Rip my VHS tapes, or download? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So I own over 500 vhs tapes. And dvds, but those are easy to rip. I am trying to archive all my tapes before they go bad. However, that takes a lot of time. Should I just try to find all the movies I can for tapes I own?

I've been out of the game for a few years now. How vast are the resources for 90s movies and such ?

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[-] b_tr3e@feddit.org 4 points 10 months ago

Years ago, I ripped parts of my relatively small VHS collection - at least the part that wasn't copied over and over. The low output quality and slowliness of the process finally got me to abandon the idea. I ripped maybe a dozen movies or less and none of these still are in my collection. All of them replaced by way better copies. OTOH video codecs were not what they are today and a recent VHS rip might look a lot better at smaller file sizes. Idk about audio quality but mine was abyssmal; absolutely no competition to DVD audio.