I have been made aware of a collection of about 2,000 VHS tapes in London, meticulous recordings of television from 1997-2006, and that person has died; a neighbor has until Friday and then into the trash DM me, looking for someone to store them while we find a local digitizer.
UPDATE: I have found someone to store the tapes, so we'll have them out of the house this week. Next is to talk with all the potential digitizers in London, or talk about sending it to the US.
@textfiles @VinylCarBooty Paging @whatsonthetapes
@textfiles We have @Inafr_officiel in France, maybe something similar in UK ? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_…
@textfiles Transdiffusion.org are having difficulty finding volunteers for 3000 VHS tapes from the 1978-93 period so we sympathise. There’s suddenly a lot coming to light. (though we recorded ours ourselves at the time)
@textfiles Just under a cubic meter of tapes. That's still a lot of tape, but it's actually smaller than I thought from 2k tapes. (Assuming they are in no cases or cardboard sleeves -- something that only adds negligibly to the size.)
