That’s the kind of results I would hope for. Thank you!
Eh, I’d expect the prices for pro equipment to go up exponentially, so at that price point it ought to be around 7x better (depending on the base).
I have used a couple of those cheap dongles; the worst part was getting it to work under Linux. I got an image like you did, but I wasn’t going for any sort of archival purposes. (Even with the cheap output I am sure there is some massaging/enhancing to make the results look better, but for what I needed it did not even enter my consideration to do so, much less have been worth the effort. A real hacker would probably just leave out the dongle, digitise the raw output from the video unit— bandwidth is only 6 to 8 MHz or so—, archive THAT just in case, and turn it into video via custom DSP.)
I suggest you search the interwebs for videos of someone else playing football, copy those and tell people that they are you. Truth is so 2015.
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I get spammed by Legacybox .com on a regular basis. If you give them your email address (I wish I’d used a burner account), it works out to about $12/tape.
A number of years ago, I got a Panasonic HDD DVD recorder and converted all my VHS tapes to DVD. Even when played on a big screen with a blu ray player the picture is quite acceptable. Certainly no worse than a regular standard def broadcast on a HD TV.
Our library has a media lab that has a VHS to DVD or digital copier. I’ve never used it, so I can’t speak to the quality of copy/digitization, but it is free. You don’t even need a library card.
The cost is for a known good quality VCR, which is the first in the chain of Garbage In, Garbage Out, a Time Base Corrector which is necessary to properly stabilize the image for capture and known good capture device. None of which is not necessarily pro equipment, just supply and demand having driven up prices.
As for raw video capture, it’s being worked on as we speak: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/394168-Current-status-of-ld-decode-vhs-decode-%28true-backup-of-RF-signals%29, though it’s still a long way off and requires really specialize DIY equipment. 99.9% of what is is that thread is completely over my head!
None of the above is likely of interest to the OP and those have responded, but as with most of my posts, I pass along what I know in the event it’s helpful to others.
If you’re near one, Costco photo department does video to digital conversions.
Nitpick: Riverbanks, not Riverside.
Knead
Columbia native
Might be more than you want to pay, but I used a service called SouthTree a while ago to convert some old Beta tapes and it was about $9/tape. Worth it for me since I had no Beta player and didn’t want to futz with it. Their “full price” is about $20/tape, but they regularly have 50% off sales and there are some volume discounts that might come in with 15 tapes.