vertical space in my (cramped) digitization work area.

I did this without a firm plan, so…

… we shall all discover whether or not ‘purchasing another shelving unit’ was merely folly.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)

This entire movie is “a wonder.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Conquers_the_Martians

New Blog: “DVD Recorders... for Preserving Captions”

‘In this essay, we describe how 'citizen preservationists,' who are digitizing & uploading vintage broadcast recordings, can preserve the Closed Captioning Data on those videotapes... with set-top DVD Recorders. We illustrate how effective a set-top DVD Recorder can be, by providing a link to a special Captioning Demo DVD, which demonstrates several facets of the original Closed Captioning System.’

https://blog.artandtechnic.com/

@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.