i mentioned this in another post, that anyone with a laptop computer and a webcam and microphone (if they had yahoo msngr and added people to their buddy list)could do a webcast from the festival. with the video restrictions it would be shut down for sure but not sure about audio.

i too have a dvd recorder but i choose to purchase the entire series on dvd. i have the entire collectors series on vhs and all the other episodes either from mpi or recorded off the new jersey network. the quality of the dvds purchased from mpi look so perfect especially in the color episodes. they look far superior than the vhs releases or any tv/cable broadcast. i too notice that anything recorded or copied on dvd does seem to improve the picture quality but nothing compares to the mpi dvd releases. renting the dvds and going from dvd to vhs then back to dvd was a good decision rather than going from the mpi vhs releases of the post barnabas episodes, however you could have also bought an inexpensive dvd player and played back the dvds on it and recorded them on your dvd recorder. just be thankfull mpi didnt put copyguard/macrovision on their releases!

"its true beginning has never before been told" lol. how can they make that claim? mpi released the same episodes on vhs and sci-fi aired them and abc aired them in 1966-67!

i just read on lara parkers website, that the vista theatre in hollywood is planning some 40th anniversary ds tribute on oct.26th. i now believe that this is the hollywood evening event. anybody have more info on this? this is the first i heard of it. laras website just says more information coming soon.

they r probably 16mm film, but in negative form. this means all the black images are white and all white images are black. they probably used these negatives to make contact 16mm positive prints. if u tried to project them u will see a reverse image. there are film telecines that can reverse the images or maybe it could be reversed if u fed it into an expensive computer system but would it be worth all the trouble just to view an episode with original commercials? its still a nice collectors item.

here in hollywood, major movie stars get their stars placed on hollywood blvd and get footprints in cement at the chinese theatre. the public is invited to attend and no restrictions are made for videotaping or photographing these events. theres no way of knowing whos doing it for personal use and whos doing it with the idea of selling the pictures/photos later. i see shops along the blvd selling candid paparazzi like pictures of celebrities. i think if they are at a public event or out in public theres no rules/laws about photographing or videotaping them and selling the material. i think the problem at the conventions is that they mix performances and q+a/ panels etc together in the same day. so everybodys got their camcorders set up to tape the q+a and then next is nancys cabaret or the stage play etc. jim comes out and says no videotaping of the performances but always somebody tries it anyway. some are asked to stop and some get away with it or they say they didnt hear the announcement. maybe all the performances can be done in 1 day and video cameras can be banned for that 1 day and they can have people checking at the door for cameras and the rest of the convention can be all q+a and skits and panels etc that could be photograhed and videotaped with no problem.

did jim give the same reason as i got. did he elaborate? did u tell him no one believes that the stars object?