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!

@realryleu

Жыл бұрын

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.

@SonGoku-mj5pq

Жыл бұрын

i love that linus is a fan too!

@sokrates297

Жыл бұрын

Latent heat...

@davidbetancourt4028

Жыл бұрын

Loved that shoutout and to see you here. Great channel!

@HiveMind1182

Жыл бұрын

EV colab??? 😂

the irony of the tape saying "never forget us" and linus saying "i have no recollection of any of this"

@Trillyana

Жыл бұрын

Well of course Linus doesn't remember it, he wasn't there, that was Barney

@C.r.i.m.s.o.n

Жыл бұрын

@@Trillyana 😂😂😂

@MrChanw11

Жыл бұрын

@@Trillyana sleeper agent linus. Wonder what his trigger word is...

@mrbanana6464

Жыл бұрын

@@MrChanw11 probably something in French

@Harugloryrave123

Жыл бұрын

@@mrbanana6464 omelette au fromage

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.

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.

@brokenhero6828

Жыл бұрын

Hello Kyle, for an easier way to do this, what should I do? Should I just buy an legato?

@slinnky

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@mikohughes7802

Жыл бұрын

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?

@MrMargaretScratcher

Жыл бұрын

@@brokenhero6828 I went the similar route as on the technology connections video, used an upscaler but then into a USB hdmi capture card.

@MrMega200

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

Seeing Linus's soul leave his body when they all start singing is the best

@TheGamersRace

Жыл бұрын

Id give you a like, but you're at exactly 420. I can't bring myself to do it.

@whizadree

Жыл бұрын

He had a soul?

@bigd1348

Жыл бұрын

Brings me back you should do a video on laser disc players

@trickvro

Жыл бұрын

MDR

@trainzguy2472

Жыл бұрын

LinusCringeTips

How did 17 year old Linus have a deeper voice than current Linus?

@dxrrk

Жыл бұрын

well, your voice seems to get real deep in teenage years, then go a little higher as you get older. humans are strange lol

@zdanee

Жыл бұрын

Because he spoke French!

@broklond

Жыл бұрын

probably just recording quality

@arkhikun

Жыл бұрын

vascectomy

@Leukick

Жыл бұрын

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

how does 17 year old linus have a deeper voice than 35 yo linus lmao.

@radornkeldam

Жыл бұрын

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...

@tomascernak6112

Жыл бұрын

Yvonne castrated him long time ago ;-)

@weatherphobia

Жыл бұрын

@@tomascernak6112 Doubtful since he has 2 kids.....unless they have another father? Oh NOSE!

@rmod8

Жыл бұрын

its also the youtube voice. look at youtubers over the years and their voices change due to the constant voices

@louistournas120

Жыл бұрын

@@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 young linus speak very coherent french and current Linus barely understand anything he said is glorious

@Blueyzachary

Жыл бұрын

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.

@AHHHHHHHHHHHHl

Ай бұрын

Not related to language. But my handwriting skills as an adult are horrid compared to my skills as a teen.

A friendly well known reminder: Any time Linus is uncomfortable or in pain... It's great content!

@ryanj610

Жыл бұрын

Thank god he's an (was) awkward (is) klutz, hah.

@autobahn4610

Жыл бұрын

🤣

@eduardofernandez4011

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, bring more pain to Linus, we need that content!

@Hubris2

Жыл бұрын

Remember - this was only 2 of the tapes he found up there - there are also more. Follow-up episode!

@SelecaoOfMidas

Жыл бұрын

Well... Cringe is universal

It makes me so happy that Linus also loves Technology Connections

@bijeshshrestha2450

Жыл бұрын

can't digitalize analogue tapes without making a technology connection

@tamegaming1768

Жыл бұрын

I came down to comment these literal exact words and here you are with top comment. So true tho

@bargiona

Жыл бұрын

Where else I could watch an hour long video on water heating solutions. And then a sequel. I love it.

@PabloEdvardo

Жыл бұрын

I was so happy when I heard them shout it out

@mcintosh.motors

Жыл бұрын

Been binging his videos recently, sometimes at 1.5x speed lol but they’re soo good

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!

@serraramayfield9230

Жыл бұрын

was his French good?

