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Hello!

Just to introduce myself, I’m newly signed up to originaltrilogy.com as of today. I’m posting to you from Darlington in County Durham, UK (North East England).

I saw a DVD magazine yesterday proclaiming the coming of OOT on DVD.

I found this site this morning.

By lunchtime my email was in LucasFilm’s inbox.

My parents are currently custodians of the secret plans… 3 VHS tapes of the OOT which have hardly ever been played. They were the last VHS releases in this country that I can recall. I have an even older set that I am playing to death.

I hope to transfer these tapes to DVD to stave off the inevitable degradation for a while. I had, of course, hoped I wouldn’t have to do that…

Don't you call me a mindless philosopher...!
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VHS? We have higher quality sources of the same material...like Laserdisc.
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We never had a Laserdisc player, so it never occurred to us to buy anything on Laserdisc.

Ah, the folly of youth...
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Welcome to the site, by the way. Lots of Brits on this site. I can hook you up with a good laserdisc transfer if you need it, although I'm a Yank across the pond. If no one closer to your home pipes up, send me a private message (PM) in a week or so and I'll see what I can do. Cheers!
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Many thanks! It's nice to be here!

I can't help it if I have a certain fondness for VHS, you know...

My first experience of it was marvelling as I watched the Jawas put the restraining bolt on R2-D2 in slow motion!
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Welcome to the forums.

I've gotta ask, but your login name semi implies that you could be a V/Vm fan. true? or is auraloffalwaffle just a North England thing?
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OH MY GOD!!!!!

My hands are literally shaking as I type! I've met someone who's even heard of V/Vm? And I met them by ACCIDENT?!!!

Okay, I'm calming down now...

Yeah, I love V/Vm and all kinds of scary/hilarious stuff of the same genre!

You?
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what or who on earth is V/Vm?

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A bunch of people from near Manchester, UK who like to put records through a mincing machine and release whatever comes out the other side.

As I say, they occupy a zone on the borders of scary/hilarious. Scary, like the reanimated corpse of the ballroom music from 'The Shining' rising out of a swamp of noise. Hilarious, like their take on 'Stay Another Day' by the British boy band East 17 - I defy anyone not to burst out laughing the first time they realise what what they're listening to used to be!

They made a record not so long back of all of Schostakovich's symphonies played simultaneously...

Zany!!
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Hmmm.. Sounds awful. I'd probably love it. I'll have to check it out.
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Looks like a match made in heaven.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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Sorry...couldn't help myself to that joke.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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Hello, Ell!

I had no joy with your link, I'm afraid! What's the web address?
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Yup i'm a significant V/Vm fan (got about 80% of their releases). Big fan of anything plunderphonic, i've done alot of hanging out online in those circles. Do you have a presense in the Butchers Slab Forums? (we're you around for the original posting page?) Do you butcher or make sounds yourself? What other artists/labels you into?

The fascinating thing about V/Vm (James), is his ability to identify odd musical trends and very often be at the forefront of cultural shifts. And yet after all this he's now on a semi-political bent, where he's offering one track a day for free, to reinforce the point that music is about being listened to, not an object to be bardered with coin and paper for. (although this does need to happen is you want artists to continue to create) Also if you have any appreciation for the advancement and de-evolution of culture, James is a magnet for those artists. If you want some expansion to your horizon, V/Vm is a great label to listen too. Irritainment for the best of the worst of the worst of the best.
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Sorry for bringing this thread ever-so-slightly-back-on-topic, but I have been dabbling with getting my fairly extensive UK VHS collection backed up onto DVD using a VHS player and a LiteOn DVD Recorder with the Macrovision block disabled.

Read a bit about it in this thread.

There are a few more details here.

However, a VHS transfer does not look as good as any of the properly transfered LaserDisc releases out there.

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I have several V/Vm CDs and one by Kid606 and one by Lesser. I also have some tracks on sampler CDs from 'The Wire' magazine. So, I guess, I have heard some stuff from V/Vm Test Records, Tigerbeat6, Ipecac and Matador.

