The master tapes of ReBoot have been found! The whole series, original format, uncompressed—but not usable without a a working Bosch BTS D1 deck. Reskeet and share to help these documentarians find a deck! @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.socialglobalnews.ca/news/1019451...
A pioneering work for its time, Vancouver-produced 'ReBoot' was the first full-length 3D animated TV series. A pair of documentarians have now secured the show's digital masters.
I wonder if Techmoan on YouTube might know someone that has this machine. Might be worth reaching out to him, especially with some of those tapes mentioning PAL as he's from across the pond.
Ask the folks at the AMIA. (amianet.org) Someone in that group will know. Also, reach out to the motion picture division at the US Library of Congress. They do work with older formats quite a bit.
has anyone reached out to Cathode Ray Dude over on youtube? i don't think he's on bsky but I know he's pretty active on Cohost these days. he might have an idea that could help!
Someone who's still on Twitter should tag @OddityArchive
The wildest and most important IMO part of this story is that the tapes were just sitting there lost among all the unarchived stuff at the studio. A LOT of TV/film masters are lost this way, simply by no one at the studio bothered or tasked to archive/catalogue and just toss it all in a back room.
I loved that show
Reboot....wow that's a blast from the past.
At least they’re on D1, an uncompressed digital tape format Hopefully there hasn’t been any magnetic degradation. One of the bad things about digital vs analog tape formats is that magnetic corruption or tape damage can lead to entire frames being lost, vs just worse quality for that frame.
The thing I'm thinking is, because this was a computer-animated show: do they have the source files for the original renders? It seems like you could re-render just about every episode for high definition (though some textures might need to be uprezzed)