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  1. cardy

    Shopper's Alert! The Thread

    Thought I'd return out of the mist that is the internet to share this little germ people would enjoy seeing. Some of the items this person is selling are way too pricey whereas this flyer set was ridiculously low. I actually would've liked to have gotten the Ex-ans flyer out of all of these...
  2. cardy

    The A/V Thread

    VLC does playback AVIs with deinterlacing properly if you activate it. For whatever reason, all of my captures done with Virtual Dub and saved with Lagarith are Top Field First but the file flags it as Bottom Field First. Whenever I turn on deinterlacing in VLC it attempts to do BFF and there's...
  3. cardy

    The Magazine Project

    That scanner looks interesting and when I loaded that ebay link again the last one was already sold. I need to find someone in Germany that has this scanner. I wouldn't trust any scanner could make it from the US in shipping without potential damage to the glass or LED scanner portion. I...
  4. cardy

    Tetsu Takano 2nd solo album 「 all songs is lovesong 」released on April 14, 2023

    Takano going to Taiwan with Imai might've been just a tax write off too. Imai and Kiyoharu would often go on trips together to shoot music videos together in far away places like southeast asia or America. It would often just be the two of them. I guess I can't fault them, I'd probably do the...
  5. cardy

    The A/V Thread

    Great summary. I agree with everything here and I pretty much follow these steps with slight variations (different USB card, I use Lagarith codec) The Panasonic ES-10 is a great cheapo device ($25-100 used) which often helps stabilize the signal from a VHS deck. In lieu of a proper TBC like...
  6. cardy

    The Magazine Project

    I think this would be a great idea for this small world that we live in. There's some magazines existing on archive.org from one user and there was that live journal user who valiantly scanned a whole lot of magazines 15 years ago but besides that I feel like these magazines will get lost in...
  7. cardy

    Tetsu Takano 2nd solo album 「 all songs is lovesong 」released on April 14, 2023

    Toshihiko Imai is the director / photographer who Tetsu has been working with since the 2000 or so. He did all of the early nil videos and maybe some Zigzo videos here and there. He's also is Kiyoharu's first pick when it comes to shooting PV's, concerts and documentaries and they've been...
  8. cardy

    Tetsu Takano 2nd solo album 「 all songs is lovesong 」released on April 14, 2023

    Tetsu Takano is probably the most prolific ex-Malice Mizer member. Through his various bands, he's released roughly an album every year since 1999. Despite his countless projects, he has only released one solo album back in 2006 which were covers of nil songs. That has changed with the release...
  9. cardy

    The A/V Thread

    I need to get a testing tape(s) to see if my deck is acting funny. Would you recommend an azimuth specific tape, you shared a link to one last year, or is better to go with a specific tone tape like you have here. I believe the tape you linked is the one being sold by this person...
  10. cardy

    Shopper's Alert! The Thread

    Just stumbled across this while searching for other things on YJA: 3Pマヨネーズ THE MONKey PUNK'N' ROLL iDOL https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/s1082065234 I can't tell if it's real or not but judging by the bids early on....maybe?
  11. cardy

    The A/V Thread

    I just went through a little nightmare this past week. A friend of mine who is into 80's punk and hardcore from Japan gave me 15 or so cassettes to transfer. One tape, the most expensive one of the bunch, played fine on Side B but when I played Side A the only signal that was coming out was all...
  12. cardy

    The A/V Thread

    Seeing your results is great though and I'm enjoying reading about it. I wish there were more people out there who I can 'look over the shoulder' and see what they were doing to get their vinyl / cassette captures right. Even with lineages that often come from an analog transfer, there's all of...
  13. cardy

    The A/V Thread

    I just mentioned in the other thread that I find the noise floor becomes higher when adjusting the azimuth on tapes with a smaller frequency spectrum 6-10khz which has lost it's high frequencies. For tapes with a good 10-15khz range, the noise floor changes are less noticeable or imperceptible...
  14. cardy

    The A/V Thread

    That's my thinking too. I just was recently back in New York, where I have all of my VCR gear...and I mainly transfer tapes on a SVHS JVC player which was prosumer grade back then. Out of curiosity I transferred a few tapes with a junky consumer VCR and while I inspected it on screen and it...
  15. cardy

    The A/V Thread

    The good part of tapping the RF is that it apparently doesn't even require a good deck. Cheap ones can get the job done and even transfer SVHS tapes as all of that conversion of the signal happens in software later. It doesn't even need a TBC to stabilize the signals and that can be also done...
  16. cardy

    The A/V Thread

    Happy New Year y'all few scapers reading this! Looks pretty interesting. Too bad it's unavailable to most people. I've actually been reading up on the whole LD-decode / VHS-decode movement where instead of capturing the analog output of video via S-Video or Composite cables into a capture...
  17. cardy

    The A/V Thread

    Adjustable pots doesn't sound so intimidating. I'll have to crack it open one day. Have you thought about bringing the Dragon to an hi-fi shop to get officially repaired? Or is the price for repairs just too much to get it in working order? I haven't seen it go for that much....last time I...
  18. cardy

    The A/V Thread

    When I had the Nakamichi DR-3 I transferred a few tapes and then transferred them again when I got the DR-1. All of those tapes are consistently lower in one channel with the DR-1. So I chalk it up to being the player. I downloaded the service manual for the DR-1 and the exploded views of the...
  19. cardy

    Random Thoughts: The Return

    I guess Alvin and the Chipmunks had some fans in Japan!
  20. cardy

    Random Thoughts: The Return

    Jeez, I remember reading about this story a few years back and was happy for the guy trying to bring some change / reform to the overall grind that is Japanese customer service. It's a shame that it sort of justifies that grinding nature of Japanese society in order to attain that 'customer...
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