the Mike Douglas dilemma

["Jackie Sheeler" <jsheeler>]

OK, maybe I'm making a leap here....

But I think there are enough of us on this list who want these videotapes to
make professional duplication a possibility.

According to http://www.copytape.com/vhs.htm, making between 26-50 copies of
a 120-minute tape costs $6.40/tape.  That's not much more than the retail
cost of a decent blank.  This site states that they won't dupe copyrighted
material, and I don't know if they'd include this show in that category (I
presume they mostly avoid copying Blockbuster movies for people to sell on
the street).

I'm willing to take on the coordination of this project if enough of us are
interested.
What do you all say?


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-babel-list
[mailto:owner-babel-list]On Behalf Of anthonyr
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 3:44 PM
To: babel-list
Subject: Re: Patti on the Mike Douglas show...


Cainebj wrote:
>
> well i have the three tapes - the biggest problem is they are each 90
minutes
> and tho i've only watched the first, patti is on it for over an hour - so
> you're talkin about ALOT of dubbing time...
>
> the only thing i'm lookin for video wise is the music video for Glitter -
> anyone?
>


I could make 2nd generation copies for everybody. You'd have to make me
a copy, and then I'd make copies from that. I think the quality could
still be acceptable, if your copy is as excellent as you say.


Anthony


> In a message dated 7/1/00 12:04:16 PM, mgart writes:
>
> 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 >>