So I take it that Mark is LTT's resident "old person"?

@itsmejak7888

Жыл бұрын

him and Anthony

@TheSaxAppeal

Жыл бұрын

@@itsmejak7888 anthony reminds me of my retired boss lol

@jothain

Жыл бұрын

@@itsmejak7888 Anthony? Old? He's young guy 😀

As a native french speaker, seeing Linus speak french and watch him dab into Québec culture was quite a sight ahaha loved it!

@RBeeMedia

Жыл бұрын

Him singing "Ce n'est pas fini, ce n'est qu'en début" was the cherry on top lol

@tomasdeschuyteneer9182

Жыл бұрын

@@RBeeMedia according to his french it is long gone

@Technet0

Жыл бұрын

as someone who has been learning french for 3 years its actually not bad

@tomasdeschuyteneer9182

Жыл бұрын

@@Technet0 i had french classes from age 10 to 18 , i gues it depends how long linus had lessons

@philippethiffeault192

Жыл бұрын

C’est surprenant de le voir parler français!

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!

@jzen1455

Жыл бұрын

I always had a feeling Linus was a thespian.

@remcool1258

Жыл бұрын

Really love when Linus speak french

@h9peless

Жыл бұрын

Wym everyone knows LTT crew is Canadian.

I love how a Canadian Tech Channel uses an old Czech TV show (that I remember from my childhood) as B-roll

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

@jasondrummond9451

Жыл бұрын

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.

I laughed hard on Mark "local data hoarder"

@JAK_EDITS.

Жыл бұрын

💀💀💀💀

@Tyranzor64

Жыл бұрын

As if anyone ACTUALLY competes with Linus on data hoarding

@justsomeguy5470

Жыл бұрын

@@Tyranzor64 The NSA would like to have a word with you

@TheUltimateYouTuberyay

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Ra-Hul-K

Жыл бұрын

Data Hoarder - imagine putting that on a resume 🤣

As someone that speaks native level French, 17yo Linus speaking and interacting with a bunch of Quebec people is so cute, love it!!

@graysonlackey1259

Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see them cover the different ways technology can be used to help learn a new language.

@calvinmills4069

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Nebnub

Жыл бұрын

How do you know he's 17?

@seanathan14

Жыл бұрын

@@Nebnub he was born in 1986 and the video was from 2003 2003 - 1986 = 17 he was 17 years old in 2003

@Dave102693

Жыл бұрын

@@seanathan14 damn…he’s 7 years older than me! Lol

I'm so happy you guys shouted out Technology Connections. Such a great channel. Literally the kind of thing KZread was made for.

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

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

@Mark6O9

Жыл бұрын

Oh hi Neo

@jyuza67

Жыл бұрын

De ouf, c'était très étrange lol

@tortillas5

Жыл бұрын

Tellement xD

@dudewana5732

Жыл бұрын

C'était drôle il est bon en francais!

@Firedoo06

Жыл бұрын

Bisous de france Linus !

as someone from quebec seeing linus trying to speak French is amazing

@chenulthenuwara

Жыл бұрын

😅

@xvilleneuve

Жыл бұрын

Same, I also worked at the same summer camp a few years later, I probably had bosses who worked directly with him haha

@NicolasChapadosGirard

Жыл бұрын

Honestly he was good, I wondered why he's French was so good, now we know.

@MarcusH...

Жыл бұрын

@@NicolasChapadosGirard his

@fastandadrift4858

Жыл бұрын

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

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.

@krane15

Жыл бұрын

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.

Wutf? How did you get your hands on the Czech version of Who wants to be a millionaire on VHS? I'm stunned. 😄

@electrix4677

Жыл бұрын

Přesne taky to nechapu

@matyas2828

Жыл бұрын

@@electrix4677 Je to video na KZread, uvádí tam i název. Není to jeho nahrávka z té kazety. :)

@matyas2828

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/poF1l8OBj9LScbQ.html&ab_channel=hesl Tohle je to originální video.

Never, have I ever seen Linus this awkward! This is actually quite sweet! Putting yourself out there like this is pretty huge!

@dh2032

Жыл бұрын

trying his be to make is older audience feel even older 💀💀

@todorkatsarski7487

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

@CopyMain

Жыл бұрын

"I got you" litterly

@himsin4501

Жыл бұрын

@@CopyMain Where's Paste tho?

