hi everyone,

i thought i'd give you a quick update on this project. i currently have:

the dvds in ntsc and pal, with english, french, and japanese audio
the 'pirates & the prince' "movie" on ntsc vhs
episodes 1, 2, 5 and 6 on ntsc vhs in english (the j2 releases). these are in good shape, and look nice for vhs.
the complete series, except ep 9 and the great heep, on pal vhs in english (the cbs fox releases). two of these won't play in my vcr and are giving me error messages. the other looks kind of bad, with all sorts of scratchy video, audio glitches and tracking problems.
en route, but not in hand: the complete series (except coby) on ntsc vhs in japanese
a bad quality download of ep 9

in addition to all that, i've also found a bunch of the foreign language audio online:

the dvds in spanish
the great heep and eps 3 and 5-9 in one spanish translation
eps 1, 2 and 4 in two separate spanish translations
the opening theme in spanish (two versions), german and swedish

i also got my advc-110 and started the transfers, which is going well.

i haven't completely decided how i'm going to put this all together. i'm thinking of aiming for one dvd per "cycle". for those episodes that were part of the "movies" i'm thinking of having two angles, one that's straight vhs-sourced, and one that's got the dvd frames in where possible. then, multiple audio tracks for each. i've also thought about splitting the movies up into their constituent episodes and having those as separate options. so for example, episode 5 would have a "VHS/broadcast version" and a "DVD version", each w/ separate audio etc. i haven't decided yet whether i'm going to do subtitles, but the dvds i have have english, french, and dutch (and maybe japanese? i can't remember) subtitles. i haven't checked out closed captioning at all yet.

i've also put some thought into bonus stuff, but not much, so if people have suggestions feel free to let me know.

ps if anybody has a sony slv-x315 vcr and knows what error "e2 09 03" means, could you give me a shout?