Refer to the article FireWire versus USB for more information. FireWire is considered a bygone technology, being replaced with ubiquitous USB technology. Also, note that there was a time when laptops were built with FireWire capability, but modern laptops are no longer supplied with this functionality. Fortunately, I had a fairly recent motherboard that did. Point to note though is that many modern motherboards no longer support PCI. Fortunately, I had a FireWire PCI card that worked.
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A FireWire card has to be installed in a desktop PC to receive the output from the ADVC-50. Note that the Canopus units deliver a digital format over FireWire technology. As I hadn’t stored it carefully, I’d probably zapped the circuitry from an electrostatic discharge at some point. Nothing I did could correct a vertical roll of the image. So I set that up, but, with age, it too had failed.
I had a Canopus ADVC-50 unit that I could use to convert analogue footage to digital. This helps the tape to move freely during video capture. The first thing to do prior to playing tapes that have not been used for some time is to re-tension the tape by fast forwarding to the end and then rewinding back to the beginning of the tape. Time to digitise those VHS tapes I thought and have the digitised files accessible in a Plex library. It dawned on me though that once that failed, I wouldn’t be able to view any VHS footage easily. I wasn’t keen on picking up a secondhand unit on e-Bay as it was going to be a bit of a lottery picking up a unit that did not suffer from mechanical issues given the vintage of these units.įortunately, I had a backup VCR a Panasonic NV-FJ620 that still worked. To my shock and horror, I realised that you could no longer buy a new VCR. So I got online to look to first repair or replace my unit with a newer and more recent model. My VCR had suffered a catastrophic mechanical fault in the tape transport mechanism. Feeling nostalgic, I hooked up my top-of-the-line Samsung SV-4000W VCR and put in a tape to watch. I came across a box of VHS tapes recently that had been in storage for several years.
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