[vcf-midatlantic] semi OT: video digitizing & archive

[Bill Degnan]

Jeff,
There are times, esp when ultimate quality is not necessary, to simply
record the video off of a nice TV playing the video.  Pulling old media
into modern files is preferred if you have all of the dongles to make the
connections, adjust impedance, etc.  You can always start with the easy
solution and spend time to perfect the most important of the videos.  If
you have a lot of video it might be nice to set up a video conversion
station that you know has a working process.


b

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 12:40 PM Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> I need advice how to best digitize video,
> mostly standard def TV/NTSC of VCF events.
>
> I have several USB dongles that take composite and S-video.
> They may be adequate, but I don't know what one's really best.
>
> I also have several DVR (digital VCR): Tivo, Sonic Blue replay-tv.
> Did those have good front-ends or was most of the attention to the
> subscription service?
> I know they need to be "jail broken" to work like VCRs.
> There's no big red "just record NOW!" button :-(
>
> thanks
>
> -- Jeff Jonas
>