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wizardglick

5 things H day

Jul 09, 2009 11:11

207. Yesterday was Movie Night with cheddar-wurst, sauerkraut, chips and dips and "Transformers" (the first one). Actually, it was a half-way decent movie as far as the story. Some of the actions scenes were just too fast for my pre-video game visual cortex processors to trake. Just looked like a blur to me. (which probably took a team of CGI ( Read more... )

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spirithound July 10 2009, 01:39:10 UTC

My parents were talking about duplicating out home videos onto digital media some years ago. Don't know if they every got around to it.
Semi-relatedly, our old VCR bit the dust about 10 years ago, so my brother and I took it apart. Really interesting, even if I had no idea what most of the pieces really did. Got a nice strong magnet out of the deal too. :)

wizardglick July 10 2009, 13:14:54 UTC

Well, I wasn't specifically thinking about converting all my analog content. I was thinking more along the lines of replacing Grateful Dead show cassettes with Dick's Picks, albums with iTunes,movies with DVDs. But now that you mention it, A-D conversion is a capability I'd like to be able to support for a few more years, anyway.

And Makers love cannibilizing tape machines. Magnets, motors, recording heads. Lots of cool stuff in there.