04-16-2010, 02:27 AM
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.
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.