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Originally Posted by WCV82
Are you going to post your transfers to Archive.org when you are done? I suggest doing that in case there is anything that is under copyright, though commercials seem to be put up on Youtube with no problems.
You probably would have the first Quasar transferred tape on Archive at any rate!
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Wouldn't that be something? I will probably digitize this tape at least (I have one of those USB video capture units). As for the other tapes, there isn't a whole lot worth preserving. My dad recorded a lot of BW movies off TV and some color ones, again the quality is lacking on most of them, and there's no rare or unseen content on these versions as far as I know. It seems these were taped from 1983-1986 range.
Anyone from the Chicago area in the early 80's might know of the ON Network, which is the source of most of these recordings my dad taped. He also has the first TV airing of Empire Strikes Back that ON showed in 1985.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONTV_(pay_TV)
In 1982, ONTV executives convinced George Lucas to sell the rights for the very first television broadcast of the first Star Wars film to the service. The rights to broadcast Star Wars were obtained by ONTV for a one-time pay-per-view showing in September of that year, available for a one-time fee of $7 to $8[1] (Lucas would do the same favor for the Los Angeles-based Z Channel by granting that service the rights to air The Empire Strikes Back in January 1985).
TV_NUT, the discrepancy between Monitor color sync and playback color sync is still off, and I'm not quite sure why or how that's happening. But honestly, my main goal when setting off to fix this thing was to get the tapes to play back in full color which they do. I don't anticipate recording anything new on these tapes, and I question how good they will look anyways considering the current condition of the magnetic tape.
