Al Oregon Posted February 25, 2017 Report Share Posted February 25, 2017 I had gotten these tapes some years ago (probably 10 or more). I looked at a couple and just set them all aside. There are 13 tapes. They all fit in a Medium Priority Flat Rate box so shipping would be the $13 or so that USPS charges. If someone is interested, just pay $14 to cover shipping and you can have them. Here are the following auction numbers that were included - 6, 7, 7A, 8 9, 11, 12, 13 Session 1 (4-22-94), 13 Session 2 (4-22-94), 14 (7-15-94), 15 (9-23-94), 17 Part 1 (3-2-95) and 17 Part 2 (3-3-95). I have shown the dates after the #'s. The first 7 tapes did not have a date but they would be prior to April 22, 1994. Good piece of history. If someone can copy to DVD, that would be even better. No guarantees on the tapes but they have been sitting on a shelf in my office so no weather, dampness or other possible problems. First person to message me that they want them can claim them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumblebee Posted February 26, 2017 Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 I have a Sony VHS to DVD converter. If nobody else has claimed these I will just to upload them to archive.org to be preserved for the collecting community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted February 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2017 I sent you a message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted March 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2017 I have sent them to Jason and he will convert and upload them. Thank you for taking the time, Jason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 1, 2017 Report Share Posted March 1, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockinron110 Posted March 2, 2017 Report Share Posted March 2, 2017 Jason Thanks so much for Archiving this important marble history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumblebee Posted March 2, 2017 Report Share Posted March 2, 2017 My pleasure, thanks. When I'm finished if anyone has more that aren't in Al's lot, I will be happy to covert them to digital format if you'll pay shipping. I know there were more of them but I missed threads in the past where they were offered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 2, 2017 Report Share Posted March 2, 2017 I have some (from George Sourlis and Bob Block). Hubby put mine on disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBlock Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 I have a complete library :-) I can lend you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumblebee Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 Just got Al's box. Am converting the first tape as I type. Tapes are definitely showing their age but still worth preserving, although I'm not sure I'm up to converting Bob's entire library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budwas Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 On Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 2:47 PM, bumblebee said: I have a Sony VHS to DVD converter. If nobody else has claimed these I will just to upload them to archive.org to be preserved for the collecting community. What a nice jester! Thank you! Once they are uploaded to the archives will you be posting a link to them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumblebee Posted March 3, 2017 Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 7 minutes ago, budwas said: What a nice jester! Thank you! Once they are uploaded to the archives will you be posting a link to them? I will upload them and provide a link when I am done. My main concern right now is I didn't realize each tape was so long. First one is approaching 2 hours and I don't think my DVD recorder can hold much more than that, so if I have to stop and continue on a new disc it might be tricky patching them together into one file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBlock Posted March 4, 2017 Report Share Posted March 4, 2017 About a year ago I lent a buddy of mine my Grateful Dead collection of 167 master tapes from various shows I taped and he's slowly working his way through converting them and putting them on archive.org. I think there's 65 or 70 auctions that I produced tapes for. I can feel your pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumblebee Posted March 4, 2017 Report Share Posted March 4, 2017 Wow, that's a lot of tapes to make. They aren't short but luckily the first one ended literally a minute before my DVD ran out. There are quality/color issues on the tape so here's what I did: 1. Ripped to DVD 2. Ripped to digital. 3. Uploaded to YouTube and ran entire video through "auto-fix" using YouTube's tools. This helped with color and contrast. Here's the result here: https://archive.org/details/BlocksBoxMarbleAuction17Part11995March02 Let me know what you think can be improved in terms of color intensity and contrast. I can dial those in manually on YouTube and retry it and probably the same settings will work well with most of the tapes. I prefer putting them on archive.org because it's a non-commercial endeavor and you get options for downloading etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBlock Posted March 5, 2017 Report Share Posted March 5, 2017 You will definitely find color issues and general resolution issues on these things. They were made back in the 80s and 90s and the consumer video cameras were low resolution and the white balance feature was not well-developed back then. In addition, they were never intended for archival purposes and were reproduced on bulk videotape resulting in random noise issues.And depending on how they were stored you will likely find all kinds of base matrix tape issues as well as dropouts, etc. You might want to try baking them before ripping them and that might improve the performance. I have the masters for all these tapes, so I can save you a generation on the copying if you want to borrow them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumblebee Posted March 5, 2017 Report Share Posted March 5, 2017 11 hours ago, BobBlock said: You will definitely find color issues and general resolution issues on these things. They were made back in the 80s and 90s and the consumer video cameras were low resolution and the white balance feature was not well-developed back then. In addition, they were never intended for archival purposes and were reproduced on bulk videotape resulting in random noise issues.And depending on how they were stored you will likely find all kinds of base matrix tape issues as well as dropouts, etc. You might want to try baking them before ripping them and that might improve the performance. I have the masters for all these tapes, so I can save you a generation on the copying if you want to borrow them. It wouldn't be worth the effort for me to do the master tapes. Somebody with better equipment would be best suited. That being said, I think these are good enough to start with. Interestingly, YouTube detects the classical music on these as copyrighted and that restricts some devices they can be played on. Also puts ads on some of them. I still may move them to Archive.org for that reason but for starters I'm putting them on YouTube because of their color enhancing features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBlock Posted March 6, 2017 Report Share Posted March 6, 2017 Wow, I didn't even remember that I had laid music on top of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg11 Posted March 6, 2017 Report Share Posted March 6, 2017 FYI...You can ship VCR tapes using media mail, it's super cheap. I just mailed 98 cassettes, 15 lbs for 10.00, it's like 2 bucks a lb for media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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