I Thought My Childhood was LOST
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Linus tries to backup some embarrassing VHS tapes from his childhood with the help of Mark's VCR.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:18 Will this work?
3:40 What makes a GOOD VCR?
6:49 What else you'll need
9:44 WATCHING THE TAPES
13:04 The capture setup
13:34 TEENAGE LINUS
19:01 Linus tries French
19:39 Improving the quality
21:15 Bad Backup strategies
23:15 Outro - Věda a technologie
Thanks for the shoutout!
One thing I wish I could go back in time and change for my video was the capture thingy. I could never figure out how to get it to not cut the input audio level dramatically, so all my captures require a lot more work in the end than I'd like. But I was looking for something I could leave in a media center - if I were to remake that video I'd probably suggest a capture card and using OBS over the janky Amazon whatever I used!
Woah, it’s cool to see you here!
OBS is some powerful software. I recently used it to combine my phone’s camera, two web browsers, and my laptop’s screen together into a Discord live stream for doing homework with friends.
I’m not at surprised that it’s part of the tech stack required for digitally backing up VHS tapes.
i love that linus is a fan too!
Latent heat...
Loved that shoutout and to see you here. Great channel!
EV colab??? 😂
the irony of the tape saying "never forget us" and linus saying "i have no recollection of any of this"
Well of course Linus doesn't remember it, he wasn't there, that was Barney
@@Trillyana 😂😂😂
@@Trillyana sleeper agent linus. Wonder what his trigger word is...
@@MrChanw11 probably something in French
@@mrbanana6464 omelette au fromage
To anyone in the future looking at this video - I bought the Blackmagic devices shown here and used them to record my family videos. Here's some things you should know. Maybe it will save you a few days of troubleshooting:
- The Blackmagic Analog converter NEEDS a strong signal and may benefit from time-based correction (Tbc). It's an enterprise device that isn't tolerant to poor signal or loose timings. If your VHS is too old, or was recorded with a lower quality device, or you recorded a VHS from another VHS, it may not work with this Blackmagic analog converter. In my case, one entire family home video from 1997 didn't show any signal at all, but later in the tape, where TV shows were recorded, it worked perfectly. In other cases, the signal would cut out frequently. I couldn't afford a fancy VCR machine like Linus used here, so your mileage may vary. I do have an old Sony camcorder that has Tbc built in, and the analog converter captured footage off the 8mm tapes in that camcorder that perfectly.
- To address the issue above, I used an old Elgato Game Capture HD device, which as a consumer device is more accommodating to a variety of signal strengths and timings. This allowed me to capture VHS tapes at 720x480i 60fps on Windows using the Elgato software. I couldn't get above 640x480i 30fps on my Mac. Also doing HDMI out from the Elgato card to the Ultrastudio 3G Recorder didn't work for me. I had to capture from the Elgato card over USB.
- You will need RCA Female to BNC Male adapters like the one here to connect RCA cable to the Blackmagic analog converter: www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00VUG00FI?psc=1
- You'll also need RCA female to 1/4" audio jacks for the Blackmagic analog converter, and an SDI cable from the analog converter to the Ultrastudio.
- I got the Blackmagic Desktop Video software working on my M1 Max 64GB RAM Macbook Pro (running Monteray) & a 2018 Intel Macbook Air (running Catalina) without issue. At the time of writing - my M1 Pro 32GB RAM Macbook Pro (Ventura) cannot detect the Ultrastudio 3G Recorder, even after the November 2022 Blackmagic update. I'm guessing the newer operating system is the problem.
Hello Kyle, for an easier way to do this, what should I do? Should I just buy an legato?
@@brokenhero6828 Yeah if you don't care about maximum quality, using any analog capture device, such as the Elgato Game Capture HD device is a great affordable solution.
THANK YOU for this post! Unfortunately they spend more time reminiscing about Linus' youth than actually detailing this capture process. It appears the Blackmagic analog converter can also do S-Video, but there is little information about how it interfaces. Did you have any personal experience with S-Video and this device? Would this also require something like an SDI adapter?
@@brokenhero6828 I went the similar route as on the technology connections video, used an upscaler but then into a USB hdmi capture card.
