I got the last of my Christmas/Father's Day stuff and have set up shop. I have a new DVD Recorder and have been going to town archiving all of my Mystery Science Theatre from the VHS tapes I made all those years ago. I don't know how many episodes I actually have and some of these tapes have never been played after they were recorded. So far I have 11 episodes burnt.

Cool TOR .

You know the email address!

Ya can send me the good stuff!

But what to choose?

I know ya will come up with something good.

You should see some of the commercials! How about a game called Burn Cycle, Prodigy, AOL, or Windows 95!

I swear this is a line from a AOL spot:

"You can send and receive Email... Even across the Internet!"

TOR , your brain is going to melt

Heee hee he hahahah!

Feel the burn, man!

LOL TOR , I am surprised you can even type the words in the correct order

Order type correct with tape the play at night in without bad watching spots.

Sad thing is I understand that too ......

Brought to you by Mental(tm).

Ok... Part of my extra Christmas bonus (ahem) went into buying more blanks and the project was supposed to be on again. The problem is the recorder is shutting down after a few hours running like it's overheating. Right now the lid is off and all the heat shields are warm but not fry an egg mode No real dust either. Hmm....

Oh I'm sorry. The VCR is fine, it's the DVD recorder that's shutting down.

I've been playing a DVD over and over again and it keeps humming along. Apparently only when it records does it fail. And of course it ruins a disk when it does.

I have hours and hours and hours of MST3K tapes and I now have a DVD recorder. I should put them all on DVD. I could get 4 per disc and retain decent quality.

It's a stand alone model from Sanyo. It gives no warning. I start a recording session and the next thing I know the record light is still on but the unit itself is off and the clock is back on the display. I have to turn it on again to get the display back on the counter. But it will play all day long.

These disks are the same that I've been using so far without problems. I have a pile of stuff recorded before this problem started and never had a failed disk 'till now.

Have you tried other brands of media? It could be that, it's not an overheating issue as the same amount of heat should be generated either playing or recording. It could be a firmware issue as well. When I start backing up my MST3K library I'll let you know and see if you want copies.

I just don't know, but I don't have the disks to troubleshoot much more. I'm setting myself up to use the computer's capture card to continue the project. I just need a S-Video cable that will reach. I have one but finding it is proving difficult...

I've been copying some of my library of MST3K to DVD with the settop DVD recorder with some good success. So far I've finished The Deadly Mantis, She Creature, Mole People and I'm recording The Thing That Couldn't Die. God it's good to watch these again. It just makes me wish I could've started recording these long ago as I only have the last two seasons.

How do you get a VHS tape out of a VHS recorder when it gets stuck? I put a blank videotape in my VHS player, and now its stuck, can't get it out, just keeps making a 'clicking' sound, is there a way to get the tape out of there? I figured out how to take the cover off, but I can't seem to figure out how to get the tape out.

Just in case anyone is interested in this little cow-town puppet show the head photographer from the series, Michael Kienitz, has posted several still images from the filming of the movie that no one has seen before.

Go to:
http://www.michaelkienitz.com/
And click on the portfolio link.

Tape transports are so cheap now. It's not like the old days when they used metal in there...

Guess what? They're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

http://www.shoutfactory.com:80/av/film_crew/intro-trailer.asx

SWEET!

Good spoof of Chris Crocker. Look at the Chris Crocker and Chewie one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztRJYzYH6HE&mode=related&search=

Someone just needs to amputate Crocker's head but I thought Chewie had alot to add to the debate.

Ha ha! Yeah I saw that! And I agree!

I wouldn't go so far as amputation but Chewie is definately the smarter of the two.

And prettier too.

Harsh....but fair.

I get the MST3K email news from the SATELLITE NEWS website. Some of it is real interesting. This came in today:


Ken Plume over at Quick Stop Entertainment has posted another lengthy
MST3K interview, this time with Frank Conniff. Head on over to the
following address:
http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2007/09/18/interview-frank-conniff

Brian Eggert, a Minnesota native and movie reviewer at the Deep Focus
Review web site, has started the "Mystery Science Theater 3000 Award."
This is an award he gives to movies he reviews which are so bad that, in
his words, rating them with zero stars "just isn't low enough." You can
read about the first "MST3K Award" for the movie "Dragon Wars" at:
http://deepfocusreview.com/Reviews/dragonwars.asp

*Brian*

Items of MST3K news may be duplicated or reposted, as long as Satellite News is cited as the source.

