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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Jul 29, 2023 20:45:20 GMT
Ever thought what would be lost if Google / YouTube went belly up? Good point. The VHS tapes from which many of these poor quality transfers come have probably been binned already in many cases. So they're already some way along the road to extinction. Interesting point yes if YT were to disapear. But on the plus side its certain that anything of interest on there will have been downloaded multiple times so there will be more copies out there than before. |
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Jul 29, 2023 21:19:36 GMT
Well, it's also the same when stuff disappears from youtube - a case in point is that a 1980 edition of an ATV programme called Something Different (the one featuring Sir Cliff and Mensi from the Angelic Upstarts) disappeared from youtube. Luckily my mate Chris Dabbs captured it for me, and ironically it was only yesterday I discovered it was not on youtube any longer and I got a copy sent by file to Kaleidoscope.
The copy is in monochrome, but, better than nothing.
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Post by George D on Jul 29, 2023 21:46:24 GMT
A system to preserve YouTube finds with multiple people would be useful
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Post by garygraham on Aug 1, 2023 3:56:45 GMT
It's worth mentioning that few videos on YouTube are anywhere near the quality that could potentially be copied from the original VHS tape. Video may be at 25 frames per second progressive and transferred on a knackered old VCR with a cheapo Chinese capture device or a DVD recorder. A common issue is muffled linear audio which could probably be fixed with the turn of a screwdriver.
You realise this when you see a relatively uncompressed transfer made using a good VCR st 50i or even upscaled to 960x720 50p.
That isn't to take away anything from the great people who are finding things.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Aug 1, 2023 12:52:00 GMT
It's worth mentioning that few videos on YouTube are anywhere near the quality that could potentially be copied from the original VHS tape. Video may be at 25 frames per second progressive and transferred on a knackered old VCR with a cheapo Chinese capture device or a DVD recorder. A common issue is muffled linear audio which could probably be fixed with the turn of a screwdriver. You realise this when you see a relatively uncompressed transfer made using a good VCR st 50i or even upscaled to 960x720 50p. That isn't to take away anything from the great people who are finding things. True. On occasions I'm sent stuff in better quality, but it's fairly rare. |
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