@@brokenhero6828 I did recovery of an old instructional VHS tape for an old sewing type gadget my mom owns. I just used an $10-20 RCA to USB capture card that you'd find on Amazon, generic thing. Worked perfect to record with OBS and made sure to use thicker component wires to reduce interference and increase quality a bit.
The best part is: Shaved Linus (from before the pandemic) looked EXACTLY like the kid on that VHS tape. So this could have just as well been recorded in 2018.
Seeing Linus's soul leave his body when they all start singing is the best
Id give you a like, but you're at exactly 420. I can't bring myself to do it.
He had a soul?
Brings me back you should do a video on laser disc players
MDR
LinusCringeTips
A friendly well known reminder: Any time Linus is uncomfortable or in pain... It's great content!
Thank god he's an (was) awkward (is) klutz, hah.
🤣
Yeah, bring more pain to Linus, we need that content!
Remember - this was only 2 of the tapes he found up there - there are also more. Follow-up episode!
Well... Cringe is universal
As a native french speaker, seeing young linus speak very coherent french and current Linus barely understand anything he said is glorious
Hahahaha it’s true! My mother showed me home videos of me speaking mandarin at 3 years old to her, and I didn’t even know that was something I ever knew how to do. It shocked me.
Not related to language. But my handwriting skills as an adult are horrid compared to my skills as a teen.
how does 17 year old linus have a deeper voice than 35 yo linus lmao.
youthful testosterone rush.
it also happened to me, but I'm not as high pitched as linus now.
the point is I was so deep through 15-18, I couldn't so much as whisper in class without everyone looking back and complaining that it resounded and annoyed them.
now I'm 37 and meh...
Yvonne castrated him long time ago ;-)
@@tomascernak6112 Doubtful since he has 2 kids.....unless they have another father? Oh NOSE!
its also the youtube voice. look at youtubers over the years and their voices change due to the constant voices
@@radornkeldam One teach said "What's wrong with your voice?"
I don't know, personally, I didn't notice anything but apparently, other people found it strange.
As a native french speaker, seeing Linus speak french and watch him dab into Québec culture was quite a sight ahaha loved it!
Him singing "Ce n'est pas fini, ce n'est qu'en début" was the cherry on top lol
@@RBeeMedia according to his french it is long gone
as someone who has been learning french for 3 years its actually not bad
@@Technet0 i had french classes from age 10 to 18 , i gues it depends how long linus had lessons
C’est surprenant de le voir parler français!
As someone that speaks native level French, 17yo Linus speaking and interacting with a bunch of Quebec people is so cute, love it!!
I'd love to see them cover the different ways technology can be used to help learn a new language.
This video really made me appreciate when Linus speaks French on the WAN show. As an Ontarian, I have a lot of friends who could relate to not being able to say a word very well, but Linus actually committed to it at one point, and I super respect it.
How do you know he's 17?
@@Nebnub he was born in 1986 and the video was from 2003
2003 - 1986 = 17
he was 17 years old in 2003
@@seanathan14 damn…he’s 7 years older than me! Lol
I was a kid camp counselor in Quebec during the same period (early 2000s), it's was truly the kind of stuff we did and kids LOVED it! Never expected that from young Linus though! 😄 Mad props for your french by the way!
was his French good?
So I take it that Mark is LTT's resident "old person"?
him and Anthony
@@itsmejak7888 anthony reminds me of my retired boss lol
@@itsmejak7888 Anthony? Old? He's young guy 😀
It's one thing to be told the LTT crew is Canadian. It's another thing to see young Linus conversing and singing in French!
I always had a feeling Linus was a thespian.
Really love when Linus speak french
Wym everyone knows LTT crew is Canadian.
I laughed hard on Mark "local data hoarder"
💀💀💀💀
As if anyone ACTUALLY competes with Linus on data hoarding
@@Tyranzor64 The NSA would like to have a word with you
@@Tyranzor64 I have most of my internet life backed up on my hard drives. That's about over 4 TB of data. Google has more.
