Help Me Entertain You...

[Scooch]

Techies, I summon you...

My father-in-law, who passed away a number of years ago, was a serial VCR recorder (in addition to being an awesome guy). He also became an SU football season ticket holder as soon as his daughter enrolled in 1992. Unlike myself he mastered the art of setting his VCR timer to record games while he was at the Dome.

My wife and I have hundreds of his old VHS tapes (he once owned a video store -- for those under 25, that was a place where we used to go to borrow physical copies of popular motion pictures for a fee) and I realized last night that I have about a dozen SU games from the early/mid 90s that he taped.

I watched SU-Texas from 1992 (so awesome!) and SU-Miami from 1994 (sigh). And it got me to wondering how easy/cheap it is to digitize those recordings and post them to YouTube. I figure you fellow lunatics would enjoy seeing these games, and SU has an appalling lack of content online from that era.

So, any advice?

 

[KaiserUEO]

we got a board full of guys walking around in tin foil hats, watching games off a hotwired 1972 toaster, hooked up with string, coat hangers and a few old soup cans so they can watch for free.

that to me amazing, so will somebody out there help this man simply scan his vcr tapes to dvd??

 

[Scooch]

we got a board full of guys walking around in tin foil hats, watching games off a hotwired 1972 toaster, hooked up with string, coat hangers and a few old soup cans so they can watch for free.

that to me amazing, so will somebody out there help this man simply scan his vcr tapes to dvd??

I actually know how to do that. I need to get them from VCR to YouTube. Which may take NASA involvement.

 

[KaiserUEO]

I actually know how to do that. I need to get them from VCR to YouTube. Which may take NASA involvement.

should i have said...scan his vcr tapes to the internet without actually having...and certainly not paying for...internet access??

to attract their attention??

 

[Toga]

This guy might know.

 

[Scooch]

should i have said...scan his vcr tapes to the internet without actually having...and certainly not paying for...internet access??

to attract their attention??

Probably.

 

[Millhouse]

Techies, I summon you...

My father-in-law, who passed away a number of years ago, was a serial VCR recorder (in addition to being an awesome guy). He also became an SU football season ticket holder as soon as his daughter enrolled in 1992. Unlike myself he mastered the art of setting his VCR timer to record games while he was at the Dome.

My wife and I have hundreds of his old VHS tapes (he once owned a video store -- for those under 25, that was a place where we used to go to borrow physical copies of popular motion pictures for a fee) and I realized last night that I have about a dozen SU games from the early/mid 90s that he taped.

I watched SU-Texas from 1992 (so awesome!) and SU-Miami from 1994 (sigh). And it got me to wondering how easy/cheap it is to digitize those recordings and post them to YouTube. I figure you fellow lunatics would enjoy seeing these games, and SU has an appalling lack of content online from that era.

So, any advice?

i think senor palmer on the basketball board uploaded a bunch of basketball stuff to youtube, you might want to PM him.

it's not hard with some USB doohickey, it just takes a while.

or just get a tripod and record your tv with a camera. the quality is probably so-so anyway so who cares, no one here would complain however you did it

 

[Toga]

Perhaps someone at work might know.

 

[LeMoyneCuse]

 

[CuseCrew08]

I feel like this would be a fantastic project for the athletic department, the more Cuse content online the better!

(I have started trusting the AD now the Coyle has taken the reigns)

 

[texascpa]

Use this to convert to DVD and/or youtube.