On the one hand, it seems obvious that they would, to ensure that the digitisation worked. On the other hand, they'd probably get through 1 customer per month if they did that. So either they just dump the material to a file and send it, or they check every 10 minutes or so and watch a few seconds, but no more than that. Does that sound about right? 🤔

I have some stuff from 30+ years ago I'd like digitised, but I don't know how I feel about a stranger watching 9-year old me be disproportionately excited to the point of tears about my Christmas gift of a life-size cardboard cutout of Wesley Snipes that my dad almost certainly stole from the video rental store. Some memories should stay memories.

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More expensive option but you can try to get a compatible camera on ebay, doesn't have to be the same model as long as they use the same format I THINK, (but note that some cameras were digital and still used the same tapes, I don't think those read will analogue, so if your tapes are analogue get an analogue camera), then all you need is a TV capture USB dongle with composite input or composite to HDMI + HDMI to USB.

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