TV Update
I said in my last post that I’d put a TV show onto timer record and was anxiously waiting to see if it had worked. Well it did!
I then cut the adverts out and tried and failed to work out the scene selection. I’ll fiddle with that later maybe. Right now I have episodes recording from tape so I’ll get to experiment with another function, video split so I can divide the episodes recorded as one file into separate files. Then maybe depending on how it goes I might even get to record a DVD. Talk about doing the process from start to finish. Whether I do a DVD or not depends on how many episodes I can get onto it.
I haven’t quite got the full third season on tape, the episode I’m missing is airing on Tuesday. I have all of season four bar the episode they refuse to show because it’s rated as violent (it’s really not particularly considering what else they show on daytime). Then I’m missing three episodes from season five that I think were shown but that I just missed for some reason so I’ll get those when they come around again which should be starting in five weeks on the Thursday. I’m missing five episodes from season six but I’ve a funny feeling one or two of those won’t be shown because of sensitive material or something. Then there’s one episode from season seven. I’m also not sure about the quality of my taped copies, I’ve watched them several times and some of them were put on old tapes to begin with so I might try and watch the episodes when I transfer them to see if the quality is noticeably poorer in which case I’ll then record that off the TV for real, which I might just do anyway. I can do that now.
After the Cagney and Lacey episodes I think I’ll do my Diagnosis Murders. That’s starting to come out on DVD now and I’m going to buy it but the ones I have on tape are from the fifth and sixth season and they’re not out yet. Though of course I’ll be thrilled to junk my home copy when it comes out for real they definitely aren’t the best quality. After that I’ll do my Judge John Deed episodes, they’ve been really good about bringing those out, I managed to junk a lot of tapes recently because of it but it won’t hurt until it comes out for real. I’m missing three episodes (or the first half of the season) from season five so when that comes out (soon please) it’ll definitely be bought. Then I have some random episodes of Heartbeat and a couple of New Tricks episodes from Season four which the DVD boxset is due out in October so I might not bother with those.
Once it’s all done I’ll be able to get rid of or do something with over 60 VHS tapes. Thats a lot of tapes and a lot of space which I quite desperately need in my room. Way cool!
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