Data Hoarder - imagine putting that on a resume 🤣
the look on Linus's face while watching his younger self do dances on stage is probably the most relatable thing i've ever seen on this channel
I love how a Canadian Tech Channel uses an old Czech TV show (that I remember from my childhood) as B-roll
How did 17 year old Linus have a deeper voice than current Linus?
well, your voice seems to get real deep in teenage years, then go a little higher as you get older. humans are strange lol
Because he spoke French!
probably just recording quality
vascectomy
I've seen that happen a bunch. Either a weird phase of developing teenage voice, or teen boys just exaggerated their newly found deep voice
Never, have I ever seen Linus this awkward! This is actually quite sweet! Putting yourself out there like this is pretty huge!
trying his be to make is older audience feel even older 💀💀
I'd define it as a cringefest :D (in a good way)
But I definitely see why the post traumatic stress burried these memories deep down.
I'm so happy you guys shouted out Technology Connections. Such a great channel. Literally the kind of thing CZcams was made for.
On the subject of archival- I once quipped to my teacher that print was dead (1987). His response has stuck with me for over 30 years. He said , "Print will never die, because it is the only medium for storing information that does not require a device to decode it." Thanks, Mr. Anderson
Same as photographic prints and cinema film. Granted you need a projector for film screenings, but it is possible to capture old films frame by frame. Obscure codecs on archaic and degraded magnetic media .... not so much.
It makes me so happy that Linus also loves Technology Connections
can't digitalize analogue tapes without making a technology connection
I came down to comment these literal exact words and here you are with top comment. So true tho
Where else I could watch an hour long video on water heating solutions. And then a sequel. I love it.
I was so happy when I heard them shout it out
Been binging his videos recently, sometimes at 1.5x speed lol but they’re soo good
Linus cringing at himself is so funny and absolutely relateable
That's how you know you have grown as a person
I'm 32 now, recently came across some pictures of 16 year old me from 2006. Smack in the middle of my "I'm not an emo" phase. It's so bad.
15:43 That's Pain Harold hahaha
This could not have possibly come at a more ideal time. I literally have two file folder boxes filled with VHS tapes that my family has asked me to digitize. I've been thinking about different ways to go along doing it, and now I have my solution. Thank you so much. And thank you to Alec for his videos as well. Been enjoying the TC channel for over a year. I'm also just a stone's throw away on the other side of I-355. :)
Do it now while its still fresh in you mind. You never know what can happen to destroy all those memories.
Frankly, I didn't expect to see a tape of old czech show in the LTT show 4:21... Thx Linus!!! Brings up so many memories!
Seeing young Linus talk French is like a fever dream, as a french folk it weirds me out and I find it amazing at the same time
Oh hi Neo
De ouf, c'était très étrange lol
Tellement xD
C'était drôle il est bon en francais!
Bisous de france Linus !
Crazy how I was literally having a conversation with my parents about our old vhs tapes and how we can save them and you uploaded this
"I got you" litterly
@@CopyMain Where's Paste tho?
How does Linus know
i started doing this a few days ago. insane that this video pops up
Yesterday my father tried to give me some VHS tapes to take but I did not have space on my motorcycle
I really didn't expect to see linus sing early 2000's Star Academy songs, my life is complete.
Fun fact: Recording live TV to watch when it's more convienent was the original purpose of VCR/VHS, as it was a Video Cassete *Recorder* first, and a player second. Movies to be sold on VHS for home markets didn't come about till years later.
Don't forget recording and playing back those special family moments. Anyway, there had to be enough VCRs in home to provide the market for the film industry. That was the Blockbuster video store boom of the 80s, and the start of the VHS vs Betamax wars.
as someone from quebec seeing linus trying to speak French is amazing
😅
Same, I also worked at the same summer camp a few years later, I probably had bosses who worked directly with him haha
Honestly he was good, I wondered why he's French was so good, now we know.
@@NicolasChapadosGirard his
Totally! I was grinning all the way through. Somehow his broken french is very cute, but he's not the best but good for what was the assignement about in the camp. If he went from 0 to french, i think just from what was shown, he was around 45% because he was using proper verbs, but wasn't confident in the sounds french forces us to use. Which is totally normal when learning the language. It was pretty great to watch XD
I suddenly have an urge to see Linus speak French and do a whole video in French.
2nd that!