I just got this email tonight. Some of you may find this interesting:


We are excited to announce some very big news for MST3K fans.

But first, some housekeeping: For reasons that will become apparent, we need
to ask those of you who reach our site using the URL MST3K.com to update your
bookmarks, and please use the URL MST3Kinfo.com. Many of you use this URL
already, but if you get to us via MST3K.com, starting next week you won't be able
to anymore.

The reason is that, next week, MST3K.com will become a new destination for a
brand new site, created by a reconstituted, relaunched Best Brains Inc.

Or, as they put it when they contacted us about this: "The 'Bots are Back!"

Beginning November 5th, BBI will be launching its very own website at
MST3K.com. The site will feature brand-new animated adventures of Crow, Tom Servo and
Gypsy. We're told the goal is to have one new adventure each week (though
"some settling may occur with shipping," they added). The Web site will also
feature work from the original series (which BBI is now calling "the legacy
series"), behind-the-scenes footage and other material culled from the BBI vault.

Also on the site will be BBI's first online store, featuring all new
merchandise. (This means that the BBI merchandise section of our site will be taken
down. )

The new adventures of the 'bots are being produced by BBI President, MST3K
series writer and the returning voice of Gypsy, Jim Mallon. He will be joined on
this new experiment by veteran MST3K series writer and performer Paul Chaplin
(who will be on the writing team and will be providing the voice of Crow)
along with new writing and performing talent.

We know this is going generate a lot of buzz among the fan base and you all
probably have a zillion questions. So do we. Many will be answered on Nov. 5th.
More will be answered soon after. Jim told us that the site and project "are
going to grow in a very organic fashion and we're going to let the characters
and the story take us in the direction they want to take us." We at Satellite
News can't wait to see it.

What does this mean for Satellite News? The biggest change is that we will no
longer be known as "The official MST3K Web site," and this marks the end of
our 10-year arrangement with Best Brains as the official voice of the old Info
Club. Jim has, however, declared us, "The Official MST3K fan site." We still
have close ties to BBI and whenever they have news you'll see it here first,
along with news about the rest of the former cast and crew members of our
favorite cowtown puppet show. For us, this is just one more topic in the growing
list of MST3K-related news it's our job to report.

We have some interesting plans for our site as well, so be sure to stay tuned!


Items of MST3K news may be duplicated or reposted, as long as Satellite News (MST3Kinfo.com) is cited as the source.
--^----------------------------------------------------------------

More news today:

After we posted that the 'bots are back, you may have asked yourself,
"We know what Mike, Kevin, Bill, Jim and Paul are doing, but what about
Joel, Trace, Frank, Mary Jo and Josh?" Well, here's your answer...

Cinematic Titanic

So what is Cinematic Titanic? In a nutshell, Joel and the gang have
secured the rights to 12 bad, MST-quality films. They will all be
writing and performing new riffs, with silhouettes. The plan is to offer
downloadable and burnable DVDs through the site -- sort of one-stop
shopping.

We're told that while there will be an overall premise to the show,
there won't be many "host segments" or the like. And the silhouette
won't be of people in theater seats. Instead, it will consist of people
up on scaffolding on the side of the screen...as seen in the Cinematic
Titanic logo.

The date and title of the first release have yet to be announced, but
you can be the first to recieve the news by signing up for the Cinematic
Titanic newsletter. Just visit Cinematic Titanic for more
information.

From Joel and the Titanic staff today:



http://cinematictitanic.com/wpmu/

Hi Tor!!!

I need to see that. Almost peed at stiffy pop.

New news from the Titanic:

News I got this morning:



http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/mst3k-updates.html

Here you go Tor
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001B73PPS?tag=...amp;camp=211189

Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition
This title will be released on October 28, 2008.

Yep!

