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Sun Nov 06, 2005 4:46 am Post subject:
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Wondering if any advancement came along that I missed, where you can
get back something you erased on a VHS tape. I know the old story
about "once the magnetic strip is compromised" blah blah, but figured
at some point, something will come along that will allow us to retrieve
erased footage on a vhs tape.
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Netmask
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Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:41 am Post subject:
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I guess the only folks who could do this are the Spook Agencies and I don't
think your VHS would qualify as "National Defence"...
<Mcfly8586@aol.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Wondering if any advancement came along that I missed, where you can
get back something you erased on a VHS tape. I know the old story
about "once the magnetic strip is compromised" blah blah, but figured
at some point, something will come along that will allow us to retrieve
erased footage on a vhs tape.
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Richard Crowley
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Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:41 am Post subject:
Re: erased vhs footage...retrievable? |
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Mcfly8586 wrote ...
| Quote: | Wondering if any advancement came along that I missed, where you can
get back something you erased on a VHS tape. I know the old story
about "once the magnetic strip is compromised" blah blah, but figured
at some point, something will come along that will allow us to
retrieve
erased footage on a vhs tape.
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Erased? Bulk erased? Recorded-over? How?
Likely not anything worth the potential cost.
And likely not at all if you mean "recorded-over". |
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:52 am Post subject:
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Yeah, recorded over. I have a tape of tv stuff that only aired once
which was recorded over by accident, so the only way to get the footage
back is if somehow I could view the erased portion. If any tech.
advancements had come along where you can "retrieve" erased portions of
that sort of stuff. |
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:07 am Post subject:
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Mcfly8586@aol.com wrote:
| Quote: | Wondering if any advancement came along that I missed, where you can
get back something you erased on a VHS tape. I know the old story
about "once the magnetic strip is compromised" blah blah, but figured
at some point, something will come along that will allow us to retrieve
erased footage on a vhs tape.
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If it has been written over you could hope the tracking left a little
of the original signal but you are unlikely to recover a decent
playable image.
You could search on "data recovery" services but I think you will find
the cost is exceptionably high. |
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David Carlstrom
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 3:36 am Post subject:
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If you recorded over it, there is not a thing left of the first program.
The record magnetic field is strong enough to remove every domain of the
first recording.
<Mcfly8586@aol.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Yeah, recorded over. I have a tape of tv stuff that only aired once
which was recorded over by accident, so the only way to get the footage
back is if somehow I could view the erased portion. If any tech.
advancements had come along where you can "retrieve" erased portions of
that sort of stuff.
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Bill Quinn
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:26 am Post subject:
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<Mcfly8586@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1131303129.258515.6950@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
| Quote: | Yeah, recorded over. I have a tape of tv stuff that only aired once
which was recorded over by accident, so the only way to get the footage
back is if somehow I could view the erased portion. If any tech.
advancements had come along where you can "retrieve" erased portions of
that sort of stuff.
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I think should try posting to groups where someone may have recorded it
too.What was on the tape? Can you contact the station?
-Bill |
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Serial # 19781010
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:42 pm Post subject:
Re: erased vhs footage...retrievable? |
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On 6 Nov 2005 10:52:09 -0800, Mcfly8586@aol.com wrote:
| Quote: | Yeah, recorded over. I have a tape of tv stuff that only aired once
which was recorded over by accident, so the only way to get the footage
back is if somehow I could view the erased portion. If any tech.
advancements had come along where you can "retrieve" erased portions of
that sort of stuff.
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The short answer is NO.
When you erase (record over) a tape you are replacing content A with
content B. Content A no longer exists to recover. There is nothing
left of content A to "retrieve".
Erasing a video tape should not be confused with "deleting" files on
your hard disk. Deleting files ALLOWS the replacement of content A
with content B but does not necessarily do so immediately as it would
on a rerecorded video tape. So if not too much time has passed you can
recover all or part of a "deleted" file on a hard disk. |
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:34 pm Post subject:
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Thanks for the replies. I only ask because I had deleted some files
from a dvd+rw but when I went to play the disc on the computer I went
through a VTS format and the files I had deleted were still there. |
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