+1
There is 18 seconds of him speaking French in "Driving a MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR Autonomous Car!" video.
si!
LTT français! Très bien!
I've been watching Linus for YEARS! And as someone who went to summer camp every year as a child, I LOVE THIS by far my favorite video yet! Thanks LMG for this! You had me looking up pics and videos from my own camp experiences and yeah... It's something.
Wutf? How did you get your hands on the Czech version of Who wants to be a millionaire on VHS? I'm stunned. 😄
Přesne taky to nechapu
@@electrix4677 Je to video na CZcams, uvádí tam i název. Není to jeho nahrávka z té kazety. :)
czcams.com/video/tMA5aH_olAQ/video.html&ab_channel=hesl Tohle je to originální video.
Seeing the sincere look of cringe on Linus' face was the best part of this video. That was pure emotion being expressed without any filter
Finding out Linus was a french camp counselor is my favourite thing of today
what traumatized me the most is that I think I was one of the kids there since I can clearly remember something like around that time when I was a kid XD
15:40 Linus' pain is soo palpable. It takes guts to put your old gringey memories on display for the internet to see. Thank you for the reminder of how important it is to archive old memories
This is so goodamn wholesome. I love how sentimental this video feels, technology and LTT-ness aside
04:13 you caught me offguard when I saw our czech original version of TV show "wanna be millionare?" i DID NOT expected that as an example of data to be worth saving. XD well done
The same
I am more curious where they dug it up.
Yeah I was like "that guy looks oddly familiar" and then out of nowhere "modřánky" 😂
I love that Linus Media has an expert for every single facet of technology. VCRs and tapes, old game systems, emulation, etc.
The ones you mention are related to one each other.
I'd say, old stuff, new stuff, camera stuff, server stuff, electrical stuff, circuit stuff, editing stuff, manufacturing stuff etc.
Yup they are bunch of "experts". 😂
This guy is no expert
i think when you let your worker stretch their interest in a free and non-exploitative way, most company will have adepts in many facets of skill
in most cases, the workplace is not conducive for the company to find out this kind of stuff
Technology connections gets a shout out! His work and content are some of the best I’ve seen on retro tech! Glad to see him get the credit he deserves!
You can actually get 6 and 8 head VCRs. I remember getting one of the higher end ones that was sold as a studio standard model and it had pretty much zero static when you did a fast forward or reverse.
Nothing like watching a younger version of yourself and realizing that what you remember and what happened are two different things. Always fun to look back at old videos going what the hell was I thinking at that age.
Even worse when you remember that both you and all other parties involved may misremember, but misremember in entirely different ways, both very different to how it actually happened!
I look back at myself just 5 years ago and think what the hell was I doing. I'll probably look back in another 5-10 years in the future and think the same thing about myself now lol even tho I think I'm doing pretty good currently
As a frenchman, hearing young Linus speak french is the funniest thing I've heard today
Honestly I closed my eyes tested my French, then rewinded, let’s just say my French teacher would be disappointed
Assez drôle oui 😂 Linus au Qc qui s’fait forcé à parler francais 😂
It sounded very weird right ?
I could not understand it
@@HappyDude1 honestly French is more of a back of the tongue gravely langue. Linus was like the direct opposite
this was honestly a treat. not just linus embarrassing himself but the nostalgia. I remember rewinding tapes. good times
Linus , je suis impressionnée par ton Français même après 20ans !
Even your french from back in the days was very good ! It's wholesome ❤️
As a camp counselor of 3 years I can confirm that the kids go nuts for the crazy stuff, random improv skits about magical shoehorns can be a lot more fun than you would imagine
I mean... I'll take the simpler route of saying:
As someone who was a kid; I can confirm xD
Mark has that cool and calm dad vibe. I like him.
yup exactly what I'm thinking
Tape: "Don't forget about us"
Linus: "I don't remember any of this"
yes! thank you so much ive been tryin to get into this to archive our family memories thanks LMG
Being from Quebec, hearing your French as a 17yo I can tell it was pretty good compared to most English people I met from the rest of Canada. Kudos
c'est vrai
Oui c'est vrai
Totalement vrais
@@timotheeb3981 quebec french is horrible. the way quebec folks pronounce oui is hilarious.
