So I picked up a DVD collection of the TV show Whiz Kids. It's not a good copy. Actually it's a terrible copy. but if you guys want me to bring it to festivus let me know
So I picked up a DVD collection of the TV show Whiz Kids. It's not a good copy. Actually it's a terrible copy. but if you guys want me to bring it to festivus let me know
Great show! For YEARS I had wanted ads looking for that show. At some point one of the producer's daughters contacted me looking for a copy as well. I think CBS holds the original rights if I remember it right. I found that ?Max? guy who helped make it and emailed him with no response. I wish we could find a copy on 3/4" or something. Anyways after eons some random guy emails me that he has it. Can I buy a copy? No he says. He will only trade it. Trade it for 30 $1 VHS movies from Overstock.com. Sends me this list, all of them I had never heard of. 6 were dupes. This was in the late age of VHS. I expected to receive the copy on an overdubbed no name VHS movie but nope. Anyways, I think that same person is where all of the whiz kids copies in existance have come from. He liked the girl on the show, and was fortunate enough to have a VCR in that era? I want to say one episode was cut short from his copy. I tell everyone about the show, and how it was so far ahead of it's time in the technology exploits used. Like 20 years ahead. Totally amazing. (Just looked at Wikipedia) Woah, so the DVD you have is and official release from France? - Ethan
This the item in question? I was considering buying a copy: https://www.retrotvmemories.com/products/kids-whiz-kids-dvd-series-complete-... On 10/7/2018 12:06 PM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
So I picked up a DVD collection of the TV show Whiz Kids. It's not a good copy. Actually it's a terrible copy. but if you guys want me to bring it to festivus let me know
That one is probably better than mine. My version is terrible, I got it at comic con On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 12:24 PM Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
This the item in question? I was considering buying a copy:
https://www.retrotvmemories.com/products/kids-whiz-kids-dvd-series-complete-...
On 10/7/2018 12:06 PM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
So I picked up a DVD collection of the TV show Whiz Kids. It's not a good copy. Actually it's a terrible copy. but if you guys want me to bring it to festivus let me know
On 10/7/2018 2:42 PM, Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
That one is probably better than mine. My version is terrible, I got it at comic con
It would be nice to compare. I have a set that look like VHS copies, with a main menu that looks like: https://i.postimg.cc/nh9VjbKp/image.png If the $25CAD version is better quality, I'd be interested in upgrading my set.
On 2018-10-07 16:29, RETRO Innovations via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 10/7/2018 2:42 PM, Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
That one is probably better than mine. My version is terrible, I got it at comic con
https://i.postimg.cc/nh9VjbKp/image.png
If the $25CAD version is better quality, I'd be interested in upgrading my set.
I bought the Canadian site's copy for 34 CAD including shipping. Despite the specific page for Whiz Kids saying "Excellent video and audio quality" it's not. It's almost unwatchable. I realize it came from a 20-30 year old VHS rip probably recorded off-air. However A/V lipsync is off, there are constant tracking errors through-out that get encoded as massive storms of macro-blocks, and the static in the audio is almost as loud as the vocals. It has a different menu screen that the png above. Avoid retrotvmemories at all costs. -Alan
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