Pogue, Steve, Firewire, Tape

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/techno...pogue.html

I'd just farm it out.

[Lew Zealand]

Some of us are DIY nuts. I'm doing the same thing but with an order of magnitude fewer DV tapes.

Of course I'm also digitizing about 10 years of videotape collecting which is a slower thing as they are almost all Macrovision protected and my system to work around that is a wee bit inconvenient though fully functional.

BTW, I'm 2 yrs in to the project and maybe half done - it's taking a loooong time.

[hal]

great quote:

So Mr. Jobs, chief executive of Apple, called to tell me how wrong I was.

“You’re not going to edit those tapes,” I remember him telling me. “You don’t have the time.”

I was offended. How dare he be so direct, so presumptuous — and so right?

[mrbigstuff]

that's pretty scary about the deteriorating tape; i'd better check mine.

[estnyc]

Yeah. I thought keeping the tapes was a good backup. Jokes on me if it turns out all those tapes I've saved for so long are unreadable.

[Doc]

Pogue probably stored his tapes poorly.

I'm digitizing my sister's old tapes this week.

She kept them in a cabinet over the tv for 10 years. Bad idea: Storing magnetic tape bathed in a strong EMF.

The images are very noisy and the audio drops out. I think we're lucky there's any picture left.

My mom's old tapes were stuck in a drawer in the basement with a couple of packets of silica gel. Hardly any issues with the picture at all on those tapes, some of which date back to the 1980s.

[Winston]

Copying videotapes onto computer is a project I need to take on as well. Probably already have some significant deterioration in older tapes.

Not looking forward to it.


- Winston

[Racer X]

I had some 20-30 year old tapes in our archive at work. Just stored in a closet at work in an office building. No problems with them. But these were professional grade tapes, not the cheap $1 a tape consumer crap.