[Hidden-tech] VHS Transfer options?

[Michael Lynch]

I had a negative experience with EverPresent.

They tried to bill me for products I never requested, and they tried to charge me a different amount than they quoted me. I had to dig up the email proving that they quoted me a different rate before they refunded the difference.

They were also storing customer data insecurely, making it possible to access all of their customers' captured videos and photos. To their credit, they took it seriously when I reported it to them and escalated it to the owner, but it took them six months to fix the issue, and they never notified their customers.

When I discovered the issue, I also requested that they delete all copies of my data, but they left my data online and exposed insecurely for several weeks until I asked them again to remove it.

But back to the topic of digitizing VHS tapes, I spent a long time on a digitizing project, and I wrote a guide explaining how I did it:

https://mtlynch.io/digitizing-1/

Thanks,
Michael Lynch

On Fri, Feb 4, 2022, at 11:18 AM, Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions & Folktography via Hidden-discuss wrote:
> I've had very good experiences with Boston based(?) Everpresent <https://everpresent.com/>
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> On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:13 AM fsaronson--- via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
>> I have a friend who has some particular needs in terms of transferring VHS to a digital format.  He’s transferred other tapes via commercial companies, but there are some sensitive issues with the current tapes that might require more specialized attention:____
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>>  * They don’t track properly in a VCR, so need someone with the tech to adjust for that____
>>  * They are quite dark, so need adjusting for that also, if possible.____
>>  * One tape may contain politically incorrect material (not blue, per se, but something that more modern sensibilities wouldn’t approve of.  But it’s a family tape, so they want to preserve them).____
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>> He’d like a local and/or small concern who may be able to assist.  Any suggestions?____
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>> Thanks in advance!____
>> Frank Aronson____
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