home video on dvd Warning

On 1 Dec, 15:00, "William Skaggs" wrote:
"Gary" wrote in message

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I have just checked my DVDs with home video on them and some are unreadable
and some are fussy.

I suggest anyone with similar should do the same. *before it is too late.

Gary

The best back up for home recorded DVD's is the original tape. * The only
problem with that is years down the road, you will have a hard time finding
a working machine to play them on.

I will take one exception to your comments though. *The video quality on
DVD's does not get "fuzzy" over time like a tape might do. *They can refuse
to play, or skip and freeze, or even get pixilated, but not fuzzy.

-Bill

Whack them on a hard drive and then back that up. Job done.

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RCE Defiant

"Ato_Zee" wrote in message
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On 7-Dec-2009, Robert Roland wrote:

Funnily, on even brand new films, set at today or even in the future,
whenever a scene takes place in a computer room of some sort, the
beeping from several stepper motors can still be heard in the
background.

And most of them still show mag tape (obviously studio
effects and not working) drives, plus other obsolete and
non-relevant hardware. Scopes with Lissajou figures,
continuously cycling displays, etc.
Because that is what film makers think todays hardware
looks like. War Games was a prime recent example, things
don't seem to have moved on much from then.
The sound of stepper motors is from library sound
archives, "That is the sound computers make" everybody
knows that.

You gotta love all of that.

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Vincent

"Roderick Stewart" wrote in
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In article , Ato_Zee wrote:
Funnily, on even brand new films, set at today or even in the future,
whenever a scene takes place in a computer room of some sort, the
beeping from several stepper motors can still be heard in the
background.

And most of them still show mag tape (obviously studio
effects and not working) drives, plus other obsolete and
non-relevant hardware. Scopes with Lissajou figures,
continuously cycling displays, etc.
Because that is what film makers think todays hardware
looks like. War Games was a prime recent example, things
don't seem to have moved on much from then.
The sound of stepper motors is from library sound
archives, "That is the sound computers make" everybody
knows that.

Same with camera shutters. It's always a 35mm SLR with motor drive,
regardless of the type of camera. Of course, you could argue that it
isn't quite so silly to do this with digital stills cameras because most
of them have the silliness built in. Even the ones with no mechanical
parts that need to move when a picture is taken, apart from the almost
inaudible iris mechanism, usually have a recording that plays the camera
sounds of yesteryear through a little loudspeaker. It seems about as
sensible as equipping a modern car with a loudspeaker to play the sound
of a Model T, perhaps with a few backfire effects just for fun.

There's a load of things like this... like... what does "Rewind" mean on
your DVD/CD/BluRay player? What are you winding if not tape? It should say
"Fast Backwards".

Does anyone remember the "keyboard click" noises some computers used to
make. The Atari ST was one such example. It let out a beep that was meant to
indicate you'd pressed a key. The reason? People were irked when pressing
keys on a keyboard made no sound because they were used to the noises
typewriters made. With capacitive touchscreens these days there's not even
any tactile feedback now.

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Vincent

Beta portable tapes from 1986, all still OK

Camera tube failed in late 1999

Portable still works and I was using it in November to recapture tapes since
I built a new PC with 2TB of HDDs (Pair of 1TB Samsung)

I still have Video 8 tapes from 1988 which replay with no problems.

"Martin" wrote in message
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Beta portable tapes from 1986, all still OK

Camera tube failed in late 1999

You had a camera with a *tube*?

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Max Demian

"Max Demian" wrote in message
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"Martin" wrote in message
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Beta portable tapes from 1986, all still OK

Camera tube failed in late 1999

You had a camera with a *tube*?

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Max Demian

My Sony betamax camera had tube. smear in low light . love it. In fact all
the first colour domestic cameras had tubes. They were made in a similar way
to colour crts with 3 colour sensors in 1 tube. Only the rich could afford 3
tube cameras . there were not and ccd as they had not been developed at the
beginning of Home portable video.
Gary

Two

Pick up tube - called Trinicon, and a monochrome viewfinder tube

"Max Demian" wrote in message
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"Martin" wrote in message
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Beta portable tapes from 1986, all still OK

Camera tube failed in late 1999

You had a camera with a *tube*?

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Max Demian

And the performance was pretty good.

Very good colour

Low light not great but showed a few CCD thingies that lux is not
everything.

My HVC4000P provided better pictures in a disco than a Vhs thingy with CCD
pickup - theirs was monochrome.

And of course my recording section was MUCH better

"Gary" wrote in message
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"Max Demian" wrote in message
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"Martin" wrote in message
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Beta portable tapes from 1986, all still OK

Camera tube failed in late 1999

You had a camera with a *tube*?

--
Max Demian

My Sony betamax camera had tube. smear in low light . love it. In fact
all the first colour domestic cameras had tubes. They were made in a
similar way to colour crts with 3 colour sensors in 1 tube. Only the rich
could afford 3 tube cameras . there were not and ccd as they had not been
developed at the beginning of Home portable video.
Gary