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Jen is loading DVD’s into a donation box. Admiral: Stop!! You can’t get rid of our DVD’s! What if the streaming sites go down?! - Admiral: What’ll we watch if there’s an apocalypse? The NEWS?! Jen: You’re right! DVD’s are essential for survival! - Admiral: We still have a DVD player, right? Jen: I mean… probably
VHS, like video casettes? You might have forgotten about ghosting due to overwriting from adjacent layers.
Decreased video quality is an improvement over the nothing at all that one gets from failed optical media though.
I do have a ripper device - wanting to get into archiving rare media but Windows 11 in all of its glory has decided that it doesn’t trust me enough to let me choose to install third party drivers 🙄
The ideal is a mix - but also, as a certified broke bitch I’ll take a 49 tape with ghosting issues over a $3.09 shiny thing that isn’t even a good paperweight if it’s dead.
Try Linux then? Setup is a bit of work but i got it running for makemkv and Handbrake.