Apr 05
The first thing I’d like to blog about is the state of my digitisation project. I have digitised all my VHS cassettes. There were 43 in total and after converting them all into 0s and 1s, they amounted to 600Gb which is currently sitting on a large hard drive, mirrored RAID for safety. My next …
Apr 18
If you actually subscribe to this blog feed, or indeed, my Twitter, you will notice some pretty random posts about living green and eco tips. They may seem a little random, given what I normally blog about, so I just wanted to explain. A few years back, part of the great digitisation project of 2008 …
Nov 29
I just went into the garage and found another box of 20 VHS-C and 12 VHS tapes! However these look like they’ve got mould growing on them. Worth saying that if you are doing anything like this, it’s important to let the media climatise to room temperature before using it. If you don’t then you …
Nov 02
Well, it’s taken me some time, but I have begun digitising my video tapes. As I might have mentioned before, these are tapes of raw video footage that have been shot over the years for various film projects. There are also a few old TV programmes I wanted capture. I’m doing this for two reasons …
Aug 02
Well it’s a few years late in the coming, but today I took a bit start to my Digitisation Project. This project is something I’ve been needing to do for a while. It’s basically a de-clutter exercise where I try to digitise old stuff to and free up some space. Today I started on paper. …
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