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hauberkhauberk Posts: 1,511
edited March 2013 in Off Topic - The Everything Else Room
Interesting piece on a SXSW documentary on video-philes...

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/03/rewind-this-vhs-documentary/

eta: @Adam_Murdough tag to make sure that the Master of Muttonchops doesn't miss it.
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  • hauberkhauberk Posts: 1,511
    edited March 2013
    A correctly applied off-topic flag... didn't pay attention to which forum I was in. Might I solicit an admin to move this to Off-topic?
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  • David_DDavid_D Posts: 3,884
    No problem. Moved!
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  • Adam_MurdoughAdam_Murdough Posts: 506
    Hey, thanks for the link--sounds like my kinda project! Great to know there's a whole subculture of VHS classicists like me out there, though I fall into the camp that believes there's value in the medium itself, above and beyond the fact that it's the only way to see certain obscure film gems that never had a digital release. I'm especially interested in the idea of the VHS tape as palimpsest, a composite historical document made up of multiple video texts layered one atop the other with each new recording. I'm geeking out just thinking about it!
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  • rebisrebis Posts: 1,820
    "Palimpsest"

    World English Dictionary
    palimpsest (ˈpælɪmpˌsɛst) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]

    — n
    1. a manuscript on which two or more successive texts have been written, each one being erased to make room for the next

    — adj
    2. (of a text) written on a palimpsest
    3. (of a document) used as a palimpsest

    [C17: from Latin palimpsestus parchment cleaned for reuse, from Greek palimpsēstos, from palin again + psēstos rubbed smooth, from psēn to scrape]
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  • dubbat138dubbat138 Posts: 3,200
    Adam_Murdough said:

    Hey, thanks for the link--sounds like my kinda project! Great to know there's a whole subculture of VHS classicists like me out there, though I fall into the camp that believes there's value in the medium itself, above and beyond the fact that it's the only way to see certain obscure film gems that never had a digital release. I'm especially interested in the idea of the VHS tape as palimpsest, a composite historical document made up of multiple video texts layered one atop the other with each new recording. I'm geeking out just thinking about it!

    There is 2 or more VHS based documentaries being worked on right now. Plus a small resurgence of VHS releases.
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