[Novalug] Need friend with VCR -- update

[Beartooth]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Beartooth wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Nino Pereira wrote:

>> you don't say anything about the format this videotape is in. 
>> Are you sure it's a 'normal' tape?
>
> 	No, I'm not. However, there's a post on a VTLUUG forum 
> today, which I've just replied to, from someone here who has A 
> VCR and a mythtv box (whatever that is); he thinks he can make 
> an mpeg of it. We'll see.

 	Haven't contacted that guy yet; but my wife kindly left 
the cassette at a photo shop which plans to produce a copy and a 
couple of DVDs over the weekend. If it can, of course; I warned 
them about the format.

>> In this case you should be able to see it through your 
>> television, the way you normally watch videotapes, and then 
>> you can without any doubt convert it to some digital format 
>> (but, I don't know how: maybe someone else at NoVALUG knows).

 	I have no television. Not over my dead body. Much less 
anything that accepts tapes. That's why I need something that I 
can view on my monitor.

 	I have no idea what equipment my local doctor has, either 
in his office or at home. But it seems a reasonable bet he'll be 
able to view either a tape or a DVD; and another friend, who 
teaches veterinary pathology, wants to view it -- but he's out of 
town at present.

 	Stay tuned; and many thanks to all for the help so far!

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