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With my new computer I got a Hauppage Personal Video Recorder/Tuner for the PC....my goal is to have every single episode recorded, and burned onto its very own video CD....a loft goal...but one that I am determined to accomplish :)
 
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Deeko

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I already have the first two...but they are expensive, and they wait waaay too long between seasons, at this rate I will have them all on DVD when I am 87 years old :)
 
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SirDante

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it's already been done. how's the rip quality btw? i broke down and bought a terapin vcd recorder....:(
 
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I started doing exactly that when the local station running syndication announced they were playing the Simpsons in order. I missed a few here and there because of other things that came up during the 6 o'clock timeslot, so I wasnt home to capture it.

I stopped around season 9, when IMO the series started to really fall off.

Im slowly replacing them with the DVDs, but they havent quite kept up with their "2 seasons a year" boast from a while back. They havent even done a season per year. Im sure Ill get through season 8 by the next decade...

BTW-I recorded straight to MPEG1 at a high bitrate, each episode came out to around 2GB with commercials. That way there was no visible quality loss from the compression. I then converted that to DivX, and each episode (minus commercials) ran about 200MB.
 
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neomits

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I've got em all. I spent my first year of college looking for them all and downloading them.

Now granted they aren't as good a quality as a single episode per disc but thats 200+ CDRs you're talking about.

And plus I don't think syndication runs all the episodes.
 
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ObiDon

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my goal is to have every single episode recorded, and burned onto its very own video CD
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You're going to be a very busy person for the first few months until they start repeating episodes. I started doing this about 1-1/2 years ago and I'm still missing 30 or 40 that they haven't shown since I started even though they show 2 a day.

Sometimes I notice scenes missing from the sydicated episodes, too. I don't know why they do that. :confused:
 
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virusag11

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I was doing that with my ATI AIW Radeon 8500dv. I would set the recorder to recorder everyday in mpeg 1 and then burn them to DVD and watch them that way, but then I just bought the dvds. So now I have 100 episodes on DVD I captured myself (with commercials, I am to lazy to edit).
 
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Thegonagle

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Originally posted by: ObiDon
my goal is to have every single episode recorded, and burned onto its very own video CD
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You're going to be a very busy person for the first few months until they start repeating episodes. I started doing this about 1-1/2 years ago and I'm still missing 30 or 40 that they haven't shown since I started even though they show 2 a day.

Sometimes I notice scenes missing from the sydicated episodes, too. I don't know why they do that. :confused:
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I've noticed that too. I beleive the stations do that to fit an extra comercial or two in per show. The station here often shortens the opening intro to under 10 seconds. It goes from "The Simpsons" straight to the garage, then the couch. And don't even get me started on Homer falling down the cliff a second time. When I saw that first run, I doubt I had ever laughed so hard. When I saw it in syndication, they cut it! How do they think it wouldn't be nothced. I've noticed other cuts, too.

I've also noticed an edit here and there. Like when Milhouse found the diseased monkey in the wicker basket, I can swear that in the first run episode, Milhouse told Bart that they got the basket from Pier 1. In re-runs, he says it was from Trader Pete. I think Pier 1 might have been a little upset. I could have also heard it completely wrong all those years ago. :eek:

I also haven't seen the Homer vs. New York episode in over a year. I don't know how long that will take to get back into the syndication circuit.

EDIT: I've found out by searching the net that I'm not the only person who heard them say Pier 1. So I'm not crazy.
 
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neomits

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Originally posted by: Garfang
Originally posted by: ObiDon
my goal is to have every single episode recorded, and burned onto its very own video CD
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You're going to be a very busy person for the first few months until they start repeating episodes. I started doing this about 1-1/2 years ago and I'm still missing 30 or 40 that they haven't shown since I started even though they show 2 a day.

Sometimes I notice scenes missing from the sydicated episodes, too. I don't know why they do that. :confused:
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I've noticed that too. I beleive the stations do that to fit an extra comercial or two in per show. The station here often shortens the opening intro to under 10 seconds. It goes from "The Simpsons" straight to the garage, then the couch. And don't even get me started on Homer falling down the cliff a second time. When I saw that first run, I doubt I had ever laughed so hard. When I saw it in syndication, they cut it! How do they think it wouldn't be nothced. I've noticed other cuts, too.

I've also noticed an edit here and there. Like when Milhouse found the diseased monkey in the wicker basket, I can swear that in the first run episode, Milhouse told Bart that they got the basket from Pier 1. In re-runs, he says it was from Trader Pete. I think Pier 1 might have been a little upset. I could have also heard it completely wrong all those years ago. :eek:

I also haven't seen the Homer vs. New York episode in over a year. I don't know how long that will take to get back into the syndication circuit.
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Yeah they do cut out parts and also the intro is cut to like 10 seconds too. They know that syndicate simpsons is one of the most popular shows during that time so they get as much commercial time in as possible. Stupid networks. But we get 3 episodes per day so I get my simpsons fill :p
 
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KeyserSoze

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I've got every Seinfeld as mpeg. All specials, and everything. It's good for those times when you want to see just one clip.

I was just watching the episode where Kramer becomes a Horse Carriage driver. And he has those Chinese tourists in his carriage, he's driving through Central Park, and says "And here...we have Central Park. Built in 1815 by Joe Peppetone, so the Northern Armies could practice fighting.....on grass. Oh yeah." HAHAHAHAHAHA

I support you on your mission, and GodSpeed.



KeyserSoze
 
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LaBang

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I have maybe more than half of the Simpsons episodes that I got from a girl who in Freshman year tried to download them all. OH and I'd love some Seinfeld's.
 
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ObiDon

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Originally posted by: stev0
Originally posted by: fluxquantum
Howbout rent the dvds and rip em or buy em rip em and sell the dvds.
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heh heh.
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that would probably be the fastest and easiest way to do it :)
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Maybe easier but probably not faster. At the current DVD release rate of ~1 season per year, they will never catch up. Vid cappers will always be ahead! :p
 
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UNCjigga

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Originally posted by: KeyserSoze
I've got every Seinfeld as mpeg. All specials, and everything. It's good for those times when you want to see just one clip.

I was just watching the episode where Kramer becomes a Horse Carriage driver. And he has those Chinese tourists in his carriage, he's driving through Central Park, and says "And here...we have Central Park. Built in 1815 by Joe Peppetone, so the Northern Armies could practice fighting.....on grass. Oh yeah." HAHAHAHAHAHA

I support you on your mission, and GodSpeed.

KeyserSoze
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BEEFARONI!!!

 
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Smolek

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cool, but your gonna need a helluva lot of space to hold them. Arent they almost up to like 300 episdoes?
 
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Shagger

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as much as I love the Simpsons - I'll just wait for the DVD's.

as far as Seinfeld goes - ONE of my favorite scenes is when Kramer is driving the busbecause his girlfriend gets her toe chopped off and the mugger attacks the bus driver!

Kramer - "Then the mugger, he comes to and starts chokin' me!" "So here I am fightin' him off with one hand and drivin' the bus with the other!"
George - "You're Batman!"
Kramer - "I AM Batman!"
 
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