WTAE-TV bumpers, promos, and commercials (November 1987)

Описание: A supercut of all the WTAE-related material on a VHS tape recorded at EP speed. Specific details are below:

A T-120 tape containing around 4 hours of late 1980s KDKA, WPGH, WTAE, and WPXI.

Judging by the various Thanksgiving mentions on the uncut tape, this was recorded late into November of 1987. The TV programs that play go in order:
ESPN Scholastic Sports America
Las Vegas: An All-Star 75th Anniversary
(unknown color film, starts around 2:13:40 on full tape) aired on WPGH-TV
USA Tonight
KDKA News
Pittsburgh 2Day
Love Connection (cut off)
The Cosby Show
Cheers (only a minute or two at most)

Upscaled to 4K for YouTube using Lanczos4Resize, deinterlaced with QTGMC, and denoised using MCTemporalDenoise, all within StaxRip.
I do not claim to be well versed in the artform of analog media encoding, so I encourage anyone who knows better to give it a try themselves using the RF samples on the archive.org page: https://archive.org/details/kodak_vhs_nov_... (not yet available)

Rest of description is a direct paste from archive.org page: h

The MKV included is an FFV1 interlaced copy with one audio track:
1. Mono (linear) tape audio

This archive includes the FM RF copies of the analogue format (VHS). The media was captured with two modified VTImage capture cards (CXADC) at 40MSPS for the video signal, and 10MSPS for the VHS Hi-Fi audio.
This is the original signal off of the medium before processing past initial signal tracking and pre-amplification - a raw master digital copy or medium transfer.

Capture hardware used: 2x VTImage capture cards (CXADC) sampling at 40MSPS, overclocked via https://github.com/namazso/cxadc-clockgen-mod
VCR & Tap setup used: Sony SLV-677HF, PB RF pin 2 on CN261 for video FM RF, CN341 pin 3 for VHS Hi-Fi FM RF
TV System & Tape Format: NTSC, VHS SP
Commands used to decode the FFV1 archive provided:
vhs-decode --debug --ntsc --threads 8 --tape_format VHS --recheck_phase

Version of decode used at the time: 8b9a53b

Runtime: 04:32:45:000

Audio: Yes

Included in this archive is the RF information, exported FFV1 video file, and commands used with vhs-decode as well as hifi-decode.

A de-interlaced 59.94p x264 MKV is included for streaming purposes, and was done so using QTGMC via StaxRip.

Please visit the vhs-decode GitHub page if you wish to obtain newer versions of the decoders, other tools and more information past what is presented here.

https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode/wiki/