What it looks like Tor
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Mystery-Science-Theater-3000-20th-Anniversary/10032

Oh wow! I want that bad!

From the official schedule:

See what will be happening this year at the San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, July 25!

7:15-8:15 Mystery Science Theater 3000 20th Anniversary Reunion— From 1988 to 1999, the long-suffering captives aboard the Satellite of Love wisecracked their way through hundreds of cinema's problem children—those delirious B-movies of yesteryear created by twisted imaginations and, possibly, the need for a tax shelter. To celebrate the show's 20th Anniversary, join a historic reunion of cast and crew, including creator Joel Hodgson, producer Jim Mallon and fellow writer/performers Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl, Paul Chaplin, J. Elvis Weinstein, Bridget Nelson, and Bill Corbett for a Q&A panel hosted by self-professed "MST3K nerd" and comedian Patton Oswalt (The King of Queens). Room 6B

News from Cinematic Titanic:



OMG they are coming to St. Louis!

A recent broadcast of the Olympics in Helena and other Montana communities had some unusual spectators — from a television show canceled a decade ago.

The Internet has been abuzz over the accidental and seemingly innocuous superimposition of characters from Mystery Science Theater 3000 over the high-definition showing of the Olympics on Sunday afternoon by KTVH, NBC’s affiliate in parts of Montana.

For about an hour of the coverage, the screen was bordered on the bottom by a silhouette of the show’s three main characters — a man and his two robot sidekicks.

In the storyline of Mystery Science Theater 3000, the characters were trapped on a satellite in space and forced to watch horrible movies, mainly science fiction B-movies.

The silhouette of the characters broadcast Sunday were static and therefore did not make the mocking remarks they usually did during the presentations.

The incident, which reportedly appeared from 2 p.m. until 3:13 p.m. and was isolated to Helena, was apparently first written about online by the blogger “Dirty Red Commie,” who recorded it to prove he had not “lost his mind."

Cool Story Tor

Man I'm rolling on that one!

Did you see this Tor ?
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Mystery-Science-Theater-3000-20th-Anniversary-Edition/10353

Oh yeah! I love the Crow figurine!

New news from the MST3K planet:

Don't forget to support Harold as Well!!!
http://www.cafepress.com/haroldandrews

I still want the stein.

Does Harold ship to Australia?

I have no idea

Oh no. Im grateful you replied as quick as you did Tral because I dont read all the threads I was filling in time tonight. So if anyone has the answer can you please PM me.

Ill ask harold Kate

Thankyou my Darlin ;), & youll PM me?

I always pm you

I know.

So can Harold ship down under? Inquiring minds want to know before we can't!

Waiting waiting waiting

My favorite line of all time was "There's a mantis in my pantis".

Just what does Martha Stewart have to do with Mystery Science Theater anyway?

THat makes no sense what so ever.

Yeah... So weird...



http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2008/09/face_time_alexis_stewart_and_jennifer_ko.php

Tentatively as long as the (now) venerable VCR holds out, the project is on again. Just a few more tapes to go really.

I really should back up my tapes onto DVD. I have a DVD-DVR that does a REAL nice job of recording.

The transport on the VCR get's stuck when it tries to eject a tape, but everything else works (knock on wood). You have to help it get the tape out. Oh well...

I do NOT have to help get the tape out if I don't wanna! I DON'T WANNA!!!!

Ha! And now neither do I!

As of tonight the Mystery Science Theater Project is done. Every S-VHS recording I have is now duped to DVD. I have a few tapes left with duplicate recordings and I'll dupe them off if they are better quality than the ones I already did but the episode count is done. I need to organize them and inventory by episode numbers. I know it's not complete but it's a huge chunk of the show's run. And perhaps a few missing episodes can be found on used DVD's. That's how I got my copy of #515, The Wild World Of Batwoman. Oh yeah, that one is way bad...

How is your collection coming along Tor Are you still working on the project

I need to get time to organize the disks by season and episode yet so I can get a list of haves/have nots. Such a daunting task when you're busy though! I know I have 2 DVD folders full... That must be something like 100 disks!