@KartoonPerson

Жыл бұрын

How does Linus know

@EnimVinco

Жыл бұрын

i started doing this a few days ago. insane that this video pops up

@MrPruske

Жыл бұрын

Yesterday my father tried to give me some VHS tapes to take but I did not have space on my motorcycle

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. :)

@krane15

Жыл бұрын

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!

Linus cringing at himself is so funny and absolutely relateable

@informitas0117

Жыл бұрын

That's how you know you have grown as a person

@himaro101

Жыл бұрын

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.

@The_Black_Hole

Жыл бұрын

15:43 That's Pain Harold hahaha

I suddenly have an urge to see Linus speak French and do a whole video in French.

@customvrocker

Жыл бұрын

2nd that!

@Sille_Utoka

Жыл бұрын

+1

@decomix7526

Жыл бұрын

There is 18 seconds of him speaking French in "Driving a MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR Autonomous Car!" video.

@TravisFabel

Жыл бұрын

si!

@ardencassie5150

Жыл бұрын

LTT français! Très bien!

I really didn't expect to see linus sing early 2000's Star Academy songs, my life is complete.

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.

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

@levappavellevappavel

Жыл бұрын

The same

@enderinglewood

Жыл бұрын

I am more curious where they dug it up.

@janslavik5284

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I was like "that guy looks oddly familiar" and then out of nowhere "modřánky" 😂

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

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

Linus , je suis impressionnée par ton Français même après 20ans ! Even your french from back in the days was very good ! It's wholesome ❤️

I love that Linus Media has an expert for every single facet of technology. VCRs and tapes, old game systems, emulation, etc.

@MR-vj8dn

Жыл бұрын

The ones you mention are related to one each other.

@jackpowell9276

Жыл бұрын

I'd say, old stuff, new stuff, camera stuff, server stuff, electrical stuff, circuit stuff, editing stuff, manufacturing stuff etc.

@PeetHobby

Жыл бұрын

Yup they are bunch of "experts". 😂

@elektrokinesis4150

Жыл бұрын

This guy is no expert

@aronseptianto8142

Жыл бұрын

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

Finding out Linus was a french camp counselor is my favourite thing of today

@AlexDeg92

Жыл бұрын

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

If anyone wants to know what he song sung at 18:14 is, it's Quand tout sera fini(When It's All Over) by Annie Villeneuve

This is so goodamn wholesome. I love how sentimental this video feels, technology and LTT-ness aside

Mark has that cool and calm dad vibe. I like him.

@michaeltagor4238

Жыл бұрын

yup exactly what I'm thinking

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

@Sir.Craze-

Жыл бұрын

I mean... I'll take the simpler route of saying: As someone who was a kid; I can confirm xD

this was honestly a treat. not just linus embarrassing himself but the nostalgia. I remember rewinding tapes. good times

Tape: "Don't forget about us" Linus: "I don't remember any of this"

As a frenchman, hearing young Linus speak french is the funniest thing I've heard today

@ME-yr1gn

Жыл бұрын

Honestly I closed my eyes tested my French, then rewinded, let’s just say my French teacher would be disappointed

@sticktoyourmusic

Жыл бұрын

Assez drôle oui 😂 Linus au Qc qui s’fait forcé à parler francais 😂

@HappyDude1

Жыл бұрын

It sounded very weird right ? I could not understand it

@ME-yr1gn

Жыл бұрын

@@HappyDude1 honestly French is more of a back of the tongue gravely langue. Linus was like the direct opposite

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.

@TAP7a

Жыл бұрын

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!

@GlorifiedGremlin

Жыл бұрын

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

Sometimes I forget that LTT is Canadian and now matter how common it may be, it always surprises me whenever I meet people who are native in English speak French.

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.

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.

@xpander301

Жыл бұрын

En effet, pas si mal ;)

@loiclegarrec4426

Жыл бұрын

If you do t mind the « en francaisness »

@TheRealPhoenix_Retromods

Жыл бұрын

@@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. ^^

@TheRealPhoenix_Retromods

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@AndrewRyan11

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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.

@PrograError

Жыл бұрын

ah... the "unmarked" folder of modern times...

