Is there ANY reason at all to keep my Disney VHSs?

[JaneMccoy]

Where in the flim was the "cut off your ear" line?

it's in the opening song sequence of "Arabian Nights":

Original verse:
Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where they cut off your ear
If they don't like your face
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home


Edited verse:
Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where it's flat and immense
And the heat is intense
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home

[Elladorine]

Where in the flim was the "cut off your ear" line?

As seen in drfsupercenter's signature . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wRIkix_RDI

[Neal]

Heh, turns out I have both the special edition and regular Beauty and the Beast VHSs!

[drfsupercenter]

As seen in drfsupercenter's signature . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wRIkix_RDI

Haha, finally someone refers to that!

I'm actually gonna make a thread soon... I did a "better" de-edit of it that came from the DVD (that one's from a VHS I ripped)...

The original VHS of Beauty and the Beast might still be use keeping, as it's not the messed up IMAX print version.
But that special edition one is pretty useless

[BelleGirl]

Hey BelleGirl, is yours by chance the newishly remastered 1997 Netherlands VHS?
Or is it an older release?

I was looking around some of the fansites and the Netherlands was the newest country to get a VHS release. (Not like I'm interested in ripping one for fan restoration purposes... )

If you mean SOTS, I don't see 'remastered' anywhere on the cover, but the tape is from 1997. I suppose that's the one you meant. How would you rip such a VHS-tape , even if it's not your intention?

[drfsupercenter]

Ah, yeah, that's the one I'm after.

Even if it's not "remastered" per se, it will likely be better looking than the 1980s UK release, simply because it's newer. Those tapes from the 80s have a habit of fading/deteriorating, even if they're not played often.

I was trying to track down one of those 1997 tapes from a Netherlands video website, but it appears most of them only sell DVDs, and I couldn't find one anywhere.

In order to rip a VHS, you'd need a DVD recorder (or tuner for your computer)... I was, of course, being sarcastic when I said it wasn't my intention

[BelleGirl]

In order to rip a VHS, you'd need a DVD recorder (or tuner for your computer)... I was, of course, being sarcastic when I said it wasn't my intention

I know!

[Neal]

Or a codec converter. That's what we use at school. It's just a box that has the A/V red, yellow, white inputs and a firewire/usb output so you can play movies on your computer/import them.

[drfsupercenter]

That's basically a capture card (which is a TV tuner without the ability to tune channels ) with fancy software.

With VHS, though, it looks WAY better when using a DVD recorder, just because it preserves the framerate, capture cards have a tendency to do weird stuff to VHS rips.

[Neal]

Hm, well we seem to have a higher end one. It's a Sony and from 1999 but recently restored over the summer...it cost $500 back then. From my experience, it does 1:1 transfers - no loss of audio or video quality. I've secretly begun to rip the post-2000 Disney shorts to make my own shorts collection DVD. My teacher knows about DRM laws and kind of got on my case over my Disney homage video - so if she knew I was uploading shorts...well...I'll hope it remains my secret.

[drfsupercenter]

Hmm, well the issue is that capture cards usually compress to a certain codec... DVD recorders record in 480i, the exact same speed and quality of a VHS. (Some people argue that VHS is more like 320x240, but technically it doesn't have ANY resolution since it's analog)

I have two TV tuners and I just found that it looks better when using a settop DVD recorder. And that way it's automatically in .VOB format too, so I don't need to convert anything.

[Neal]

Well, as you've probably realized through working with me...I don't know too much about all of this.

For what I'm using it for - media class videos - it works.

But if you say there's better stuff, I'm sure you're right.