A Tale of Two Transfers

Many YouTube videos have such low technical quality as to be barely watchable, so my sister Jean was impressed by an OK copy, despite being a vertically cropped version with the wrong aspect ratio, of the Beatles in A Hard Day’s Night doing “If I Fell.” Here’s how it appears and sounds on YouTube…

… and here’s my own transfer, from LaserDisc, captured on a Pinnacle 500 PCI. Better?

[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/2009/JAN/IfIFell.flv 480 360]

2 thoughts on “A Tale of Two Transfers”

  1. Yeah, the YouTube is mono, but it’s CRISPER, the way I like it! Snap, Crackle, Pop! It’s the Beatles. Damn, they were good-looking chaps back then. Dontcha love how Ringo’s face just lights up when he grins at the beginning of the tape? Oh, yeah, you’re a guy!

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