VCR backup: did anyone of you really used it?

[pandy71]

Originally Posted by modrobert

By modernizing the idea, higher resolutions, piping raw data pixelated through 'ffmpeg' or similar, it should be possible to use YouTube as free public cloud storage then?

-"What are you watching?"
-"TOSEC..."

No doubt but also you can imagine using some form of steganography so you can use YT not in line with YT regulations...


Btw i still don't understand why H. Lyppens wrote about 40MB per hr on A500...

Oh and additionally you could use floppy port to decode video data - not only UART - this could be nice in terms of CPU load...

[AmigaHope]

Originally Posted by idrougge

Not when connected to a VHS it doesn't. Scart can carry all kinds of video, but that doesn't mean that it does in every case. When connected to a VHS recorder, all you get is composite video.

VHS actually has non-interfering chroma and luma channels. They probably could have gotten better video quality using composite, but they're actually laid out with a clear separation in bands in the signal. That said, the chroma signal has far, far less bandwidth than the luma so you'd only gain a bit more data using it to store information.

Most VHS recorders at the time used hard band-pass filters for their chroma/luma separation -- you don't need a comb filter when the luma resolution is so low that it doesn't interfere with chroma frequencies -- so you could even get away with encoding all that data in the chroma/luma bands on the composite input.

[XPD]

I had a homemade adaptor years ago, someone at the local Amiga club was making them for around $20NZD. Worked perfectly, but I didn't use it for long.