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Hi all,
I just picked up a laserdisc set of this series and am putting out feelers to see if anyone with LD transfer experience (and nicer equipment) would like to help transferring the discs. The series has never been on DVD, and when asked in an interview about a future release, one of the series creators said “don’t hold your breath”…apparently some stubborn copyright hurdles (many clips, and many persons interviewed).
I got a great deal on the discs, but being a student, it was still very expensive for me. It would take several years before I could justify the purchase of one of the nicer LD players, and then there would be the capture card. At this point, I am toying with the idea of uncompressed captures stored on HDD’s, and this series is about 13 hours total…so clearly some significant cost for disc storage alone if I go to that extreme. Further, I’m not even sure my computer is powerful enough to handle uncompressed video.
I won’t try to convince anyone as to the importance of this series, and the love people have for it has been conveyed often enough on imdb, amazon, etc… beauty is in the eye of the beholder of course. Like everything else, the entire thing is on youtube if you’d like to watch a bit for yourself. I think one channel with all episodes (divided into 10 minute chunks) is here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/qualigin
Like I said, putting out feelers. I could do an “ok” transfer myself, but I’d love to to max out the quality since I’m going through the trouble. By the way, the LD machines I’d prefer to use - based on what I’ve read - are Pioneer models (in decending order) X0, X9, LD-S2, V-800. The last two machines iirc don’t have optical audio output, so there’s a question of whether or not to have audio ripped in a separate pass on different machine and then combine later. Getting way ahead of myself I know, but that’s some of what I’ve been pondering.
SO, if anyone is even interested - or has advice - please let me know.
thanks for reading,
TF