Rip my VHS tapes, or download? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months 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.