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Post by Natalie Sinead on Jan 12, 2023 17:28:32 GMT
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Post by John Wall on Jan 12, 2023 17:38:18 GMT
If Space Pirates were to be completed, or a couple more episodes were recovered, it’d make a BluRay release much easier👍
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Post by andyparting on Jan 12, 2023 18:35:01 GMT
When can we expect an update? Need some good news, as having a torrid time with missing-Who lately. I got the Season 10 Blu-ray reissue yesterday, and all the Planet of the Daleks extermination FX have wiped from it, consigned to the landfill it seems. Sending the box back tomorrow, hoping to have better luck with the first issue Blu-ray having them at £80-£100 a pop on eBay. Pausing my viewing to refer to those shots on YouTube meanwhile www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDrNREGT9lM
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jan 13, 2023 1:15:03 GMT
If (at this stage still a big if) off-air video of the missing Space Pirates and Invasion episodes are found in the Melbourne stash, technically they'd be reel to reel video recordings of 625 line broadcasts from 16mm film telerecordings. Even if Melbourne Man used the best equipment available for private purchase, they'd be below "broadcast quality". In other words, a bit fuzzy. But they might be good enough after restoration to make watchable extras on future DVD releases of Season Six. Like the domestic format recording of "Secrets" by Palin and Jones that they included as an extra on the Ripping Yarns DVD set. BluRay wouldn't help unless a programme was made on film. Unlike film, 625 line video can't have high definition extracted from it.
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Post by Natalie Sinead on Jan 13, 2023 6:21:05 GMT
Sue Butcher Richard Bignella complete Season 6 would still be something. I think Aron has said that Melbourne Man's *audio* recordings look to be *massive* - so, if nothing else, as a result of Melbourne Man, we will now have soundtracks for a LOT of missing TV and radio that was shown and heard in Australia. (and Oz originated missing ones, too)
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jan 13, 2023 7:00:58 GMT
A complete Troughton season would be wonderful! I'd like to see Space Pirates again even if the vision isn't very good, but if we just get good quality audio for this serial, it will be an improvement. And there's this big gap in Australian TV history from about 1972 to 1980, when TV channels stopped transferring local shows to 16mm film for distribution but very few people have home video recorders.
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Post by Natalie Sinead on Jan 13, 2023 7:14:38 GMT
Aron said on social media that thousands of missing commercials will be recovered because of Melbourne Man.
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Post by stephen macpherson on Jan 13, 2023 10:01:55 GMT
Fingers crossed 🤞 there are some missing episodes of the serial drama Number 96 amongst the collection.
Stephen
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Post by RWels on Jan 13, 2023 10:42:57 GMT
Melbourne Man sounds like some 60,000 year old fossilised bone that proves the missing link between Homo Habilis and modern man.
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Post by Natalie Sinead on Jan 13, 2023 11:13:14 GMT
From the treasures that Aron says Melbourne Man has left us, the guy was not Piltdown Man.
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Post by RWels on Jan 13, 2023 20:46:32 GMT
And when they found his remains and analysed them, it turned out he was very much ahead of his time in adapting new technology. From the treasures that Aron says Melbourne Man has left us, the guy was not Piltdown Man. No, he was a real Melbourne Man, sitting in his Melbourne land. He must have been rolling in it though. Buying umatic tapes by the dozens for one time use back then.
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jan 13, 2023 23:58:54 GMT
In the Eighties I had a Sony VO-2600 U-Matic recorder, bought for $30 at a Government auction. But it was only Low-Band, with not much better vision than VHS, and it weighed a ton. It didn't seem worth keeping. Which means I'm left with three big U-Matic tapes that I can't watch at all. These days, functioning machines are very expensive to buy even though very few people use them. But not as expensive as they were new!
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Post by RWels on Jan 14, 2023 17:16:31 GMT
In the Eighties I had a Sony VO-2600 U-Matic recorder, bought for $30 at a Government auction. But it was only Low-Band, with not much better vision than VHS, and it weighed a ton. It didn't seem work keeping. Which means I'm left with three big U-Matic tapes that I can't watch at all. These days, functioning machines are very expensive to buy even though very few people use them. But not as expensive as they were new! That must have been a really good deal...! There are enough people who can still play them, if there's anything really interesting on your tapes.
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jan 15, 2023 0:00:34 GMT
AFAIK the recordings are productions I worked on, and most of them are shorts made by film students, but I think there's a couple of early 80s children's programmes from ABC Perth there. I didn't bother to label the tapes properly. I'm set up to play VHS again, so once I've checked through those, I'll get a quote for copying the U-Matics.
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Post by Sue Butcher on Jan 15, 2023 2:23:10 GMT
(Apologies for an off-topic aside for Australian members, but one of the U-Matic tapes is "Here In The West - Spare Parts Puppet Theatre", from 1984. I think I have a couple more episodes of HITW on VHS, including the Dalek one. HITW was a children's magazine programme hosted by Peter Holland, if you haven't heard of it.)
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