@tvthecat

Жыл бұрын

@@PrograError Nah, they're the "homework" folders.

@Smitty_Werbenjagermanjenson

Жыл бұрын

You mean the pron folder?

@Doctor677productions

Жыл бұрын

lol this is a golden comment

@halosrusty

Жыл бұрын

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 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

@DoubleMonoLR

Жыл бұрын

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.

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!

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

@jeuonly3474

Жыл бұрын

c'est vrai

@agentoine

Жыл бұрын

Oui c'est vrai

@OzenRay

Жыл бұрын

Totalement vrais

@CRneu

Жыл бұрын

@@timotheeb3981 quebec french is horrible. the way quebec folks pronounce oui is hilarious.

@smoguli

Жыл бұрын

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.

@lucasrem

Жыл бұрын

parle anglish ?, Le Star Académie, les Françoise

@ChezRG-YT

Жыл бұрын

Yes

6:25 I hear there's a great VCR Repair shop in Milwaukee. They're lightning fast!

I actually do vintage electronics repairs; a lady who had to be at least 78 came in and asked us to transfer about 800 Mini-8 tapes to digital files for her. Had to refurbish a tape player, find a Mini8 carriage, and get tuner card to capture them. Wild adventure

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!

@furonwarrior

Жыл бұрын

JoeProPhotos

@mr-data

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss

@bobhanson1037

Жыл бұрын

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.

@TazerXI

Жыл бұрын

I am sorry for your loss, and I do hope that you are able to retrieve those memories so he can live on.

@JesseGaming7593

Жыл бұрын

My condolences

I appreciate that Linus put his childhood memories on internet. And also reminding people to backup there backups. Cause memory are precious...

omg what an awesome episode, the tec and the vibes just great

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.

@krane15

Жыл бұрын

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.

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.

@jayaskme2942

Жыл бұрын

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.

@andidrew

Жыл бұрын

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 ❤️

A LTT / Technology Connection collab is something I'm surprised hasn't happened already.

@mr.m_servas

Жыл бұрын

Yes yes I need this

As a québécois , i find it delicious to listen too , realy happy you liked your experience into the French realm of Canada ❤

@Domspun

Жыл бұрын

It's the best Canada!

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.

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.

@babagandu

Жыл бұрын

Ha saheb when coming back home to Pakistan ?

@brendonjones290

Жыл бұрын

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.

Came for VHS tech insights, stayed for Linus singing performance 😂👏🏾

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

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

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!) 🇨🇦

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

@babagandu

Жыл бұрын

How is Great Czechia ? How can I come ?

@hydrogenbond7303

Жыл бұрын

koukám nejsem sám koho to pobavilo :D

@niichimera1344

Жыл бұрын

Chcete být milonářem? V *mém* LTT videu!?

@2kitter

Жыл бұрын

"Aha, nojo, on je Milionář asi i v Kanadě. Počkat, logo Nova? Počkat, Vladimír Čech?! Počkat :-D"

10:56 "Oh my God there were so many commercials" ... some things don't change, Linus.

yes! thank you so much ive been tryin to get into this to archive our family memories thanks LMG

Every one of the LTT staff when on screen is a natural. Mark is just the latest addition to the cast. 👍

@Devastator0

Жыл бұрын

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.

@chrishahn3834

Жыл бұрын

Linus is very good at making people feel comfortable too. His goofiness puts people at ease.

@mikefung9145

Жыл бұрын

Edzel is not

@CntFndAName

Жыл бұрын

They do screening tests, sometimes you see someone for only a single video

Watching you trying to speak french after all those years, was super funny

@Dark.Pri77

Жыл бұрын

Is he a Quebecer?

@Ash_Lawless

Жыл бұрын

@@Dark.Pri77 not only quebec speaks french in canada, not all french speakers live in/come from quebec, just the majority.

@phuzz00

Жыл бұрын

@@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...

In the UK we often had cue dots in the corner of the screen before an ad break. It was for national tv to tell the local broadcasters when to trigger the ad break but it could be used by a VCR to pause during recording. However there was no cue to start it again so not greatly useful.

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.

this hits me in the nostalgia feels 1000% as a child of a VHS rental store owner. Love it.

