That is amazing! Mine started degrading at age 10 and usually by age 15 they were too grainy for viewing. I did hear that store bought VHS movies which are pressed can last a long long time.I have old homemade VHS tapes from 1980 that still look/play very well
Yes, hooked up my VCR to my DVD recorder and recorded on to a DVD disc.Did you do the tape to DVD transfer yourself?
memory stsicks aren't known to be very reliable eitherAmazingly, I have to agree with the parrot on this one. I can't speak of VHS, but burned DVD/CD may not be a good long term solution. I have discs I made in late 90's, early 2000's that I cannot read properly anymore. Consider backing up important data on another source such as a HDD or memory stick.
Fair enough, that's why I advocate using more than one source, including a burned disc for data that's really important.memory stsicks aren't known to be very reliable either
I wanted a VCR after reading what they were capable of in the 70s but they were too farking expensive, going for 3K! So when prices 'kinda dropped' in 1980 I got a portable VCR and an RCA video camera. There were no camcorders then. Back then RCA was rated best and made in the USA. RCA was rated better than Sony then also! Still it cost a Grand for the camera and a Grand for the portable VCR that weighed around 25lbs. It was a beast to wear/lug around. Blank videotape cost $30 a blank and only did 2/4 hour speeds like the VCR. No remotes. It only came with a 20 foot wired remote for pause! That was it and it cost 2 Grand for both! That camera taped great. Home movies looked like 'live TV' even taping in 4 hour mode. These tapes still look/play great after 31 yrs.That is amazing! Mine started degrading at age 10 and usually by age 15 they were too grainy for viewing. I did hear that store bought VHS movies which are pressed can last a long long time.
Agreed!memory stsicks aren't known to be very reliable either
I got burned BIGTIME doing that!Fair enough, that's why I advocate using more than one source, including a burned disc for data that's really important.
Only @ 1/24th of a second?!?!!?Freeze frame the video or dvd every 1/24th of a second and print it out on high quality paper, you can reshoot these pages in the future if your original deteriorates.
LOL....you would be there forever on only 1 tape.Only @ 1/24th of a second?!?!!?
I alway did that @ 1/36 of a second for better quality!....
True but the quality will be magnifique....LOL....you would be there forever on only 1 tape.
Which is fine untill either the ink fades or the paper yellows. Better to get them enamelled onto glass plates instead... be sure to store the plates horizontally as there have been problems with some of the older stained glass windows in european cathedrals slowly getting thicker at the bottom after about 300 years of vertical storage.Freeze frame the video or dvd every 1/24th of a second and print it out on high quality paper, you can reshoot these pages in the future if your original deteriorates.