Knightmare on VHS
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Hi there- I'm glad a topic has arisen about Knightmare on VHS- I did discuss it about four months ago, but have been unable to log on. VHS is the simply the best! After all, when Hugo Myatt was Treguard, he would not have had a clue what DVD was- it is the true Knighmare era format! It is cheaper than DVD, and tape quality is usually fine, if tapes are looked after. I think the petition is a great idea, but it is exluding people without video disc players- I am not saying that we should get silly and demand Betamax aswell- but at the end of the day DVD is not universal... and who knows, maybe it will go the same way as Video2000. Good luck with the petition! And can we tape videos for each other, if people have double VCR decks- maybe, it is illegal- I don't know?
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...And can we tape videos for each other, if people have double VCR decks- maybe, it is illegal- I don't know?
Some of us had a big debate about that sort of thing last night on the following thread
http://www.talkknightmare.co.uk/forum/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=4;action=display;num=1072984641
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I'm sure there was a massive piracy debate months and months ago, when i first joined the forum.
There was also a big debate about VHS vs DVD, with Keiran backing VHS very strongly.
I believe the idea of focussing on a DVD release was because DVD's are a lot cheaper to manufacture in small quantities.
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well either would be great, I would prefer a DVD but a VHS would do nicely providing it had Knightmare on it! People get too carried away with special features on DVDs when in fact I have only seen 2 or 3 with good special features (LOTR Trilogy, Pirates of the carribean and Red Dwarf DVDs)
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Well, I think in fairness the reason many of us backed DVD and not VHS at this specific point in time was because it was Granada themseves who said it was only the advent of DVD that made a commercial release viable at all. However, Tim Child pointed out they still weren't sure of the market, so we decided to pursue the DVD case on its own to give some evidence there was a market for that- hence the DVD petition. Including VHS in that petition would, as I have said before, made that evidence of a possible market more confused.
As I've also said before, there's absolutely nothing stopping anyone taking up the VHS cause just like others of us did with DVD. I personally think you'll have a harder time convincing Granada of the viability of that, given their comments, but anyone can try and thus prove me wrong.
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Well, if I had a few million pounds in my pocket, I'd probably include things like this:
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'Making Of' documentary, including interviews with cast/crew and so on
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Dolby Digital 5.1 mix of original soundtrack
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Original CITV/Sci-Fi/Challenge links & trailers
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Behind the scenes footage
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Both pilots
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Photo gallery
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VT Clocks (Maybe as an easter egg)
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I agree that VHS is easier with having a video player and not having to buy a DVD player, but thats the same issue with anything? You go and buy a new film either in VHS and risk it wearing with age or getting demaganitised, or you buy a DVD and you get a perfect image for ever and extras etc, plus DVD players are getting cheeper, if not as cheap as a vcr! (the cheapest VCR i saw in argos was 60 quid, and a decent DVD player can cost around 60 70 quid). Plus with DVD writers for PC's DVD's are proberley cheaper to make
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