I never actually considered the professional option.
I have a dvd recorder with an 80 hour hard drive connected to my tv, which cost me something like $500. I also have over 100 videos of comedy stuff. I keep meaning to transfer it all across onto dvd, if only because the discs would take up MUCH less space than the videos currently do, but money has never been the thing that held me back.
My problems are finding the time to do it all (although I guess it'd be pretty simple to get each recording started, then I could wander off and do other stuff *G*), the fact that my videos are mostly not directly recorded from tv, they're copies of things from other people, so the quality isn't great, and that they're incredibly disorganised mixes of bits and pieces from everywhere (I have a bunch that are hand-me-downs from someone dumping their collection, and I haven't got a clue what's on half of them), and if I'm going to go to the effort to convert them to dvd format, I'd want to do it with some degree of order.
Oh, and the fact that the discs don't hold all that much in video format. 1 hour per disc high quality, 2 hours if you're prepared to put up with a vaguely pixelated look to the video quality. Not that it'd make a lot of difference to some of the recordings I have *G* Some of them are like trying to watch a performance through driving snow *G*
My copies of DAAS Kap aren't bad...comedy channel editions, for the most part, with only a little static and sound flaws at the starts and finishes of episodes, but some of them are missing bits at the start and finish too. I've actually ended up with multiple copies of some episodes, so I might actually have all the footage required to make up a full set of unblemished episodes, but that'd require more video manipulation ability than I currently have *G*
While it would be nice if professional quality copies of the old Dougs stuff was made available now, even if someone with the rights to it wanted to put it out, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the original footage has been lost, and dodgy recordings are all that are left. |