Well in France they use broken english all the time. They think using the english word instead of the correct french one sounds cool, which it does not. It kinda sound pathetic.
VHS tech, so much memories. Thanks for that. And second, Linus speaking French and singing Star Académie is priceless.
parle anglish ?, Le Star Académie, les Françoise
Yes
I had all my old tapes and camcorder tapes digitized a few months ago. I used a company called The Digitize Center and it came out great.
They made those transfer device and sold them commercially, but I never bought one. I always figured I'd have time to do it later. I do still have blank disc and a fully functional blu-ray disc player.
I'm fully aware of this. I made sure to backup all my childhood VHSs a few years ago, using my family's last remaining VCR. I then encouraged my grandparents to do the same with all the camcorder tapes they had lying around (in lots of widely different formats, since camcorders evolved), as well as get their 50-yearsold Super8 in for professional digitalization. Now I can watch 1) my fav choildhood movie in all its grainy glory and 2) my dad when he was 7, all from any online device.
As a french living in Quebec, it's so weird hearing Linus speaking french. And for a beginner/learner, not so bad actually! Heavy accent but understandable.
En effet, pas si mal ;)
If you do t mind the « en francaisness »
@@xpander301 En fait ca fait meme sortir de la video genre "WTF" y se passe quoi tellement tu t'y attends pas? Linus a déjà fait reference à son francais, mais maintenant on sait pourquoi. ^^
@@loiclegarrec4426 Je dois parler régulierement anglais au quotidien à la job depuis +10ans, et je fais encore des erreurs de ce genre. Et pareil quand on a des anglophones qui essaient de parler francais, tu laisses glisser, t'es juste content que les gars fassent des efforts. Donc après 20 ans sans pratique c'est vraiment pas pire. Bises d'expat au Quebec.
@@TheRealPhoenix_Retromods I get that, I'm Puerto Rican so my native tongue is Spanish and when I was learning Italian people are super for it since you're at least trying. I love seeing other people take an interest in my language, especially since it's kind of throwaway and common lol.
My Grandfather recently passed away, after spending the last couple of months clearing his home which was difficult, we couldn’t keep everything but I saved the VCR and DVD player, because as Linus pointed out, we don’t keep these things anymore, finding old home videos in his things and having a way to play them back is wonderful, I’ll certainly be hoping to follow this as a guide to try and back up those memories.. so thank you for posting this.
Sorry for your Loss. I certainly hope you and your family retain and can relive all those years together with the help of those memories.
I agree, sorry to hear of your loss and I hope your able to save those precious memories and can watch them wherever you feel down and need a pick-up ❤️
Haha Linus was always a born entertainer, he just gets better at it. Love this whole video!
This video has been my life. For the past two years I have been converting my parents old media (vhs, cassette, 7"&10" Reel to Reel, and 8mm film) to digital.
I appreciate that Linus put his childhood memories on internet. And also reminding people to backup there backups. Cause memory are precious...
A LTT / Technology Connection collab is something I'm surprised hasn't happened already.
Yes yes I need this
This has been one of your best videos in a long while. If I could give it 1000 likes I would. Excellent work LMG
6:25 I hear there's a great VCR Repair shop in Milwaukee. They're lightning fast!
My Dad passed away recently and we have some tiny vhs tapes which I plan to digitalize. I think this video came just at the right time.
Thanks!
JoeProPhotos
I'm sorry for your loss
There's places that can do it for you if you don't have the time. We did it for my wife when her dad died a few years back.
I am sorry for your loss, and I do hope that you are able to retrieve those memories so he can live on.
My condolences
I bought a camcorder kit on ebay for $30, used OBS to record all my family's tapes from when I was a kid and then uploaded them to a new youtube channel so my entire family could watch them, even my family overseas. Its not as good quality as you guys got but it did the job for me.
Ha saheb when coming back home to Pakistan ?
Yeah honestly a miniDV camcorder + firewire capture is fine for 99% of people. Is a thousand dollar VHS machine better? Sure, but I'm quite happy how mine are turning out. I just ended up using an old rig I had laying around and put Windows XP on it. I feel like the expensive VHS machines with TBC are all of only a few % better and there's forums dedicated to that you can visit for comparison.
