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I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them

A story about data and a very foolish hobby

Created and mostly written by Paul Rose, it wasn’t like the rest of teletext, which was fairly dry in its presentation – Digi had an anarchic sense of humour, and exploited the medium to its full extent, with gags that made use of the “press reveal” button, and cartoon characters formed of blocks in the eight colours that the technology could handle. Using his software, if you play in a VHS tape to a TV capture card, it will take the raw recording data, pick out the nuggets of teletext, and like magic will stitch them back together into complete pages. Numbering in the low-dozens, these brave nerds seek out VHS tape archives of off-air TV recordings, and painstakingly capture the data and reassemble the pages.

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