home entertainment
Looks like David Pogue got himself a TV show and one of the topics discussed was transferring content from dying formats like VHS to longevity-unproven formats like DVD. Essentially, Pogue finds out that commercial transferring services are pretty terrible (they usually don't color correct) and the only way to accurately transfer stuff from actual movie reels is to pay an arm and a leg to NASA scientists (or just about). He does bring up a good point about storing our priceless content an any of the formats du jour.
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