Hi Chrissie,

It wouldn't be necessary to hook two DVD players together. It's actually pretty easy to separate the audio and video from each other on a computer with the proper software.

I already have a complete set of 120 episodes that was recorded from TV broadcasts, but the audio quality isn't that good. I've been looking for a set that has better audio quality. From what folks have been saying, it sounds like Kevin's set has the best audio of any that you could find on iOffer or Sell.com.

Apparently, the TV broadcasts that Kevin recorded for his set were transmitted as time-compressed broadcasts, in order to squeeze in more commercials. I have some full-featured audio software that is capable of rate resampling, which may be able to restore the audio tracks to their original length, in order to match the video from the official CBS DVDs.

I'd like to try out this procedure on one of Kevin's episodes. I asked Kevin to sell me a set, but he said that he's no longer selling them. If someone could help out by briefly loaning me one of Kevin's discs, it would be a big help.

Robert

--- In fugitive@yahoogroups.com, christine miller <waldenpond66@...> wrote:
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> What an awesome idea!!!
> Is that doable with today's technology?
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> But how can you adjust the sound when David Janssen speaks on the one DVD to the lip movements of him on the other DVD? Would two DVD players be enough to get that done?
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> Chrissie
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> --- On Wed, 7/8/09, Robert Dahl <rjd0309@...> wrote:
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> From: Robert Dahl <rjd0309@...>
> Subject: [fugitive] Re: Fugitive season 3
> To: fugitive@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 11:11 AM
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> Regarding "Kevin's" set, how is the sound quality? Any hisses or crackles?
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> Would be nice to take the original soundtracks from a set like Kevin's, and combine them with the excellent video from CBS' dvds to give us complete episodes with the original music.
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> --- In fugitive@yahoogroup s.com, Jason Gilbert <jhgilbert2001@ ....> wrote:
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> > Just to address some of the points in both John and Chrissie's e-mail. I think you both raise valid points:
> >  
> > In some of the earlier homegrown Fugitive bootleg sets, the episodes were typically recorded from different sources to make up one complete set. Some from TV Land, some from A&E, etc. The TV Land episodes defitnitely had scenes edited out to shorten the episodes. I believe the A&E episodes were uncut, but they were time-compressed to allow for more commercial time. There was one station that seemed to show the full uncut episodes because whenever an episode appeared to be recorded from that station it would run over 50 min. The picture quality was very good on those episodes, but the sound often was very crackly as though they were old film prints. Those were the best quality episodes in those sets.
> >  
> > The more recent set, which I like to call "Kevin's," was consistent in that all episodes came from one source, i.e. the same TV station,  so you know exactly what you're getting. On Kevin's set I believe ALL episodes are uncut, but they are time-compressed by the station so that each episode runs about 46:30. I wouldn't be surprised of people have "bootlegged" Kevin's set since it came out, because it was probably the first excellent quality unofficial set of the series. Hell, with the music fiasco, there may be some who find Kevin's set preferable to the "official" release!
> >  
> > Jason
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