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This has been a fun little restoration project. My friend and music journalist Simon Jones handed me an old VHS tape recently. On it he tells me, “is the holy grail for Steeleye Span fans. A very rare recording of a TV appearance they made in 1970.“ His request was simple, “could you copy the programme from the tape?“ The transfer process was simple enough, if a little convoluted. I still have a couple of fully functioning JVC S-VHS decks, so that helped a whole lot! The one I plumped for is a HR-S8700EK. A S-VHS deck with a built in digital time base corrector, which I would use to stabilise the video image. The audio and video outputs from this were hooked up to a Pioneer DVR-720H DVD/Hard Disk recorder and the programme was recorded digitally. Normally I would capture the tape directly to my PC with a Terratec Firewire capture card but in this case there was some tape deterioration and the resultant picture disturbance upset the capture card and interrupted the capture. Th
