Wow!! Sounds wonderful. I have been hunting high and low for DVDs
ofCounterstrike. I hope you will be making copies. If so let me know and the
costs involved. I hope you take a bow for all your efforts.
Mary

robin1111b <robin1111b@...> wrote:
I am working on transferring this series to DVD. More details below.
However, I do wish that someone else could make an effort to help
out with this if anyone has access and the time and energy.

I just posted another note to the IMDB Counterstrike board about
this. The series is still airing daily in Canada in syndication. It
has not aired in USA in many years.

About 5 years ago, a contact in Canada sent me the complete series
recorded on VHS at ep speed. She sent me original tapes, not
copies. The reason it was done at ep speed is because there was so
much content - 66 one hour episodes, so that was the only way
practical. I then made VHS copies available to Glenn, again the
copies were done at ep speed, since that was the only thing
practical with so much content. Hence, the quality loss.

Of course, back in the VHS days, I recorded everything at SP speed
(best quality). But an exception had to me made for Counterstrike.

So, now that I still have all these original Counterstrike VHS
tapes, I am slowly transferring them to DVD (using a high quality s-
vhs deck with TBC and sending the signal over higher quality s-video
cable to the DVD recorder). I am really happy with the quality of
the DVD's using this method. It is a very time consuming project, as
I am editing out all the commercials on the DVD recorder with a hard
drive.

I am transferring 2 episodes per DVD, with the video at a 6.0 bit
rate. If you try to cram many episodes onto each DVD you will lower
the quality, so I am keeping it at 2 per dvd. With the commercials
edited out, each DVD runs about 95 minutes.

There are 3 seasons, 66 episodes in in total.

For now, I am limiting this project to transferring to DVD Season 2
only, plus 2 additional episodes: "The Beginning" from Season 1 (a
good episode, plus it sets up the whole series) + "Cherchez la
Femme" from Season 3 (Plummer played piano in that one - I think
that's the only episode where he played piano).

I will eventually try to do the rest, unless someone else can get to
it first. This is very time consuming, so I can only deal with this
one season at a time.

Here are some links
Imdb - Counterstrike message board
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0098773/

TV Tropolis - details about Counterstrike currently airing in Canada.
http://www.canada.com/tvtropolis/tv/counterstrike/episodes/index.html

Excellent detailed episode summaries
http://www.tv.com/counterstrike/show/5522/summary.html?
q=counterstrike&tag=search_results;title;0

More Counterstrike info. & a long article
http://www.christopher-plummer.com/counterstrike.html






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