@foone This definitely looks like fun! I want to try to watch it from the beginning, though, instead of catching it in the middle 😂. Fam are going through an entire 4-DVD collection of Xmas movies today, and that was what was on when I checked in on everyone.
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.’
@foone@philpem Yeah, I think RF is a bit overkill for videotape in most cases. The only exception I can think of are the EIAJ PCM formats, as they stored the data starting around line 10 in the VBI.
There are methods for “copying” other VBI data into the ‘visible raster’ so that it can be digitized (i.e. Nielsen’s SID in the U.S.), but the equipment is made only by one company, requires a dealer, etc etc.*
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* The backplane on mine died a few months ago … replacement is difficult.
@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.
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