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“I dug deep and found the most advanced VHS archiving project around: VHS-Decode. The short version is you solder wires into a VCR to extract as close to the raw tape signal as possible. From there, you are doing the decoding of the image in software. If you wanna see what a freakishly clean encode upscaled to 4K looks like on a tape from 1987 of The Cure on the BBC, check this shit out.
From there, I would just compulsively buy stuff that had no good encode.”
https://aftermath.site/ricky-jay-defector-archive-preservation
aftermath.site · Someone Has To Save The Film And TV That Studios Won’t - AftermathThis article originally appeared on February 17 at Defector, a worker-owned sports and culture website you should totally support. HBO had a series of legendary stand-up specials in the 1990s, and one of the best of those came from a performer who was not a comedian. Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants was incredibly funny, but Jay […]
@jalefkowit it's impressive how the cure video has VHS artifact but the image is super clean