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Rip my VHS tapes, or download? (sh.itjust.works)
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So I own over 500 vhs tapes. And dvds, but those are easy to rip. I am trying to archive all my tapes before they go bad. However, that takes a lot of time. Should I just try to find all the movies I can for tapes I own?

I've been out of the game for a few years now. How vast are the resources for 90s movies and such ?

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The ethical pirate would rip them and make them available as torrents. Out of 500, there's probably a lot that is unfindable.

Start with your favorites, go as far as you (and your bandwidth) can.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I don't have a problem with this, its easy enough to throw in a tape in the morning, then another at night. In a year I'd be done.

    However, I don't think many people would want them due to the low quality. I myself actually enjoy vhs quality but I know many want the highest possible for their media.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I'd say download everything and keep track of what you can't find, then rip those because there will probably be people in the data hoarder or lost media communities who would love to hoard and share it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Years ago, I ripped parts of my relatively small VHS collection - at least the part that wasn't copied over and over. The low output quality and slowliness of the process finally got me to abandon the idea. I ripped maybe a dozen movies or less and none of these still are in my collection. All of them replaced by way better copies. OTOH video codecs were not what they are today and a recent VHS rip might look a lot better at smaller file sizes. Idk about audio quality but mine was abyssmal; absolutely no competition to DVD audio.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I myself actually enjoy vhs quality but I know many want the highest possible for their media.

    Do you watch them as intended on a CRT TV or are you using a modern LCD/OLED to watch them? I've noticed that old games look like shit on a modern TV because CRT offered some smoothing of the image and made the quality appear better. With games you can fix this with all kinds of shaders, but I'm curious how a VHS would appear on a 65" OLED. It's not quite 1:1 with games since it's all analog but how good is it? I don't think I've used a CRT or VHS in 20+ years.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    Both. Have a few crts, a projection tv, and 1 flat-screen insignia i got for free. Can't game on the insignia because of terrible input lag. Vhs looks surprisingly not terrible on it though. All post processing shit is turned off that can be disabled.

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