Good day, all - THIS IS MY FIRST POST - need direction to proper forum :-)

[Cornucopia]

Also,not sure why the OP needs to have those detailed recommendations reiterated yet again when this forum is rife with longstanding recommendations, with overall fairly good consensus.


Scott

[lordsmurf]

Also,not sure why the OP needs to have those detailed recommendations reiterated yet again when this forum is rife with longstanding recommendations, with overall fairly good consensus.
Scott

Lack of reading. But due to volume of info, maybe missed, not intentional or due to laziness.
I'm generally more lenient with something like this, depends on situation.

[lingyi]

I vote for denial and creator's remorse. The OP completely ignored the majority of posts offering advice and correcting his statements.

Only when faced with the reality that his: "Here is what I think is the VERY BEST way to digitize old 8mm, Hi-8, VCR/VHS ANALOG tapes to a digital file on a PC hard drive." was in fact not the best did he counter asking me for an alternative method that is no longer available to him as he's tossed the tapes.

We've been down this road many times before and unfortunately will go down it many more. I'll try my best to refrain from additional walls of text and just point to this thread. Which I why I decided to put it all down in one place.

[DB83]

I am gonna add just one observation/comment to this.


The OP has somewhat come to his senses and is not going to attempt to put this archive online.


The 'Master Plan' is now to give each family member a nice new 8tb external HDD stuffed with content.


My Q. to anyone who cares to read and respond. What would your initial reaction be to this gift ?. I know what mine would be. And the answer has the letters F,A and T in it.

[lingyi]

Children - Thanks Dad. Now what am I supposed to do with this? *Closet* Oh you're coming over? Quick, find that drive and hook it up, Dad's coming!

Grandchildren - Thanks Grandpa. Woot! An 8TB drive to save MY stuff on! *Format*

Great Grandchildren - Thanks whoever you are? 8TB? That's the size of one game!

That said. +1 to the OP for doing the right thing and distributing the backups.

[lingyi]

Great Great Grandchildren - What's a hard drive and why is it so big? Oooooo...what's that sound? *Shakes the drive* Ooooo...it feels funny when you move it around in your hand!

Great Great Great Grandchildren - Why does it have two tails (power and USB cord)? Ohhhh...Grandpa is this a mouse from the 2020's????