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Liar Lyre posted:Since it looks like most of the Lowtax/SA drama died down, I’m just gonna dump another link to the new Discord. Come complain about Severin some more! Lmao, Lowtax is going on an MRA podcast Sunday to defend himself
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Origami Dali posted:Anyone in here have experience converting VHS tapes to digital? I'm looking at converters and they all look like flimsy garbage. I’m also very interested in this question and agree all the ones I can find look like poo poo.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 00:08 |
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WSAWZ1M/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_JhO9EbEEBJ3H8 Bought this a few years ago to copy family VHS tapes. Took me awhile to find one that worked in Linux. It worked great for me, though you have to have a good working VCR too.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 00:18 |
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Iron Crowned posted:Lmao, Lowtax is going on an MRA podcast Sunday to defend himself Hopefully he doesn’t like collecting blu-rays. I can require two-factor authentication to join if that’d make everyone feel safer.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 00:49 |
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Egbert Souse posted:Really only When the Wind Blows interests me, so might as well save the energy and money for the B&N Criterion sale Is that the mega-depressing animated movie about the elderly British couple caught up in a nuclear apocalypse?
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 01:22 |
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Xenomrph posted:Is that the mega-depressing animated movie about the elderly British couple caught up in a nuclear apocalypse? Yep
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 01:26 |
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Still think it’s funny that it’s on the Severin Kids sub-label.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 01:30 |
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Origami Dali posted:Anyone in here have experience converting VHS tapes to digital? I'm looking at converters and they all look like flimsy garbage. I've used stand-alone DVD recorders over the years. You can find them for about $50 (plus shipping) on ebay. They record at 480p but I've gotten pretty decent results. Of course, you'll need video editing software afterward. Avoid the DVD/VHS combo units.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 01:45 |
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Liar Lyre posted:Still think it’s funny that it’s on the Severin Kids sub-label. Upcoming releases include Plague Dogs and Watership Down
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 01:54 |
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I never really felt like Mallrats looked much better in HD then it did on that excellent 1998 DVD. Curious what the "restoration" looks like.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 02:39 |
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Boywhiz88 posted:Still need to grab Clerks on BD. Looks like it's hard to get ahold of now. It's too bad because the 15th anniversary Blu-ray was great. It contained all(?) the special features of the Clerks X 3-dvd set and could be bought for <$10. I can find things to enjoy in Mallrats but I think Clerks is the only Kevin Smith film that I would actually call a very good movie.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 02:57 |
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Liar Lyre posted:Since it looks like most of the Lowtax/SA drama died down, I’m just gonna dump another link to the new Discord. Come complain about Severin some more! Looks like the discord invite has expired.
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wa27 posted:Looks like it's hard to get ahold of now. It's too bad because the 15th anniversary Blu-ray was great. It contained all(?) the special features of the Clerks X 3-dvd set and could be bought for <$10. The Mallrats TV version is the funniest movie with his name on it.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 04:56 |
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Xenomrph posted:Looks like the discord invite has expired. Try this.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 04:59 |
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Severin sale live again, and surprise surprise, it's useless
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 05:06 |
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You are a gentleman and a scholar.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 05:29 |
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Origami Dali posted:Anyone in here have experience converting VHS tapes to digital? I'm looking at converters and they all look like flimsy garbage. I have a friend that does this. What do you want to know?
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 05:32 |
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Origami Dali posted:Severin sale live again, and surprise surprise, it's useless lol I just tried one more time before going to sleep and got the DDoS protection message again
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 06:13 |
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CPL593H posted:I have a friend that does this. What do you want to know? I'm a different poster, but is there a good consumer-level device for making digital files from VHS? Everything on amazon seems cheap and unreliable.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 06:18 |
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I'm a different poster, but is there a good consumer-level device for making digital files from VHS? He doesn't use any kind of device or machine. It's some kind of adapter that plugs into his computer and captures the video with software. It doesn't seem like anything too elaborate and I know it works well because he's done more VHS to DVD transfers with that thing than I could even begin to guess. I'm going to ask him about it in the day time.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 06:28 |
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CPL593H posted:He doesn't use any kind of device or machine. It's some kind of adapter that plugs into his computer and captures the video with software. It doesn't seem like anything too elaborate and I know it works well because he's done more VHS to DVD transfers with that thing than I could even begin to guess. I'm going to ask him about it in the day time. It's almost certainly some sort of VTR setup using FireWire.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 06:29 |
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They make plenty of rca/s-video to USB adapters that let you hook up your vcr and capture the output via software. I was just asking if there was a particular recommended adapter since they all look like cheap crap and have a fair amount of reviews calling them cheap crap.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 06:32 |
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Timby posted:It's almost certainly some sort of VTR setup using FireWire. Probably? I'll get the specifics from him because this is a thing he's doing constantly. I'm not even exaggerating when I say that if he's at home he's doing this.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 06:32 |
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https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1401565-REG/atomos_atomnjav01_ninja_v_5_4k.html Just spend $500 and you can record anything off a screen. ANYTHING.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 06:50 |
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So Pitch Black is coming to UHD. Anyone else hyped?
