Re: the Mike Douglas dilemma

[Lkg <Lkg>]

I'm down.  (As in: Me too! Sign me up!)  And if this turns
into a tree, I'm (hopefully) almost in a position to be a
branch (ordered me new VCR's).  (I can handle degradation,  (:D)
as long as some facial features can be made out. :D)

 :} Lkg

Jackie Sheeler wrote:

> 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 >>