There used to be a place in Cupertino CA (IIRC) that did all kinds of
transfers of photos, movies, audio recordings, etc. Don't know if they
still exist or not. Peterson's Video Transfer.
Did a quick google search, and it appears they may be some sort of
franchise or something. They are also in Las Vegas now...
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On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 12:55 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
> Maybe someone on this list knows the answer to my questions. I have
> recently come into possession of 16 mm home movies my dad made mostly in
> the 1950’s. Some color, most B&W. Even on a 16mm projector, the quality
> is probably worse than what you can do with any smartphone today.
>
>
>
> At some point someone had them professionally transferred to a VHS tape,
> as a result the original 50 ft reels have been spliced and respooled onto 7
> inch reels holding 400 feet each. I found a VHS player in the attic and
> viewed the tape, the quality is nothing to write home about, not sure how
> much is the quality of the original and how much is the limitations of
> VHS. In any case, I feel VHS tape is too fragile and does not lend itself
> to sharing copies with relatives, plus who has a VHS player anymore? So I
> am looking at having a new frame-by-frame transfer done to either DVD or
> BluRay. Cost looks to be around $80 per 400 ft reel (20 cents per foot).
>
>
>
> Is this likely to result in better quality than the analog-to-analog
> transfer that was done to VHS?
>
>
>
> Is there any advantage to Blu-Ray over DVD? I’m not sure the difference
> between 1080p and 720p will matter given the source material.
>
>
>
> And which is best, a regular DVD or BluRay format, or an editable .mov
> format that will need to be modified to play in most DVD or BluRay
> players? I’m not thinking I am going to be editing this and inserting
> chapter titles or captions or commentary, but never say never. Right now
> I’m leaning toward something I can just pop in a player and watch.
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