This is genuinely really heartwarming
omg what an awesome episode, the tec and the vibes just great
Came for VHS tech insights, stayed for Linus singing performance 😂👏🏾
I remember way back then my uncle had a library of VHS tapes, and I'd always rummage around and check for the unmarked ones because 80% of the time, they were p0rn. Good times.
ah... the "unmarked" folder of modern times...
@@PrograError Nah, they're the "homework" folders.
You mean the pron folder?
lol this is a golden comment
The EXACT reason I haven’t sent the old VHS tapes I found in the loft to one of those digitising companies. I need to find out what’s on them first 😂
I can so feel Linus' embarrassment haha, it's alright Linus. We all get embarrassed at our younger selves. I think it's charming though haha, thank you for sharing this with us
I've had old tapes here in Phoenix in the summer, Garage can hit 130°+ F, I've seen MANY of tapes melted into a molten mess....
Friends was on regular air tv, NOT cable. I grew up without cable as well.
Oh my god I love this!! Seeing young Linus oh VHS is the blast from the past I didn’t know I needed 😅
and getting to see him crinched hard
this hits me in the nostalgia feels 1000% as a child of a VHS rental store owner. Love it.
I still have one of those bigger sized CRTs with a built in VHS and DVD player working perfect. It never saw much use since its in my parents home in Mexico that we only stayed when we visited family. Love that thing.
@@xdizzle0460 Those VCR/CRT Combos were nice
I would be careful with loading that attic with much more stuff. I am not familiar with Canadian building codes, but in the USA the bottom is probably not designed for much load on the bottom for "stuff". The only thing holding the bottom onto the diagonals is pairs of small metal plates. If you load too much on the bottom you can overload those plates and the piece holding the bottom can separate from the diagonal 2x4's. I have seen the ceiling come down totally when people load their attic with boxes of books and other household goods.
This is a really great video though. I have a lot of VHS as well as small Digital videotapes that need to be transferred to the web for storage.
I digitized a whole bunch of mini-VHS tapes from the family camcorder dating back to 93 or so. Used a converter cartridge, a known good VCR, and a startech RCA capture device, then recorded the realtime playback. Pretty much all of them were in perfect shape somehow. One got partially overwritten by some mid 90s Bill Clinton news scandal lmao
The tapes seem pretty robust - if they don't have mould, and hadn't been chewed in a machine in the past, the vast majority seem fine from boxes of tapes I have.
Watching you trying to speak french after all those years, was super funny
Is he a Quebecer?
@@Dark.Pri77 not only quebec speaks french in canada, not all french speakers live in/come from quebec, just the majority.
@@Ash_Lawless I've had a few French friends who've spent time in Canada, and lets just say they were not polite about Quebecois French...
Every one of the LTT staff when on screen is a natural.
Mark is just the latest addition to the cast. 👍
What it really is I think is having the “right” person on screen for the right subject matter. If it’s something that they are passionate about and are proper experts, they could go on all day about it.
Linus is very good at making people feel comfortable too. His goofiness puts people at ease.
Edzel is not
They do screening tests, sometimes you see someone for only a single video
Did a massive tape conversion project some years back. Found out that some public access tapes I made when I was really young (back in like 2002-2006) were really screwed up by water (no mold, but plenty of sticky shedding). Managed to bake them to the point where they would *play* with TBC, but a few still looked terrible.
Now, as far as the captures proper, I did those on a VCR I bought new at Walmart in the back half of the 2010s (bought on clearance about a year after JVC stopped manufacturing VHS parts--they stopped doing that in 2016). Decent TBC and HDMI scaler built in, deinterlacing looks half decent, HDCP is fairly easy to strip out of the signal entirely, basically the footage looks pretty damn good when recorded on my overpriced capture card (Ninja V+). It's effectively the same thing Technology Connections did (I think I made a video on the subject some time before I got my hands on a Ninja V+). That VCR is recent enough to be found in thrift stores for like $10 (USD), though they don't always work by the time they make it to the thrift store, obviously.
Was nice to see! I'm from Montréal, Québec, it was funny to see Linus talk french.