@xdizzle0460

Жыл бұрын

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.

@ManOfAttitudeLP1998

Жыл бұрын

@@xdizzle0460 Those VCR/CRT Combos were nice

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.

@DrLoveQc

Жыл бұрын

yep and star academie was "star academy" in France like if the show was coming from US, because they love America.

@ItsEban

Жыл бұрын

@@DrLoveQc ahh yes true! Thought it was written in proper french.

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.

Haha Linus was always a born entertainer, he just gets better at it. Love this whole video!

There's something about knowing that Linus and Mark loving the Technology Connections channel that makes me happy. Alec puts in some major research about all kinds of things and puts out consistantly thorough videos. (Go watch his video on the toaster, its fantastic)

@chasegeis8796

Жыл бұрын

I am a lover of his videos on the Dishwasher and extension cords. Great channel

@mrt88music

Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing the thumbnail for the toaster video and being like why would I watch that? And then 5 hours later being really interested in the rice cooker. Technology connections is just amazing

@Novashadow115

Жыл бұрын

Alec is amazing, props to him for being known lol

@PanduPoluan

Жыл бұрын

@@mrt88music I know, right! TC just the bee's knees presenting something that might look simple but is not.

@juliaz12345

Жыл бұрын

His videos about lamps are great! I just love how thorough his videos are.

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.

@alextirrellRI

Жыл бұрын

Just be aware that disc rot is a real problem now too. Better rip those discs before you can't!

@pietrmuffei8874

Жыл бұрын

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

@MrThomashorst

Жыл бұрын

@@pietrmuffei8874 nope, there services all around the globe. just have transfered mine two weeks ago.

@Allexz

Жыл бұрын

Have you backed the disks up as well? :)

@logannewman4532

Жыл бұрын

@@Allexz Definitely.

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.

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

@himenaaa3565

Жыл бұрын

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,

@Moshington

Жыл бұрын

he was a pyro

The fact that I even remember using VHS makes me realize how old I’m getting.

@a.m.653

Жыл бұрын

22y old here, I also remember it.

@Peretosh

Жыл бұрын

i still got planty of vhs movies and 4 vhs players i am 31 right now

@justryan5697

Жыл бұрын

I'm only 21 and grew up mostly using vhs... although any new movies we bought were DVD

@Cocytus

Жыл бұрын

honestly, they went obsolete in the 90s. Not that long ago.

@loveaintfree1409

Жыл бұрын

@@Cocytus no I still used VHS in early 2000s even though DVD player was the next new thing.

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.

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.

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.

@ApofKol

Жыл бұрын

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

Oh my god I love this!! Seeing young Linus oh VHS is the blast from the past I didn’t know I needed 😅

@PrograError

Жыл бұрын

and getting to see him crinched hard

Not only do I have a VHS player/recorder sitting over next to my TV....it has a built-in DVD burner!! Simple is bippity boppity boop!! You have a DVD, and that's much easier to get on your computer....

This has been one of your best videos in a long while. If I could give it 1000 likes I would. Excellent work LMG

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

8:13 Linus giving a shoutout to Technology Connections was great, I love that channel too

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.

@DoubleMonoLR

Жыл бұрын

Indeed, though the longevity of burned DVDs seems to often be poor at best.

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...

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.

Linus's face when he is watching the 17 yr old self singing/dancing...so relatable. Watching yourself from way back on film is so cringe.😂

@DoubleMonoLR

Жыл бұрын

Tape, not film. Film would generally be early 80s at the latest.

I have a VCR, and VHS movies, and a DVD player, and DVD movies as well. I got my VCR at the thrift store, and have never had any problems with it. It still works right now today. When your recording a movie it is better to choose the 2 hour mode, because it will be a better quality.

another option for the capture device is a FireWire equipped Digital8 camcorder. they will copy the Digital8 tapes, but also play and digitize Hi8 tapes and (for some models) analog s-video input and stream it over DV to a FireWire card in your computer (FireWire cards are still made and super cheap). the DV stream is pretty good quality, but super inefficient (like 50 gigs for an analog Hi8 tape). The nicer camcorders even have a basic TBC built in. do your research first though, not all models are equal, but they are almost all in the Sony Handycam lineup.