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I'm getting rid of an old Hi8 camcorder and figured I'd throw in the tapes with it, but I want to wipe the contents of the tapes before I do. I don't have a huge magnet or anything I can use to quickly erase the tapes, so the only option is to record over them using the camcorder. Instead of being boring and just muting it and leaving the lens cap on I figured I might put something vaguely interesting on there.

The camcorder is one of those fancy units where the audio/video outputs can be used as audio/video inputs when the thing is in tape playback/recording mode (VTR). I do have an HDMI -> Composite converter, so I can actually record video and audio together, albeit at 480i with bleeding colors. Alternatively I can leave the lens cap on and pipe audio directly into the microphone jack, which is stereo.

As for what to record, my spouse and I have come up with a few ideas:

  • Vaporwave (generally)
  • Weather Channel Vaporwave (specifically)
  • ~2 hours of the Lo-fi Girl stream
  • Everywhere at the End of Time (broken across 3 tapes)
  • A public domain serial radio drama (Have Gun Will Travel is my vote)
  • Public domain films (Laurel and Hardy or maybe some Charlie Chaplin)
  • Steven Soderbergh's silent black & white recut of Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Analog horror of some kind (e.g. Backrooms, Gemini Home Entertainment, Local 58 except it's way too short)

Aside from that, generally anything that might look better with proper analog distortion is an obvious win. The camcorder can only record at full speed, 2.5 hours per tape, so no way to add extra distortion that way.

Also I do have a capture card and can turn around and re-record whatever I put on these tapes, so if you want to see the results I can show you.

Anywho, what's your suggestions Lemmy? What treasures can I leave on these Hi8 tapes?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Rick Astley on a loop?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Obscure analog horror or obscure movies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Got any recommendations?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Badger Badger Badger on a loop.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Saturday Night Live rendition of "What Is Love" (10 hour YouTube loop).

Here you go.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You could try a homemade sex tape. If it gets leaked you could become rich and famous like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just keep the tapes and let whoever gets the camera get their own tapes. Had they gotten hard to find or anything? I have a few around (unopened) that I can send you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Once I get rid of the camcorder I won't have anything that can use the tapes. I won't have any use for the tapes. They may as well go with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well if the tapes have highly private stuff on them I'd hang on to them or get them shredded. Overwriting might not completely obligated the old content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Nothing that private, or they'd have already been pitched in the shredder. It's just old family movies mostly, already digitized and saved away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

So if anyone cares, here's what I finally went with on each tape. Not every tape was full, so some of these only needed an hour-ish of content to tape over it.

  • The entirety of The Backrooms, starting just after the title sequence, followed by some Everywhere at the End of Time
  • The entirety of Local 58, including the 30 minute lander stream
  • The bulk of The Mandela Effect (total runtime is longer than 2 hours by a lot)
  • David Lynch's Rabbits, followed by This House Has People In It
  • Weather Channel Vaporwave (full tape length)
  • The North Korean monster film Pulgasari, followed by the silent film version of Jekyll and Hide
  • Mystery Science Theater 3000: Godzilla vs. Megalon (one of the ones with no proper DVD release, keep circulating the tapes!)
  • Every FenserFilms G.I. Joe PSA parody (short tape)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

A loop of Linus saying “NVIDIA, fuck you!”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why not just film the wall until your tape runs out and then swap the tape to the next.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dismantle the tapes and cut the tape in peices?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To make it unreadable to the wast, wast majority of people.

I thought that was the end goal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That is not the end goal. I want the tapes to still be usable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Alright, then I misunderstood, it was early in the morning (: