Terrible isn’t it.

Unbelievable isn’t it! I spoke to the CEO of Kodak at CES in 2010. Big booth peddling cheap Jack plastic China printers, cameras, just tack shyte and I told him what I do and how 90% of what I digitize is Kodak product and how given kodaks decline and scouring for new, pointless revenue streams, take a look over their shoulder and see the trillions of pieces of media they’ve helped create and put the car in reverse and vacuum up cash, all they need to do is look at their books from the last 100 years and do the math. He brushed me off and I watched that idiot walk away and the obvious happened. Bankrupt.

But Kodak does have good photo film other than that there crap

Kodak stopped being a reputable company back in the 1990s.

@@vwgirl I used kodachrome slide film right up until they quit processing it in 2010. Never had an issue with it. Was a great product.

@@video99couk It's holds the tape together enough for the one time transfer and the results came out crystal clear. And ofc, there are different ways i.e using scotch tape or splicing tape and honestly if were using the tape contantly then splicing tape is the way to go.

Destroying memories! It is disgusting!!

Bingo! They all really do think it’s some form of Zip drive drag and drop scenario and it’s all perfect bc some magic company made a magic machine.

I saw a news clip on them. I just don’t get heartless owners. Special place for them 🔥

Wow! I have yet to hear about this. It is so sad that this is not all that uncommon.

Haha!! Hey mate! 100% true! Cheers!

The Panasonic W-1 and W3 can also do that playback and conversion (if it is wanted) the W-1 is better built but if its deck develops issues they are a royal pain to fix.

@@mspysu79 Thanks for the heads up regarding the W1 as I currently own one.

I have a panasonic multi system vcr and a sony multi system vcr to the sony is unusual it has an av output in the front and its also labeled a karaoke player. @@gotmemories I feel for you to saying g about tapes being thrown away. Ive saveed computers for friends and family when apple said no no we can't fix that.

Thanks to the mixcam app crashing…damn thing! I just upload, screw it! Message came across for the most part.

@@gotmemories Yeah it did, I almost thought it was deliberate. Either way I appreciate the information.

@@gotmemories The creators of Mixcam should fix their app so your videos won't cut off halfway.

Amen!

All of what you said, 100%. It’s beyond any understanding of mine.

I suspect that Legacybox allocate most of their money to their marketing department and their likely greedy board of directors.

Indeed they do! Classic case of greed.

@strothelmkez1472 I’m based in Phoenix, not England. 6024384381

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Good luck!

It’s unethical and grotesque business practices.

Very true! They’ve brought down the industry for sure!

100% agree! Thanks for the comment and keep up the good work!

Hey Brandon! I’ll be getting them done for Friday!

Great! Keep up the good work!

Amen to your amens! It’s so bad. Thanks for the support and comment!

Great! Plenty of dog chewed tapes under. my belt too!

From what I have been told by current & former employees there, they have quotas to meet, if they don’t see an image or there is a problem, they are told to pull it, put a sticker on it and move on to the next and that tape counts towards their quota. So basically this surmounts to management encouraging employees to spend any time fixing anything.

It's very easy to spot a PAL tape being played in an NTSC machine. It's a very distincive effect which they should recognise. Presumably they state somewhere in their terms that they are only able to transfer NTSC tapes. LegacyBox don't operate here in the UK, thank goodness, and I'm not sure we really have anything equivalent. Most PAL VHS machines made after around 1990 (apart from really low-end models) can play NTSC tapes, so this is less of a problem here.

Not really. I do scan photos depending on the quantities and conditions. Honestly a good epson batch scanner, few hundred bucks will do the trick, a lot easier than video.

That yes. Main culprit, shareholders. It’s greed. These employees are under the gun with quotas. They have to transfer so many tapes per day or else they get in trouble. They’re told if it doesn’t play correct or at all in a few seconds to pull it and put a sticker on it. I have employees at all these places reaching out to me giving me the dirt. It’s insane the stuff I hear. Horrible work environment.

Bravo!

@@gotmemories THANK YOU !!

Great! Thanks for the comment, all the best!

I would suggest getting them into cloud storage also. Before I started my business I saved everything off a IMac that was going bad. 5 years later I plugged it in and it was smoking. List everything.

@@johndoherty503 I have terabytes of videos. To have it all on cloud storage would cost a fair bit. I have two external hard drives, one stored offsite in case of a fire. The edited videos are getting stored on DVDs as well. Plus, I will always keep the original tapes.

@@my3dviews Good to hear you are protecting your memories. I have switched to SSD drives so I do not have mechanical failures again.

@@johndoherty503 SSDs don't have mechanical failures but they most certainly do have failures. They have their advantages and disadvantages. Here's a quote from a site that compared both types: While SSDs may fail with less frequency than HDDs, they do have a higher error rate that can affect the end-user experience. For example, so-called uncorrectable errors are relatively common in SSDs. Research shows that over 20% of SSDs develop uncorrectable errors over a four-year period, and 30% to 80% develop bad blocks. All of these errors can affect data retention and lead to effective failure. End of quote. I did switch my computer to SSD drives to speed up editing and other processes, but I still have regular hard drives for long term storage. Those drives are less likely to fail due to mechanical problems since they aren't used except when transferring files for storage or retrieval. Best is to have multiple types of storage. Mine are stored on the computer itself (with SSD), on external hard drives and eventually with DVDs for the edited videos. All methods can fail over time, so having several is good. You can even transfer your data to never better drives after a few years when prices come down. As always seems to be the case with data storage. I've recently checked some of my DVDs from about 15 years ago, and they still work perfectly. I may even transfer files to blu-ray discs for storage as another form of backup. Sorry for the long reply. 😄

I don’t do audio, too much hassle.

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Thanks for the comment!