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YouTube creator & archivist (AKA ReelyInteresting) / HDTV historian / Electronics repair & design / "Video is art"

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All, I am happy to announce that I will be giving OP Workshop's first presentation on the history of HDTV and computing technology at this year's Vintage Computer Festival Midwest in Schaumburg, Illinois, USA on Sept. 13th.

If you're nearby, you'll absolutely love VCFMW. Plus, it's free to attend!
August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Hackaday wrote an article about my recovery of the 1985 Summer Festival in Japan discovered in HD on the original 1" tape format! hackaday.com/2025/03/05/i...
Is This The Oldest HD Video Online?
Take a look at this video from [Reely Interesting], showing scenes from traditional Japanese festivals. It’s well filmed, and as with any HD video, you can see real detail. But as you watch, …
hackaday.com
August 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Reposted by OP Workshop
Someone in the @futureport82.bsky.social community found a reel at auction. They reached out to @opworkshop.bsky.social to help transfer it.

It turns out it was source footage of the Virtual Classroom from the Spaceship Earth 94!

archive.org/details/disn...
Disney Epcot Spaceship Earth HD Clone 941222 : Walt Disney Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Spaceship Earth 1994 - Virtual Classroom Source VideoTransferred from HDVS 1 tape by OP Workshop
archive.org
June 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I didn't find this one. Some keen-eye'd folks in the @futureport82.bsky.social community found/bought the reel and managed to reach out to me for capture on my Sony HDD-1000 hardware! Very lucky & very happy this all worked out and the provided such nice results!
June 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If you ever feel like you made a mistake you can't recover from, just remember that Sylvanian Families were originally marketed as "Pleasant Friends of the Forest Epoch System Collection Animal Toy Sylvanian Families."
May 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
First post who dis
December 3, 2023 at 11:42 PM