I'm always interested in new things. I try to sample a little of all types of music from any point in history!

As for the sites you were talking about, I'm afraid I'm still very new to all this. This is the first forum site I've taken part in! Any suggestions are very welcome. What's this Butcher's Slab all about? Is it part of their site on Brainwashed?
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Many thanks for those links, russs15! I particularly enjoyed the scans of the covers, as I did have an early set - the very first VHS tapes I ever owned, given to me by my parents when we got our first VHS recorder. I now know that they were the 1988 fullscreen editions (CBS Fox 'All Time Greats').

Unfortunately, those tapes vanished one black day and were never recovered! They may have been stolen by some unscrupulous visitor to our home...

I replaced my loss with the 1991 widescreen editions, which I still have and are serving as my 'workhorse' tapes.

I also own the 1995 widescreen editions, which are with my parents and have hardly ever been played. These constitute my time capsule for the OOT.

Finally, I have the 1997 widescreen tapes in the silver box set. It didn't occur to me, until I read of your plans to commit the first "special editions" to DVD, that these versions are now, too, under threat, after the changes made for the latest DVD versions. Presumably Mr Lucas has determined these versions as being also not representative of his "artistic" "vision".

At the moment I find it difficult to justify the cost of a DVD recorder unit, therefore my plans to back-up my tapes are on hold. I am very interested in all of the variations between releases that you have discovered as you have been engaged on this venture. I will certainly be interested to follow your exploits...
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I do need to get my finger out and update the VHS page of the site as I now have loads more cover scans and much more details to add.

My entire collection was bought through ebay UK.

The trilogy you "lost" I got for under two quid plus postage and most of the rest were between 50p and three quid plus postage. I paid a bit more for the early releases but they are much rarer. The Executor box set was only 99p plus postage but that was a very bizzarre fluke.

I am glad you liked the VHS page from my site so if you want to see more and look at what LD transfers, edits, projects etc are out there on DVD, go here.

Ell referred to trades that he was willing to do and I suspect that many of the titles he has will be listed here.

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That's just rude!

You don't have to take that, Ell!
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russs15 - Love your Galactic Trade Federation site - I have scanned through it just now but I intend to return to it when I am more at my leisure.

I'm rather in a quandary about the releases coming this September, I have to say. My gut reaction is to boycott it (just like I have all the other DVD releases), but I can also see the point of view that others have put forward on this site - that it is, at least, an official Laserdisc transfer (and will certainly last longer than my poor little tapes...).

As far as DVD recorders go, certainly in the UK, it seems to me that you would have to step down the quality quite a bit to record the OOT from VHS from start to finish, am I right? Are there any dual layer recorders available yet?

I think it's time I upgraded my PC - presumably one could hook up a VHS recorder to a video card and transfer to DVD via appropriate software?

I'm not neglecting the good advice about the DVDs already available, by the way. I just would quite like to succeed in making my own DVDs, you know? Is that silly?
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Welcome to one of the coolest and friendliest SW forums around mate.

In regards to your question about DVD recorders, I bought my Cyberhome DVD recorder for £65 from Asda and not only is is good for recording but it's alos hands down the best DVD players I've ever owned. Its the same one I used to caputure PS2 footage for the releases mentioned in my sig, but it also plays anything you stick in, even plain old divx data discs

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The Sith Revealed - A Scrapbook
Episode III The Video Game - The Movie
24: The Missing Day
Star Wars - The Interactive Board Game DVD
Battlefront - Journal of the 501st
The Clones Revealed

email me for details daveytod AT btinternet DOT com

 

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The important thing to look for with any DVD Recorder bought with a view to recording bought VHS tapes is the Macrovision that the tapes are protected by.

Straight from the box, my LiteOn would not allow copying of any bought tape or any premium SKY TV channel - movies/sports etc. I found and installed a Macrovision disabling hack and now it works fine.

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