Optical disk is a flat piece of material with dents, that dont want to be
there
On Thu, Jun 6, 2019, 9:46 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I’m thinking when in doubt, do both. Although I’m not sure I agree
> that digital storage (USB stick, hard drive, cloud storage, …) will last
> longer than an optical disk, which seems pretty archival to me.
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> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Steve Jones
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 6, 2019 9:12 PM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - 16mm home movie transfer
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> Why not put it on digital, that way youre not dealing with medium death?
> Archive online in whatever resolution you want.
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> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019, 6:10 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Certainly BluRay is more current, but I would expect original DVD format
> to last longer just from the size of the bits. I don't know for certain,
> but I've heard a couple of different theories about how long the original
> CD format would last; anywhere from a decade (I have some that are way
> older than that, all the way up to a century. Time will tell (pun intended).
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> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 3:51 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
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> There’s a local place here in Naperville Memory Keepers that says they do
> the work in house. Some resources on the Internet seem to say 1080p is
> required to capture all the detail from 16mm film, I’m just not sure that’s
> true. Also not sure if I want .mov format on a hard disk, it seems more
> flexible, but just getting a playable BluRay and maybe a couple for family
> seems easier.
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> I haven’t seen these movies for decades, my dad used to periodically rent
> a projector. I can’t believe the old cars. Hudsons and DeSotos and
> Studebakers.
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> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 6, 2019 3:24 PM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - 16mm home movie transfer
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Is this likely to result in better quality than the analog-to-analog
> transfer that was done to VHS?
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> 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.
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> 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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