Rhys is passionate about preserving Australian television history. In 2010, they got a capture card and began capturing stuff from old VHS tapes they had. They then uploaded these finds online and have garnered a lot of praise, comments, and requests to find ads that people either remember, or were a part of. Every time a person finds an ad on their channel that they remember from 20 years ago, they’re really happy that they could find it for them. Since then, they expanded out into Betamax and U-matic, both long-dead formats with a lot of more interesting and older content. Rhys has assisted BTQ-7 in finding a colour recording of Seven Eyewitness News from 1975 that they did not have in their archives. Their work has been appreciated by Jamie Dunn (Agro), Tim Ferguson (Doug Anthony All Stars), Tony Martin (The Late Show, Get This), George Donikian (News Host), Les Murray (Soccer Commentator), Peter Doherty (Channel Seven Brisbane News reporter), Francis Greenslade (The Micallef P(r)ogram(me), Welcher & Welcher) and many other people from the Television industry.
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