Fall/Holiday Classic DVD Outlook = Bleak (1 Viewer)

[Dave Lawrence]

Looking over at my shelves, which include all seasons of Medical Center, Spenser for Hire, Search, Hank, Night Court, Eight is Enough, McClain's Law, Flo, Seasons 1 - 4 of Alice, Season 1 of The Eleventh Hour, several TV movies and a few Hanna-Barbera releases, I wish more companies proved to be such a "bust" with TV releases as the Warner Archive.

And while I'm still hoping for more from WAC, in the meantime I plan to eventually try Hawkins, Girl from UNCLE, and The FBI.*

*(But I won't try just anything WAC puts out. I think I'll leave the complete Urkel oeuvre to those with stronger stomachs. But congrats to those who enjoy it.)

 

[JamesSmith]

Guys, we might not get anything " big" from WB Archives before the end of the year, but I'm still thinking we will get Colt 45, the Alaskans, Hondo and a few other animated series . . . . eventually. They're just going throw a problematic time right now with older releases. Unexpected costs, music rights and possibly constrained by a budget might be causing some difficulties.

James

 

[Scott511]

No matter how you spell it, VHS cassette is vastly inferior to DVD(and Blu-Ray) and even stored properly, degradation does occur and continues to look worse over time.. I taped the entire run of St. Elsewhere, tried to watch it a while back couldn't get through the second episode. So all that taping I did from the 80's to the mid 90's amounts to nothing but a large waste of time on my part because I will never re-watch anything on video cassette.

I started recording in 1981 on Beta, in 1984 switched to VHS (blank Betas were becoming to hard to find in my area) and stayed with VHS until 2000 I believe when I bought my first DVD recorder. Out of roughly almost 4,000 tapes I've watched over the years all except 3 looked just as I originally recorded them.

Bryan, if you have no serious desire ever to watch your VHS tapes again, I'd be happy to take those off your hands.

 

[Regulus]

I got my first VCR as a Christmas gift in 1984. (I still have an operational VHS VCR, and another one still in its unopened box). I also have a region-free DVD Player and a Blu-ray Player (Holy Schroeder Batman!) .Although I don't fear Lucy getting PO'ed and smashing my Player it's the same reason I have them. If one malfunctions I have a back-up readily available to use in case this happens.

PS. The region-free DVD player has the ability to record, yet if I put in a MOD disk (which are supposed to have a "Copy Protection" feature that's supposed to make them not play on these kind of player), the movies and TV shows play perfectly well.

 

[Frank Soyke]

started taping off air in 83. Mostly syndicated reruns, full blocks of MTV programming, and some current sitcoms. Happy to say, I kept every tape.

 

[Frank Soyke]

The one big mistake I made was editing commercials out during the first year or so till I got smart and realized I may want them one day.

 

[Neil Brock]

The one big mistake I made was editing commercials out during the first year or so till I got smart and realized I may want them one day.

I really only have interest in commercials pre-1975, which was when I graduated HS. Anything after that, I have no interest in and I'm glad that I edited them out.