Re: Patti on the Mike Douglas show...

[The Braens <braeniac>]

I have access to 10 VHS machines at work. As long as I don't abuse the
privilege (set me free), I can make some dubs. Happy to help out.

Phil

"Gart, Mitch" wrote:

> anthonyr wrote
>
> >As much as I'd love to see these tapes, it sounds like a rip-off to me.
> >Maybe a video tree could be arranged, whereby the owner could re-coup
> >the price he/she paid? I'd pay $4 or $5 for a copy. But I wouldn't bid
> >for it.
>
> Videos degrade a lot when going from generation to generation.
> If you copy a video, then copy the copy, after 3 or 4 generations
> it looks really terrible.  It's a lot worse than audio tapes.
> So a kind person could get the tapes and then make lots of first
> generation copies for people on the list, and that would be great.
> But tree thing wouldn't work so well because of generation
> degeneration :-)
>
> That could work well if there were a new person interested in doing
> a bunch of trades, who didn't have many tapes.  They could get the
> video, make a bunch of copies, and then trade each copy for somthing
> they don't have.  It would be a way for a new person to build a big
> collection of other Patti tapes quickly.  Anyone out there interested?
>
> - Mitch