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Running out of DVDs, my thoughts turn to the Other Cupboard. I don't go in there much, it houses the prerecorded video collection but also a monolithic block of inconsistently-labelled stuff-recorded off the telly, a lot recorded 15 years ago that I've not got round to watching yet :-) There are some films I love, some schlock 50s horror movies, quirky nonsense and classics. Some 85 tapes, not including the swathes of Lost In Space, Buffy, Babylon 5.
If they're too snowy (long play recording does not transfer kindly to a wide screen tv) I might be back in a while, wondering what to do with them.
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-lap-table-with-VHS-tapes/
EDIT: Aha! Three unwatched films on one tape: Schindler's List/The Usual Suspects/Leon. That'll do nicely...
If they're too snowy (long play recording does not transfer kindly to a wide screen tv) I might be back in a while, wondering what to do with them.
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-lap-table-with-VHS-tapes/
EDIT: Aha! Three unwatched films on one tape: Schindler's List/The Usual Suspects/Leon. That'll do nicely...
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We have several hundred tapes we are slowly going through to see if there is anything worthwhile converting to digital format. The essential stuff like the TVS report on the Brighton Worldcon is done. Anything that's commercially available now is likely to be available ad infinitum, and cheap; and we try to respect copyright.
That still leaves a lot of one-offs the BBC and Channel 4 put out in the 1980s to convert, as well as what appear to be orphan works, and it all has to be done in real time.
As for when it's over bar the disposal of the tapes, your table looks like fun, but I hope there's someone in this country that will take the damn things for recycling without charging me for the privilege.
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