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NSA Claims It Can’t Watch a Tape It Recorded in the 1980s(gizmodo.com)

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Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Which means they need a player AND a way to digitize it from that player, so if it does die, it will still be recorded.

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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Digitizing is the easy part. Even though it’s an ancient format, it’s still just NTSC composite video and analog audio. You digitize it just like you would a VHS tape.

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The zero-effort method of pointing a camera and mic at the screen as it’s being played back should be sufficient if they can’t do it another way. Given the tape’s age, the resolution is unlikely to be high enough to lose significant details that way.

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