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BarryG · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:00 pm Post subject: Old meets new

I've connected a VCR to my computer and am now watching some of my old VHS tapes, mostly music stuff. Have Fleetwood Mac, the Early Years in now, from when they were a blues band.

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ntruder · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:44 pm Post subject:

Quick! Digitize that stuff before the tape demagnetizes!

BarryG · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject:

You're not wrong. My recordings of old favorite TV shows now have poor quality. It might also have something to do with them not being played on the machine they were recorded with. Factory tapes don't have that problem.

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FelipeT · Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:07 pm Post subject:

It's a good thing that a lot of older shows are now available on DVD. Every time I think of the scores of VHS tapes that my brother has at my parents place of old TV shows that he had recorded off the air, and then think about how much less room an entire season of a show takes up on DVD, I shudder.

I also can't help but think of this girl I went to high school with. Some time ago I ran into her and invited her and her husband over. She explained to me that it would be difficult to find a time that would work because her husband had to be home to record his favorite shows. When I asked why he couldn't just program the VCR, she sighed. Then, they would have the commercials. I knew the answer that was coming, but I asked anyway: why couldn't he just edit out the commercials after-the-fact. You probably guessed it--then that would be a second-generation recording, which would not be as high quality as a first...

So, we have yet to get together. Maybe I should call her. Perhaps her husband has figured out that it's cheaper just to buy the show on DVD. Then again...

But, what really makes me cringe is the amount of time my brother wasted doing exactly the same thing that this guy was doing. Of course, my brother was a kid at the time and probably didn't have anything better that he could have been doing with his time, but still.
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ntruder · Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:11 pm Post subject:

Here's how to get any TV show you want with no commercials:

1. Download uTorrent.

2. Go to EZ TV

3. Find your show on the list.

4. Wait one or two hours after it airs. Download the .torrent file and start it up. Your speed will vary so you may have the show on your drive between 10 minutes and several hours later.

5. Watch the show.

If you plan to do this often you should torrent to a USB drive to spare the wear on your hard disk platters and bearings. I also highly recommend an external hard drive you can store the downloaded shows on rather than burning DVDs or (gag) CDs.

This season I'm watching Eureka, which I think has 1 episode left, Fringe, which is like the X-Files minus the sucking, and Smallville, only because I've watched all 8 other seasons so I gotta finish watching it. Superman can sure jump a lot of sharks in a single bound.

FelipeT · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 6:36 am Post subject: