Re: the Mike Douglas dilemma

[Shelley Williams <dreaming>]

count me in

shelley






>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 >>