[vcf-midatlantic] Laserdisk transfer to digital?
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Mon Jun 21 19:45:31 UTC 2021
As usual, there is a complicated answer and way to do things
and
there is a simple answer and way to do things.
Somewhere in between is the correct way to do this.
JM2C
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> On Jun 21, 2021, at 1:03 PM, Alexander Jacocks via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>
> Since Matt has offered, and he has the expertise, I think that we should
> have him do it.
>
> If you want, at the Baltimore workshop, bring the LDs and, and I will bring
> them to Matt, in Pittsburgh.
>
> - Alex
>
>> On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 4:30 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <
>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 4:23 PM Jeff Salzman via vcf-midatlantic <
>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a laserdisc player, time base corrector, and video capture card.
>> How
>>> soon does this need done?
>>>
>>
>> There is no rush for this, but I would like someone to work on it steadily
>> so that it doesn't get forgotten.
>> A player was donated, but don't know if it works or if it is better or
>> worse than your player. I will leave that up to you.
>> Alex Jaccocks has offered to do this, but maybe both of you can figure out
>> between you two who wants to do it or collaborate.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Jeff Salzman
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 20, 2021, 3:23 PM Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic <
>>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So called “Video Game Enhancers” are simple time-base correctors and
>> will
>>>> remove Macrovision.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 3:07 PM Wil Birkmaier via vcf-midatlantic <
>>>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Laserdisc has a few different formats: all analogue, analogue video
>>> with
>>>>> mono analogue audio and digital audio, or analogue video with all
>>> digital
>>>>> audio.
>>>>>
>>>>> They key to a good capture these days is to get the best composite
>>> video
>>>>> converter you can find as the video is stored like a vinyl record, as
>>> an
>>>>> analogue composite video stream. So yes using the svideo on some of
>> the
>>>>> newer players, the conversion of composite to svideo is still not the
>>>> best.
>>>>> I need to find a link to a decent converter to 720p I have been using
>>>> with
>>>>> vhs and am happy with.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 20, 2021 14:45, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <
>>>>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know if it is possible to transfer laserdisks to a modern
>>>>> digital format? There are 16 laserdisks recently donated that have C
>>>>> programming training from 1984, which was part of a UNIX and C
>>>>> training program. The reason for the transfer is that we don't know
>> how
>>>>> rare these disks are nor how long laserdisk will last.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are 16 laserdisks as well as supplemental floppy disks and some
>>>>> paper
>>>>> manuals.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> =========================================
>>>>> Jeff Brace
>>>>> Vice President & Board Member
>>>>> Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner
>>>>> Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity
>>>>> http://www.vcfed.org/
>>>>> jeffrey at vcfed.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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