Every Christmas time, there’s a different theme in the house, but always, the attic and getting down all the decorations throws up some surprises.
This year the surprises are all my old albums that have been up there for years and the boxes of old vhs tapes.
I bought a couple of cheap adapters that would convert vhs to hdmi so I could record them into a digital file.
It works ok, sound from an old video works ok.
I found an old vhs that had stored on it, some of my brothers old vhsc tape recordings from donkey’s years back.
Was good to see some faces no longer with us, all of us in happier times. I recorded it over to digital and posted a youtube link to the family, I think they liked it.
Then I found an old box, which I thought had vhs tapes in it, it doesn’t, it has an old panasonic camera, along with all the leads and three tapes, one in the camera, one in a box and a brand new one.
I wired it all up and hey presto… it played via the pc, first time.
Looking through the tapes that were open, it was soon apparent that a grandad or nan had filmed their grandson years back, at his school sports day, his Christmas party and in their flat.
I bought the camera for nothing, years back, from a local carboot sale to me.
The only identifying thing in the box is a copy of the newspaper from the Wirral, back in 2011.
I do not know how it came to be on sale at a carboot over 100 miles away?
I certainly don’t know who the people are, but what a sad state of affairs when they haven’t even bothered to save the tapes of their own family.
I may use the camera for some retro video filming, as I know I can save the filming as an mpeg4 digital file and edit from it. It will be good for a laugh.