Burn, Baby, Burn
Santa was good to me this year. Amongst a host of books and DVDs, I also received a video recorder that plays VHS tapes and burns them to DVD. Although quite a bit of my TV collection has been released on DVD over the last few years, a substantial portion likely never will be, and my VHS collection is really starting to age. So, one of my projects over the last couple weeks has been to try to transfer the collection to DVD before the tapes finish distintegrating.
In the process, I've realized just how bad the quality of many of the recordings really is. I got two seasons into burning My Secret Identity, then discovered that some of my recordings (made 20 years ago from an actual analog broadcast and recorded into SLP mode because video tapes still cost $15 each, then re-recorded a couple times as my archiving methods matured) were so bad that the audio and video weren't synching on the burn, sometimes by as much as five minutes.
The latter got so bad that I went seeking Torrents, and discovered that MSI is available online. I'm a week into the download, so whether the effort is worth it remains to be seen. On the plus side, no matter what happens, I'll get the three episodes I'm missing, one of which was a favorite.
Burns are already completed for VR.5 and Do Over. I also found the four unaired episodes of Do Over online. They are not in a form that I can download and burn, but at least I got to finaly see them. As of today, I'm also two seasons into Big Wolf on Campus. Next stop is probably going to be Haunted.
In the process, I've realized just how bad the quality of many of the recordings really is. I got two seasons into burning My Secret Identity, then discovered that some of my recordings (made 20 years ago from an actual analog broadcast and recorded into SLP mode because video tapes still cost $15 each, then re-recorded a couple times as my archiving methods matured) were so bad that the audio and video weren't synching on the burn, sometimes by as much as five minutes.
The latter got so bad that I went seeking Torrents, and discovered that MSI is available online. I'm a week into the download, so whether the effort is worth it remains to be seen. On the plus side, no matter what happens, I'll get the three episodes I'm missing, one of which was a favorite.
Burns are already completed for VR.5 and Do Over. I also found the four unaired episodes of Do Over online. They are not in a form that I can download and burn, but at least I got to finaly see them. As of today, I'm also two seasons into Big Wolf on Campus. Next stop is probably going to be Haunted.