Tag Archives: VHS

Goodbye, VHS

Posted on Thursday, 28. August 2014 by hmvh

Farewell, VHS. The time has finally come to lay you to rest. It was April 2014 that everything related to VHS was rounded up for the final curtain call of a play dubbed “VHS2AVI”. The VHS digitisation project was ready to begin. Continue reading →

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Internet killed the video star

Posted on Thursday, 31. July 2014 by hmvh

While ripping what’s left of my VHS collection I was reminded of the tedium of physical media. No sooner had I transferred the first batch of videos onto my digital media player’s hard disk did it occur to me how convenient it is to pick a selection from an à la carte menu and play whatever I had fed the device with. Continue reading →

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Han shot first

Posted on Sunday, 4. May 2014 by hmvh

It shouldn’t surprise me then that it would be on “Star Wars Day”, May the fourth, that — as a matter of sheer and utter coincidence — today would be the day when I start ripping my old VHS copies. Honestly, I didn’t realise this until later! Continue reading →

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VHS digitisation: Theory before practice

Posted on Sunday, 20. April 2014 by hmvh

Ripping a bunch of VHS tapes is a most peculiar undertaking. It’s a project I’ve been waiting to start for several years. It’s a task that’s as simple or as complicated as you make it. I chose the less simple route because I wanted to understand a few things first. Continue reading →

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Music vs. VHS

Posted on Saturday, 5. January 2008 by hmvh

In the past, people associated the word “videos” with cassettes with movies on them. In the current context, sound and audio quality play a mere supporting role but when you precede the word “videos” with the word “music”, you suddenly have a completely different form of art. Continue reading →

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R.I.P. V.H.S. – part II

Posted on Saturday, 29. December 2007 by hmvh

In the interim, here’s a few more scans of my old VHS “artwork”. I’m holding on to those for the time being, and maybe someday I’ll just scan and post the whole lot somewhere before committing those to a bonfire, or something. Continue reading →

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Idiocracy is the way of the future

Posted on Sunday, 16. December 2007 by hmvh

So there I was the other night, watching my old, worn 1991 copy of Mad Max when it occurred to me how stupid people “in the near future” are made out to be: filthy, illiterate, violent, and just plain dumb. Continue reading →

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R.I.P. V.H.S.

Posted on Wednesday, 12. December 2007 by hmvh

The BetaMax vs. VHS (Video Home System) format (war) notwithstanding, just about any civilised household in the modern world had (or still has) a VCR. Dropping costs and the superior quality of DVD (and its own successors, complete with a new format war) have, in recent years, all but caused the demise of the VHS format, and it is almost with a tear in my eye that I, too finally bid farewell to my own old VHS collection. Continue reading →

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