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Yes... I only recently got a VCR, I also only recently got my own TV... and I got a VCR because at the time the only DVD-RW cost 500 dollars and only lasted for 4 hours on each disc... Fri-Mon can be 9 hours each day. A VCR was and still is the best choice--- well... actually if I could afford a TiVo device, but that's got a monthly payment [the bastards].
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All I know is, the more available DS9 is, the better. TNG was the rebirth . . . DS9 was the culmination. Fuck Voyager.
There for awhile, my Trek fandom was waning, along with my interest in fiction in general. Deep Space Nine reminded me of the possibilities of fiction, and the rewards of it. But beyond that, it reminded me of what Trek was for me, and has become for me again.
As I've been acquiring DS9 on DVD, I've seen things I'd never seen before. DS9 wasn't available in my area after the first or second season, and what little I'd seen since was what a friend was able to snag from satellite feeds almost a decade ago, and what was available online since then. Sure, I'd read episode synopses, transcripts, Jammer's reviews . . . in my quest for tech info, I'd read it all.
But as I've watched the series, I've seen the fulfillment of Trek's potential. Voyager, Enterprise . . . even The Next Generation . . . in my personal opinion, these don't hold a candle to a Cardassian monstrosity and its extraordinary cast of characters.
It's funny, really. My limited exposure to DS9 from back in the day gave me a limited sense of the series. If each series could be said to have a texture and a color to it, then what little I knew of DS9 left it as dark and dingy and brocade. But now that I'm watching it all, I see more. I see the rainbow hues, and can appreciate the depth of that brocade fiber that before seemed so ugly and unfinished. Now I realize it is a tapestry, and a surprisingly beautiful and moving one.
I am a Niner. And, at the moment, a drunken Niner, but that's not important right now. And as I race through my newly-acquired Season Six, I can think of nothing better than the fact that others might come to know DS9 . . . on Spike or anywhere else. Then maybe there will be others who will look at this and understand, instead of just saying "the fuck was he drinking?"
That is all.
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OH! Look for the lone Sabre class starship that manages to survive both the re-taking of the station from the Dominion, but also the battle at Chintoka.
Each time they show it, it's zipping gracefully past all the other starships.
Worth watching in frame-by-frame.
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quote:Originally posted by J: DVD-RW cost 500 dollars and only lasted for 4 hours on each disc... Fri-Mon can be 9 hours each day.
If you're taping 9 hours of TV a day, there is something seriously wrong with you.
How on earth do you find time to watch it?
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Further, how do you tape nine hours? I assume you mean while you're not home. Most standard VHS tapes will only do six, though I THINK I've seen eight.
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two or more tapes... and I was exaggerating... And usually I watch it when nothing else is on, like right now.
PS: I mean, the fact that the computer is right by the TV... watching a 30 min show takes about 20 fast forward through the commercials... and a 1 hr show takes 45 min. Also, I sometimes record stuff I'm already watch, but I just erase it afterwards. It's only recorded in case I'm out.
And don't bash it, while the good shows are on during the weekend, during weekdays it's all crap. So it essentially equals out.
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T-160 tapes will give you up to 8 hours (instead of the usual 6 for T-120 tapes) in SLP/EP (ack!) mode. Far more rare are T-180 tapes, which will give you 9 hours in that mode...
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I've never found a T-180. And while the audio is sometimes iffy, it's rare and usually you would have noticed an audio problem in the live broadcast if my VCR picks it up.
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E180 (as they are called over here) are the most common tapes available in the UK. And they put "3 hours" on them, not "9 hours, if you don't mind the playback looking like absolute shit".
I can't stand LP. SLP would probably cause me to set fire to my eyes, if any of our VCR's supported it. Especially if I'm watching an NTSC tape.
You lot are shit.
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Actually, E180 is not the same as T180, as the tapes run at different speeds (and no, I don't mean SP, LP and EP/SLP, but the speed tied to the 25 or 30 FPS and 625 or 525 lines, respectively), so they are of different (physical) lengths. In fact, an E180 tape is the same as a T120 one... and a T180 would be an E260. Take a look here for further details.
And yes, SLP is awful.
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