It's really not as bad as he thinks for a native english speaker, hope you can visit Québec soon again Linus!
Love a Linus speaking in French. Star Académie was also a huge tv show in France, as u said, sort of American Idol mixed with big brother as chosen contestants were staying in a castle all together and everything was filmed.
yep and star academie was "star academy" in France like if the show was coming from US, because they love America.
@@DrLoveQc ahh yes true! Thought it was written in proper french.
Best. Episode. Ever.
I’m crying from laughing at Linus’ mortified reactions. Thank you, David for making him play it!!! 😂
From another Canadian ex-pat who doesn’t remember a word of French (and I went to a French-immersion school in Ottawa for Kindergarten and 1st grade!) 🇨🇦
I NEED MORE OF THIS
I had Sony SLV-R1000 VHS player brought from e-bay ten years ago for $50. It listed as for parts or not working. It not powering on because SMPS is faulty. Changed driver ic and few smoothing caps etc. Serviced tape mechanism and works like charm. I have basic VHS player we used that from 90's and that still working too. That stopped working with giving fuzzy screen out one time and i had changed QFP surface mount ic with normal AC soldering iron, because i don't have money to buy proper soldering station in my school days.
Glad to see technology connections getting some love from bigger channels also great vid its nice to have some insight into the challenges of data hoarders or even just things your average family might face with record keeping
I'm so proud of my parents. They aren't very technical but they still digitized all of their VHS nearly twenty years ago and gave disks to my sister and I.
Just be aware that disc rot is a real problem now too. Better rip those discs before you can't!
I found super 8. I don’t know what’s on it but it probably vacation footage when I was little. Tis gonna be an expensive pita to rescue
@@pietrmuffei8874 nope, there services all around the globe. just have transfered mine two weeks ago.
Have you backed the disks up as well? :)
@@Allexz Definitely.
I’ve recently really been missing the TV I had through my teens and most of my 20’s, which was a big ass box TV with a DVD/VHS combo that let me watch anything I wanted, and if people didn’t care so much about ‘amazing picture quality’ now, and cared about stuff like… a good story line and stuff, then they would still be pretty popular I bet.
Hi Linus, thank you for sharing that was actually quite nice I was both a camper when I was a kid at the counselor when I was in my early twenties I actually gave up Woodstock to be a camp counselor because it was one of the most wonderful experiences I ever had. I really enjoy your channel although some of it goes over my head and there's a little esoteric for me but still quite enjoyable thanks much
Haha, showing a Czech version of Who wants to be a millionaire while talking about TBC got me :D my child memories came back immediately. BTW that host name is Peter Czech :D
How is Great Czechia ? How can I come ?
koukám nejsem sám koho to pobavilo :D
Chcete být milonářem? V *mém* LTT videu!?
"Aha, nojo, on je Milionář asi i v Kanadě. Počkat, logo Nova? Počkat, Vladimír Čech?! Počkat :-D"
I digitized my childhood vhs tapes recently, fortunately we had a vcr and had stored them well.
My parnets have over dozen of VHS tapes from my childhood (and before) on the shelf under TV. It's been there for over 15 years. I still have VHS player, few times I checked what was in there. My dad already digitized some of it to CD's over a decade ago and later I copied CD's to PC.
I have digitize rest of it, so it won't be gone.
yeah same, was lucky too that our Christmas tape from 89 had no dmg..
The best way to preserve data/film. would be to use a tapedrive like the "IBM-LTO 8".
The device mentioned above, is especially designed for long term backup of data for a very low cost per GB or TB.
One tape guarantees a preservation of data for at least 20 to 25.
The Panasonic AG-1980 is actually pretty horrible by nowadays standards. I've owned the European clone NV-FS200 with the TBC and everything. The problem is it contains the vsc2911 module for picture processing and it goes bad. It is very old and its projected lifespan is about 10 years tops. This VCR is from about 1992, so it is pretty much done. In time the picture starts looking very dark and the color range becomes hugely limited. Blacks are black and all the blues slowly become also black. And the module cannot be replaced anymore, the production of its clones ended in 2015. Put the VCR on a shelf somewhere and use something more recent for digitizing. By the way, I learned how to service and align all the Panasonic"s recent mechanisms (G, G2, K, Z, and R2 ). I'm from Europe, so I can recommend the NV-HS1000, HS950 (K mech), or if you want the Z mech, go with the NV-HS860 and HS960. All of these have the TBC circuit integrated and are still very well serviceable.
