DrewNaylor , vor einem Monat

@foone The first Garfield live-action movie has a Pan and Scan option when you start it up on at least one DVD release, I know for a fact since that's the one I have.

damieng , vor einem Monat

@foone A bunch of my earliest DVDs have widescreen on one side and pan & scan on the other.

jope , vor einem Monat

@foone lots of turn of the millennium r2 releases were pan&scan for some reason. We had to get unlocked players and buy r1 releases online as a result. :-)

grumpy , vor einem Monat

@foone I'm looking to start digitizing my VHS collection. Do you have recommendations for tooling/output formats for archival storage?

foone OP , vor einem Monat

@grumpy not really. But I will say that using an RCA->HDMI adapter and USB3 HDMI capture seems to be a lot easier to set up (compared to just getting a composite capture device) and has equivalent quality

ryanfb , vor einem Monat

@grumpy @foone VHS-Decode (forked from Laserdisc Domesday) looks pretty interesting from an archival perspective, not least being you can store the raw drum head signal and reprocess it https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode

foone OP , vor einem Monat

@ryanfb @grumpy I've been intimidated out of using this project given how many RF capture points you need to have to do it comprehensibly. VHS is annoyingly complex compared to laserdiscs

SPAM , vor einem Monat

@foone out of curiosity, why do you specifically want pan & scan?

I think it's interesting sometimes to see the edit choices made to those films to make it work in pan & scan, but otherwise isn't a great experience.

foone OP , vor einem Monat

@SPAM I'm setting up an internal TV network and it's gotta be all 4:3.

artandtechnic , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

@foone It definitely has become very, very hard in the last 2 years.

One of the 2 places that I could still reliably get commercial VHS tapes from, one liquidated all their tapes in Jan/Feb. 2023. The other place, which I’m way overdue on a return visit to, did have a large box ‘in the back’ full of them… but I’m not sure if even they still have them, now that a year+ has gone by.

Let us know if you have a want list. I digitized several P&S tapes for CC research, which I don’t need anymore.

patrickcentral , vor einem Monat

@foone I find eBay DVDs labeled “rental” have a much higher chance of being pan and scan

jpm , vor einem Monat

@foone notably The Simpsons Movie had a 4:3 DVD release alongside the widescreen DVD release. You had to be careful which one you bought…