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I’m somewhat baffled as to what is taking so long to at least digitize the tapes. He alludes to perhaps some more steps than just pressing play, but it seems to
by jwagenet 2y ago
I’m somewhat baffled as to what is taking so long to at least digitize the tapes. He alludes to perhaps some more steps than just pressing play, but it seems to me the workload could be broken up by focusing on recording the tape data and dealing with the digital editing later to eliminate the physical tape problem.
- userbinator 2y agoAccording to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS#Tape_lengths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS#Tape_lengths each tape can have up to 930 minutes of data. 2000 tapes is 1860000 minutes, or around 3.5 years of continuous playtime, and I don't know of any VCRs that can play faster than realtime. Of course there's also the question of how much digital storage that would take, which is probably in the hundreds of terabytes range.
- jwagenet 2y agoYea, I understand the limitations. TFA mentioned 6hr runtimes (rather than 15.5), which is more manageable. If you WFH I’d guess 2-3 is feasible at least 5 days a week. Of course, if the teletext requires a second run then that’s double time. I suspect any serious archival setup for this will eventually settle on multiple recording systems. wrt to storage, I hope one is running a reasonably low res for this with some moderate compression. This is vhs after all…
- rasz 2y agoIf its only about teletext you dont need whole 6 hours. Teletext loops whole content in around a minute max. It would probably suffice to capture until vhs-teletext confirms full decode, minutes per tape instead of hours. You will only miss live changes - I think there was chat and sport results.