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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Jul 29, 2023 20:45:20 GMT
Ever thought what would be lost if Google / YouTube went belly up? Good point. The VHS tapes from which many of these poor quality transfers come have probably been binned already in many cases. So they're already some way along the road to extinction. Interesting point yes if YT were to disapear. But on the plus side its certain that anything of interest on there will have been downloaded multiple times so there will be more copies out there than before.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Jul 29, 2023 21:19:36 GMT
Well, it's also the same when stuff disappears from youtube - a case in point is that a 1980 edition of an ATV programme called Something Different (the one featuring Sir Cliff and Mensi from the Angelic Upstarts) disappeared from youtube. Luckily my mate Chris Dabbs captured it for me, and ironically it was only yesterday I discovered it was not on youtube any longer and I got a copy sent by file to Kaleidoscope. The copy is in monochrome, but, better than nothing.
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Post by George D on Jul 29, 2023 21:46:24 GMT
A system to preserve YouTube finds with multiple people would be useful
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Post by garygraham on Aug 1, 2023 3:56:45 GMT
It's worth mentioning that few videos on YouTube are anywhere near the quality that could potentially be copied from the original VHS tape. Video may be at 25 frames per second progressive and transferred on a knackered old VCR with a cheapo Chinese capture device or a DVD recorder. A common issue is muffled linear audio which could probably be fixed with the turn of a screwdriver.
You realise this when you see a relatively uncompressed transfer made using a good VCR st 50i or even upscaled to 960x720 50p.
That isn't to take away anything from the great people who are finding things.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Aug 1, 2023 12:52:00 GMT
It's worth mentioning that few videos on YouTube are anywhere near the quality that could potentially be copied from the original VHS tape. Video may be at 25 frames per second progressive and transferred on a knackered old VCR with a cheapo Chinese capture device or a DVD recorder. A common issue is muffled linear audio which could probably be fixed with the turn of a screwdriver. You realise this when you see a relatively uncompressed transfer made using a good VCR st 50i or even upscaled to 960x720 50p. That isn't to take away anything from the great people who are finding things. True. On occasions I'm sent stuff in better quality, but it's fairly rare.
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Post by robkeeley on Feb 13, 2024 10:46:11 GMT
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Feb 18, 2024 1:26:45 GMT
Only by four days! I mentioned this over on Social Media, but not here (because it's easier to post all my 'discoveries' in one monthly list and I don't want to post pretty much daily here and annoy everyone....), but that said, yes, a missing one!!!!
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Post by Pete Morris on Feb 18, 2024 7:08:11 GMT
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Feb 18, 2024 14:06:25 GMT
It's mentioned in my post of February 2nd 2024.... ""You know, sometimes I'm lucky enough to spot Missing Episodes without looking for them. Here's one of those examples.... So whilst rolling a medicinal cheroot and quaffing Lidl's finest Espresso Macchiato, I ambled upon my 'suggested' on youtube and lo-and-behold I have raggedly stumbled upon the missing Going for Gold Series 3 Final (08/03/1990), from a BBC Scotland transmission (preceded by part of an episode of Neighbours, but, hey-ho) and only uploaded in the wee hours. Anyway, here it is:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=23fwY5XUImg ""
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Post by Pete Morris on Feb 18, 2024 19:29:17 GMT
And the other four? Did you already spot them?
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Feb 18, 2024 20:44:23 GMT
And the other four? Did you already spot them? The first one is episode 22, so it's not the lost SE01 E21. The second one is episode 26, so it's not the lost SE01 E27. The third one is episode 32, so it's not the lost SE01 E31. The fourth one is episode 37, so it's not the lost SE01 E36. I saw them all but none are lost.
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Post by Pete Morris on Feb 19, 2024 2:39:51 GMT
Okay, but TV brain lists 32 & 37 as missing, and doesn't list 31 or 36 as missing. Is it wrong? The second one claims to be missing episode 28, which is listed as missing on TVbrain. I said 26 in error. Is it mislabeled? And here's one that claims to be ep41, which again is listed as missing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxZWem8xP2A
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Post by tonyrees on Feb 19, 2024 8:57:51 GMT
I'm pretty clueless about Missing stuff, but here's a site called Made In Maidstone www.youtube.com/@madeinmaidstone-xt5tn/videos which has only recently appeared and it has a lot of (presumably) TVS shows, No 73, It's A Mystery, On Safari, Highway, Dramarama etc.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Feb 19, 2024 10:24:40 GMT
I'm pretty clueless about Missing stuff, but here's a site called Made In Maidstone www.youtube.com/@madeinmaidstone-xt5tn/videos which has only recently appeared and it has a lot of (presumably) TVS shows, No 73, It's A Mystery, On Safari, Highway, Dramarama etc. I know who the uploader is.
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Post by Stuart Douglas on Feb 19, 2024 11:14:51 GMT
I'm pretty clueless about Missing stuff, but here's a site called Made In Maidstone www.youtube.com/@madeinmaidstone-xt5tn/videos which has only recently appeared and it has a lot of (presumably) TVS shows, No 73, It's A Mystery, On Safari, Highway, Dramarama etc. I know who the uploader is. I just watched this missing Dramarama: youtu.be/kCi2WlBnEOQbecause of you, Ray - between this, the episode of Lulu's Party and all of Champagne on Ice, you really are knocking them out the park this month!
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