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 07:25 |
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TheScott2K posted:I never really felt like Mallrats looked much better in HD then it did on that excellent 1998 DVD. Curious what the "restoration" looks like. The current HD editions are typical of the kind of garbage that Universal was putting out for a long time. I'm sure it can get a LOT better than that.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 08:37 |
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Origami Dali posted:Severin sale live again, and surprise surprise, it's useless It sounds like they keep upgrading their DDoS protection but not upgrading their bandwidth.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 12:37 |
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VoodooXT posted:It sounds like they keep upgrading their DDoS protection but not upgrading their bandwidth. I'm assuming whoever they're paying to deal with bandwidth is conning them. "Oh what? Well you guys paid for the super-duper server bundle, so... It must be a DDoS! Yeah, that's the ticket!" They've resorted to just having people E-mail them with what they want to order. The whole thing now has a "Kramer running Moviefone" vibe to it.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 13:48 |
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quote:Well despite our best efforts and money put into upgrading the site in the past few weeks, it's hosed. Until traffic and refreshing subsides apparently the site will not function. Our host is suggesting DDOS again but, whatever it is, it ain’t working. So here’s what we suggest if you want to order from the sale tonight: Why the hell wouldn't they just postpone the sale until they sort out their website instead of making people go through the clusterfuck of ordering through email and just taking a wild guess as to what's in stock? What a complete joke.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 14:42 |
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I think all the USB to RCA adapters are cheap Chinese crap, but they'll probably work. If you need something more reliable you'll have to go with an internal capture card or something.
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CPL593H posted:Why the hell wouldn't they just postpone the sale until they sort out their website instead of making people go through the clusterfuck of ordering through email and just taking a wild guess as to what's in stock? What a complete joke. Hahahaha wow. I noticed the sale went up an hour early last night and I was able to sneak in another tiny order of 2 movies that still took about 40 minutes to complete. Processing orders by email now is going to be an absolute disaster.
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 15:41 |
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Severin has had sales before, how did they gently caress up this bad?
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 17:17 |
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Honestly, I can't think of a bigger fart fail of a sale than the current Severin one. They had titles on their site hours before the sale, and I bought them, only to have the money refunded an hour later and I received a somewhat snarky email about buying them early. I was just making sure my account had my correct shipping address, and noticed the titles were available. Since then, the site has been down almost the entire time, they've made up silly excuses about this, and have been having bashing some of their customers via social media. I really liked what Severin were doing, but right now I'm kind of done with them. This will change the moment they announce the Laura Gender Emmanuelle boxset, of course.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I'm a different poster, but is there a good consumer-level device for making digital files from VHS? Okay so it turns out my friend thinks his setup kinda sucks and he's just too lazy to gently caress with getting something better. This is his exact answer to that question: quote:Ugh I don't even know. I use Roxio VHS to DVD but it's pretty terrible. I've been meaning to buy another one. I'm not entirely surprised by this. Boinks posted:I think all the USB to RCA adapters are cheap Chinese crap, but they'll probably work. If you need something more reliable you'll have to go with an internal capture card or something. Everything is Chinese made crap. Big Mean Jerk posted:Hahahaha wow. I noticed the sale went up an hour early last night and I was able to sneak in another tiny order of 2 movies that still took about 40 minutes to complete. Processing orders by email now is going to be an absolute disaster. That is a level of patience I will never have. I was only going to maybe impulse but that Penelope Spheeris movie they have so really I'm just amused at watching how badly they botched this whole thing. I can't wrap my mind around why they haven't just said they're going to do the sale later when they unfuck their website. That might somehow be the dumbest part of this whole thing, which is no small feat.
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 01:54 |
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At this point I’d rather order from Diabolik and pay full price just to avoid the hassle.
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 02:30 |
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I already forgot the discount for this sale. Is it 50%?
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CPL593H posted:I already forgot the discount for this sale. Is it 50%? on titles older than 6 months, yes. plus the exclusive limited stuff. I spent the money I was going to spend during the sale at my local record store instead, I wasn't super excited about any of the new releases anyway. I'll order from them some time in the future when they get their site working again.
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 04:36 |
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CPL593H posted:I already forgot the discount for this sale. Is it 50%? 50% stuff not released in the last 6 months.
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# ? Jun 28, 2020 04:36 |
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As someone who missed this clusterfuck the first time around, would definitely appreciate if anyone in this thread would post when and if the sale comes back online. Diabolik is one I've been holding out on forever.
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I bought: The Beast Must Die The Uncanny Asylum Count Dracula And Now The Screaming Starts The Changeling But only because most of those have been on my wish list at full price for over a year. I don’t think I’ll bother with Severin’s own site after this, I’d rather just pay full retail on Diabolik or something than deal with this poo poo again. Really make me appreciate Vinegar Syndrome even more since I was able to buy 16 titles with zero issue 30 minutes after their big sale started.
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