A box of videos that are degrading

debodun

debodun

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I keep seeing this ad for a service that will convert your old videos, tapes and photos to a digital format. They open the ad with, "Do you have a box of old video tapes or photos that are degrading?" I always laugh - that can be taken 2 ways:
Degrading - deteriorating
Degrading - embarrassing

But I'm sure they mean the first one. ;)
 

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degrading...:ROFLMAO:

my dad was NOT a photographer but did have a few cameras and took a lot of pic throughout our lives. he had one of those 8mm "home movie" cameras and i can still remember being BLINDED by that bar of lights. he had a Polaroid... the one where you had to smear this sticky/smelly stuff across surface of picture to preserve. and he had a SH-load of 35 mm slides from all of our Griswold-esque, road-trip vacations.

my sister took all the camera stuff home with her after a visit. she had a friend (maybe an in-law?) who had a gizmo to transfer the slides onto a cd. if you remember having actual pictures/prints/slides, you remember a large % could be total duds... blurred, heads cut off, dupes etc. she said she probably toss almost half of the slides. in the box with the movie camera was an unopened/sealed film cartridge, with a "best by" date of (i don't remember but this is probably close) something like 1956! an unopened/sealed pack of Polaroid film... best used by something like 1967. she took all the cameras to a shop and unfortunately was told they were not worth trying to fix.

all of the slides were stored in those cartridges or boxes. they were still either degrading or degrading... iykwim!:rolleyes:
 
I always laugh about that commercial for the same reason. I’d like to send them a message and say, “Buddy, you have no idea how degrading my video tapes and photos are!”
 
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