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.
I do this for a living and if you request it we can respect your wishes and turn off the live feed TV while recording.
To ease your worry I can add that we’ve done so many that it’s just background noise to us, we only pay attention to when something weird happens like flickering or other damaged tape type stuff. We only really look at it in the first few seconds when we start the recording to make sure everything is running smoothly. During processing we watch at very high speed playback just to ensure there’s no long dead gaps or someone accidentally filmed a 1 hour close up of the floor. Stranger’s special moments are extremely dull to us and we don’t care. :)