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.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    It’s ok. You can say it. You’re 60+ years old, and you have some VHS home recordings you made in the 80s with a bunch of women you lured back to your basement dungeon, and then fed them m&ms until they agreed to have sex with you.

    And now you have like 400 VHS tapes that are a hassle to watch.

    But also, you don’t want the guy at CVS to know you have a tattoo of big bird on your left butt cheek.