This was VERY wholesome, I really wish I had videos of when I was a camp counselor when I was younger. I really miss everyone from then can hardly remember half of the peoples names
Czech version of Who wants to be a millionaire at 4:20 was pretty random blast from the past 🤯
Great topic for a video though! I was just recently thinking about digitization of some old home movies.
I was looking for this comment and I'm glad I found it. I expected a lot, but I certainly did not expect a czech version of millionaire in a video from LTT, lol
OMG ! i'm from Quebec and this is SOOO nice to see this !
Your french is actually very good !!
kind of weird to hear star academy songs LOLLL
It's neat to see LTT leaning into the specialties/interests/expertise of staff. Mark's great, cool video.
8:13 Linus giving a shoutout to Technology Connections was great, I love that channel too
The fact that I even remember using VHS makes me realize how old I’m getting.
22y old here, I also remember it.
i still got planty of vhs movies and 4 vhs players i am 31 right now
I'm only 21 and grew up mostly using vhs... although any new movies we bought were DVD
honestly, they went obsolete in the 90s. Not that long ago.
@@Cocytus no I still used VHS in early 2000s even though DVD player was the next new thing.
Been using my Retrotink 5x with 3 different VCR (one is an S-VHS player with S-Video out) going into a USB capture card and capturing everything with OBS. Works great!
The Panasonic machine he used to output it to digital was a SUPER VHS machine or SVHS. SVHS had a record play resolution of 425 lines, whereas regular VHS was about 260. I used to record ALL my analog TV on to SVHS at high speed, (LP) so I could skip the commercials. Further, use the stereo in/outs for audio instead of what everybody did was record through that Channel 3 crap. IOW the record/play was through the antenna in/outs, those 75 ohms in/outs with the threads on them. An SVS camera was very expensive, but the videos from them looked as good as your local news station covering its top story of that evening.
I lost a bunch of my paintings and tech in a flood this year. Gigapixel Ai helped upscale a bunch of them so I could get them digitally printed, and the quality is freakin' amazing. There's nothing like the originals (I lost at least 20 paintings) and they don't have the texture and love I put into the originals but it's nice to have something close.
damn just seeing young linus speaking french is overwhelming
not gonna lie, young linus looked like such good kid
too bad my family was too poor for a video recording for me back then, i would've loved to rewatch my younger self, only got a handful of photos from back in the day
Remember brother, we had natural video recorder and keeper which is will stand as long as we alive, and never stopped recording and keep it in our mind and heart,
you probably can playback that using your own memories inside your head, just need something that can trigger the memories which is usually i used and my vision becomes like the time i wanted, at least for severals second you will be see the playback then its the cue your brain has running playback of your memories.
just to say this way is harder to remember every details,
he was a pyro
I still have several working VHS players in my house, and have already backed up things like our home movies to DVD and computer files. In Europe, there was a viewdata service called Teletext broadcast along with the TV picture, and you can now use AI software to decode that data off old VHS tapes! I have had plenty of experience of tape problems - dirt, mold, stickiness and even tapes that snapped and were stuck back together...
21:55 To be fair, any BluRay player I know of can still play DVDs, and Windows, Linux, and OSX can all play DVDs as long as you have at least a DVD-ROM drive. I've taken to ripping a lot of my movies to my Plex server, then putting the ones I've ripped into my storage locker.
Also, 8mm, Hi8, and Digital8 you can plug into computer through firewire and a Digital8 camcorder. I've also archived my MiniDV tapes this way too. dvgrab for Linux is a great no-frills option for getting the raw data, but I myself de-interlaced the files through ffmpeg and got rid of the raw files (though all I did was de-interlacing).
I still keep the original cassettes too (still within eyesight in my closet), although now I don't have a MiniDV or Digital8 camcorder.
Indeed, though the longevity of burned DVDs seems to often be poor at best.