How did you convert them? Do you have a tv tuner card in your computer?

How long did it take?

Wow!!!!!
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Mystery-Science-Theater-3000-20th-Anniversary-Edition/10761

Just my luck... I thought about a Christmas self-gift on that one. Oh well...



I did it the old fashion way and played the tapes directly into a DVD recorder. No fancy menus or nothing, just the basics. If I want to put together a special presentation I can rip the files off the disk and edit that, but for now I don't need to. I guess since I've been using this thread as my blog for the project I see I started this June 2005. I had some down time where the equipment wasn't in the same room and when the original DVD recorder quit. Without these pauses I would have been done much sooner.

How many shows fit on a dvd?

Would depend if it was a standard dvd/double sided, dual layer/double sided disc.

That is why I asked

It would also depend on his encoding specifications.

Wonders if Tor is home yet

I worked my way here!

I run the disks in DVD standard, so I get two hours run time per single side. So one episode with the commercials intact fit per disk. And some of the commercials are like gems to themselves!

You didn't edit out the commercials?

Nope. You can riff on them or just fast forward if you like. If I was to edit them it would have had to be done in real time. And it wouldn't have saved enough time to use the rest of the disk for anything anyway.

Do you have the last season on disc? I have the last two seasons on tape that I need to transfer over. I started taping them religiously during the season that featured Agent For H.A.R.M. and The Deadly Mantis. I had seen the show off and on but never really watched it until then.

I have the last season complete. As far as I can tell I have the 4th season as well. The Deadly Mantis came from the 8th season. I got that one.

I attached a text document to this post with the complete list of all the episodes I transferred to DVD. Just in case anyone wanted to see them listed that is!

I think I'm one lucky dude. A good friend sent us a MST3K boxed set for our Anniversary and wanted to know what I thought of it.

So I figure this is a s good a place to talk about it as anywhere.

First of all the tin box looks great. I'm not sure how to describe it though. It's painted in such a way that you can tell it's metal. The shiny-ness of it comes through the printing. It's a nice touch.

On the inside is the actual box set of the four DVD's, plus four collector prints the size of post cards (one for each movie in the collection - I plan to frame mine!), and a Crow T. Robot figurine (you can see all the parts used to make him clearly!)

But the real gem is the DVD's. The first one is 211- FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS from the 2nd season. Ambitious movie but it just falls flat... A mysterious spool is found containing a recorded message from Venus and we just happen to have a new space ship ready to go and find out more!

The 2nd is 706- LASERBLAST from the 7th season. I remember seeing this movie in it's un-MST form, but it needed riffing bad. It came out the same year Star Wars did and was blown completely out of the water. Young Billy finds a alien weapon which gives him the revenge he wants against the bullies in his life. Then the weapon mutates him. Poor Billy...

The 3rd is 904- WEREWOLF from the 9th season. Joe Estevez stars in this major miss... Bones of something strange is found in Arizona, and soon lycanthropes live again!

The 4th is 1004- FUTURE WAR from the 10th season. I don't know what this movie is supposed to be. There are cyborgs, human slaves, and rubber dinosaurs. Somehow they are all supposed to fit together. I watched it and still don't know how it's done...

Also on the disks is a three part cast and crew interview, and the legendary appearance of the cast at the 2008 Comic-Con.

My first impression is that this set fits with anyone. If you are a dedicated MSTie or a curious newbie this set works. You can find out all you want about how the show came about and enjoy some fine examples of the riffing art. All the films are in color too. I have noticed that some of the B&W films they used tend to loose peoples interest if they aren't "MSTified" already. Not always...

But if you are a die-hard fan these films have never been released on DVD or in the old VHS series I understand, so they are a catch for your collection. And after 20 years it still holds up like fine wine or Jethro Tull. Classic.

And I am a lucky guy as I never dreamed I could get myself a copy... But the dream is real!

I loved the Werewolf episode! The part where they show the wolf skull and Servo does an opera-like "ahhhhhh", that had us laugh our butts off.

I liked the idea of the movie, but the execution... Well it makes good riffing!

For Tor
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Mystery-Science-Theater-3000-Volume-14/11244