or blue ray? or to flash drive?


i've got old home movies i want to finally be able to see in HD.

[Edited on September 1, 2013 at 12:16 AM. Reason : ]

9/1/2013 12:15:58 AM

Sure you can digitize the analog media, but trying to make them HD quality makes about as much sense as this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhF_56SxrGk

9/1/2013 2:20:52 AM

bahaha thats golden

9/1/2013 2:30:03 AM

^^which is why i want to TAKE IT somewhere to get it done.

9/1/2013 8:24:02 AM

http://touch.groupon.com/deals/southtree-digital-media-58-raleigh-durham

9/1/2013 8:37:14 AM

^thank you! just what i was looking for. So i'm guessing it's better to take the VHS that we had converted in the 90's to have it converted than the original film? (i think it was 8mm film... doesn't have sound)... i would guess since vhs is more modern technology the quality would be better that way?

9/1/2013 11:49:52 AM

original analog film will be the best as it contains the most quality, but finding a telecine machine wont be easy or cheap. the vhs -> dvd will but, but its not going to look good. hell, no matter what it probably won't good since it was likely recorded on consumer gear from the 80s/90s

9/1/2013 12:30:22 PM

yeah thsi is stuff from the early 80's.

9/1/2013 1:14:55 PM

8mm (depending on type) should be higher resolution than VHS can achieve (480). I think if you do a high definition capture of 8mm film you can grab 700 horizontal lines. Smaller than 720 but much better then what the VHS would be.

9/5/2013 6:02:41 PM

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"^^which is why i want to TAKE IT somewhere to get it done. "

------------the point









---your head

then again this is an A thread, we can't expect a guy of his bent to understand why it's futile to try to increase the resolution of any recorded media

9/5/2013 7:54:43 PM

you are so fucking foggy in the head. BLU RAY IS BETTER QUALITY THAN VHS. what is so hard to understand about that?

9/6/2013 9:19:22 PM

Not sure if trolling or still doesn't get it....

9/6/2013 9:28:23 PM

lololololol @ this thread

9/6/2013 10:04:36 PM

Put them on hard drives instead. You can store a much higher video quality than bluray. I would go no lower than 4k, but 8k is your best bet. You want these to be future proof. Otherwise you'll just have to do this every ten years, and who wants that.

9/6/2013 10:14:58 PM

I would like to see Citizen Kane in HD as well... I have the VHS to make this happen

9/7/2013 4:24:55 PM

http://www.flickos.com/

9/7/2013 4:42:04 PM

Simplest way to put it:



There is no way to enhance the top picture (equivalent to VHS) to get the bottom picture (equivalent to DVD). Yes, you can copy the top image (video quality) to DVD or even Blu-ray but it will look identical to the top image. The only way to get the bottom image level of quality is to start with video of same level of quality. Hence the first youtube video being a joke about 'enhancing', you simply can't do it unless the original home videos were filmed in 'HD' back in the day.

[Edited on September 7, 2013 at 4:57 PM. Reason : /]

9/7/2013 4:51:52 PM

c'mon we all know there's technology out there to remove the black censor bars, why can't they transfer my home movies to HD blue ray goddamit

9/7/2013 6:16:55 PM

Just click the zoom button on your remote and it converts it to HD on the fly

9/7/2013 9:47:14 PM

^^^Annnnd almost everything was shot in "HD" back in the day.

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"I would like to see Citizen Kane in HD as well... I have the VHS to make this happen"

Buy the Bluray?

9/8/2013 7:21:48 PM

yeah right. how would they shoot in HD if the technology didn't even exist. Microsoft invented HD much later but was beat by Sony, duh.

9/8/2013 7:41:52 PM

I've got The Wizard of Oz on Bluray. Pretty sweet as well despite being 4:3.

9/8/2013 7:50:55 PM

me too, but I'm not a huge James Franco fan so I've only made it through the first half

9/8/2013 8:00:42 PM

I much prefer the bluray with Judy Garland.

9/8/2013 9:47:11 PM

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"Annnnd almost everything was shot in "HD" back in the day."

good point, old 35mm film has fucktons of resolution, and this is why remasters can be made

9/8/2013 10:45:49 PM

Exactly. Bluray is actually a downgrade in quality from 35mm. 35mm is closer to 4k than 1080p.

9/9/2013 10:28:35 AM

8k or you're just a bitch.

9/9/2013 6:06:45 PM

I'm pretty sure most people making home videos ITT were in the VHS age, not many people I know made home videos on 35mm.

9/9/2013 6:24:15 PM

^indeed, not all film is alike

9/9/2013 7:29:49 PM