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Post by hike'em'up on Jul 9, 2022 14:23:34 GMT -5
Thats too bad, I really depended on that site to fill in the blanks of my collection. Not that I've counted but I probably wound up purchasing over 100 episodes from CheesyFlix.
All the good things are gone.
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Post by cavedweller on Oct 5, 2022 22:20:10 GMT -5
I have every KTMA episode except oo3, but unfortunately they are on dvd and I don't know how to do transfers. Great quality also.
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Post by comedyc on Oct 6, 2022 13:24:01 GMT -5
use Handbrake or MakeMKV
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Post by BoB3K on Oct 14, 2022 12:11:49 GMT -5
or just find a b i t t o r r e n t, use it, and then just pretend you used handbrake on your copy.
I've done that with other things, like I have the entire Cinematic Titanic collection on DVD directly from the late great CT (which means i have the silly signed cards and one of my DVDs is signed). But since then, I've attained the entire library as DVD rips so I can watch them streaming around my house from hard drive.
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Post by Prisoner416 on Apr 15, 2024 21:17:03 GMT -5
Super late to this one. Hopefully people that bought the unavailable stuff back in the day might share it somehow at some future point. I know I wanted a few of those rough cuts and other bits and bobs that'll never see a proper channel. Hell, I'm still waiting for a proper copy of Delta Knights.
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Post by Udvarnoky on Apr 16, 2024 8:43:00 GMT -5
The official version of DELTA KNIGHTS has a number of hallmarks - and it's not the only episode with them - of being sourced from an nth generation dub. In such cases I'd be interested to know if this is a result of the master tape being missing/damaged or if they simply grabbed the first copy of the episode they found on the shelf. In the case of BOGGY CREEK II, it appears to me that Rhino had access to the master tape for their transfer, while the Shout! version looks sourced from a dub -- it is very comparable to the look of DELTA KNIGHTS (as is THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, INVASION OF THE NEPTUNE MEN, and a couple others). And DELTA KNIGHTS also has the curiosity of having a riff in it that was evidently replaced at the last second for the broadcast version. So it isn't even quite the finalized episode.
One of the more fascinating extras that has ever appeared on a DVD release are the outtakes that are included in Vol. 3. There's nothing particularly amusing about them that would have earned their place in a blooper reel -- they are, simply and drily, blown or unused takes. And because they're included for all the episodes in that collection, it suggests that - at least twenty years ago - the raw shoot tapes still existed for many of the episodes. It just begs the question of what Shout! actually got turned over to them when they acquired BBI's library, especially in light of the inconsistent quality of the official releases. Did Mallon hand off absolutely everything he had? Did stuff get lost or deteriorate under his watch in the decades that preceded the buyout? Was stuff just that badly labeled and disorganized? I know these questions are oft-asked in relation to the KTMA episodes, but even for the extant episodes I think the question of what the inventory looks like is at least as relevant. Do they have multiple copies of each episode, and sometimes even the shoot tapes? Did they digitize everything they were given for preservation and to keep options open in the future?
The value of having the shoot tapes is it would given them a first-generation source of all the video footage in the event that the master tape (or whatever they're transferring from) has issues. For example, the chewed up frames in the master tape of LOST CONTINENT could be seamlessly replaced if that element survived. Between all the volumes of TOM SERVO'S FAVORITE HOST SEGMENTS!, they should have a decent second source for pretty much all the host segments.
Then there are the transfers that have issues that appear to be unrelated to the source. There's Shout!'s overly darkened PRINCE OF SPACE disc, for example. The audio in DIABOLIK is mixed too loudly - there is distortion throughout - that I would suppose occurred in the transfer or optimization process. Perhaps if it was a digitally released episode, Shout! would have bothered to correct it, but as one of the episodes licensed from a major studio it's only available as a disc release, so there's really no incentive for Shout! to give it another crack. It's unfortunate, but I'd be much more comforted to know that this stuff happened out of carelessness or budgetary restrictions than because they don't actually have the assets to deliver better than we sometimes see.
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Post by CrowTrobotfan92 on Apr 16, 2024 18:58:12 GMT -5
I think a lot of the tape deterioration honestly was nothing more than Jim Mallon’s pure carelessness with the tapes - he wasn’t exactly much of a trustworthy business man, and from what I know, the tapes were only then fully digitized once fans started venting about the master tape conditions for both “Lost Continent” and “Beast of Yucca Flatts” on volume 18 but take this with a grain of salt.
But honestly I feel like Shout Factory only got even MORE careless with their MST material by 2015 - constantly forgetting to include the MST hour wraps (I’d say we were VERY lucky we even got the wraps for “I Accuse My Parents” or those would have pretty much been lost forever), losing many of the KTMAs (K03 unfortunately being one of them), using online videos as video sources for re-releasing episode (“The Sidehackers” being a massively good example), etc.
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Post by Prisoner416 on Apr 17, 2024 23:24:05 GMT -5
Well.. I did a search and... looks like my ex stole the missing episodes I had from Cheesyflix. Not sure if I'm allowed to made the obvious inquiry here or not...
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