On Fri 01 Feb, Thomas Touzimsky wrote:
Well, but that would require that we take the clips from original tapes rather than mpeg copies that are not the state-of-the-art quality (mostly to save space, though....)
Be careful what you say there. DVD *is* MPEG. Just a better MPEG (and with less compression) than VCD uses. The K-Front CD-Rs that Marek was making were using quality comparable to VCD.
I know - what I tried to point out is... whoever will encode all this stuff, he should use original tapes instead of the K-Front avi's and mpeg's, since they are sometimes not as clear as they would be on original VHS tape. Sorry for any misunderstandings. :-)
Sounds like, despite Marek's disappearance, listmembers still have good copies of most of the KLF material (I have a good copy of KSTJ but I think somebody else already mentioned that). Although some people are maybe going to think twice before eagerly sending off their videos this time...
So for those TOTP appearances... BBC told me I should ask their Archive, so I guess it is possible to get all those on a tape for personal use (they wouldnt have given me the adress if it would be impossible anyway...). Got the adress here, got to find the time for a nice letter.
It won't be impossible, but it may cost- and it may cost a lot- the kind of sums that are feasible for other TV companies but out of the range of most hobbyists who just missed a programme and would like to see it again. And if you don't have a business reason for asking (for example "I want to use a clip in the BBC-commissioned documentary I am making" or "I am going to pay you a large sum of money in order to be able to use your clip on ITV") then they may just laugh at you (in a very BBC-style way, so you can't hear them). And "personal reasons" will be a very transparent excuse, and "I want to bootleg it and rip off the BBC's property" is not advised either... And on a different note from another e-mail, cleaning up digital video prints of film footage to remove artifaces of the conversion is another thing that *can* be done, but you're not going to find a friendly professional production house who've got the set-up to do it but who'll spend hours of their time doing it for nothing, or indeed, less than a lot. Stuart. -- Stuart Bruce - klf@atomiser.demon.co.uk or preferably stuart@atomiser.demon.co.uk The Utah Saints Mailing List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/utahsaints/