Assuming it is legal to mak a personal backup of your own copy of a film. It would theoretically be possible for a company with dvd mastering facilities to master a dvd of your personal copy of TPM (from the video) for you own personal backup. If this is the case then couldn't some smart arse decide that he would save you the bother of asking for a backup and be very nice and do the backup before you even bought the film. Therefore when you bought your TPM video form him, plus a small fee for the cost of backing up, he would give you your dvd backup of the movie aswell.
and hey presto you now have TPM on dvd and nobody broke the law (i think).
So assuming that the quality of the VHS is good enough you will get the DVD that is so sought after!
I remember seeing on a TV program called "Revenge of the Nerds" (UK Channel 4) a few years ago, one of the first 'computers' that had no screen or keyboard. It was essentially a box with switches and lights on the front. It could be programed by flicking the switches and would respond with combinations of lights. Somebody giving a lecture on one of these thigs wrote a program (which tood a few hours to input) which when run would play the music of "Greensleeves" as interferance on an AM radio near by. -- Genius, using the timings of loops to play a song by interferance.
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Assuming it is legal to mak a personal backup of your own copy of a film. It would theoretically be possible for a company with dvd mastering facilities to master a dvd of your personal copy of TPM (from the video) for you own personal backup.
If this is the case then couldn't some smart arse decide that he would save you the bother of asking for a backup and be very nice and do the backup before you even bought the film. Therefore when you bought your TPM video form him, plus a small fee for the cost of backing up, he would give you your dvd backup of the movie aswell.
and hey presto you now have TPM on dvd and nobody broke the law (i think).
So assuming that the quality of the VHS is good enough you will get the DVD that is so sought after!
I remember seeing on a TV program called "Revenge of the Nerds" (UK Channel 4) a few years ago, one of the first 'computers' that had no screen or keyboard. It was essentially a box with switches and lights on the front. It could be programed by flicking the switches and would respond with combinations of lights. Somebody giving a lecture on one of these thigs wrote a program (which tood a few hours to input) which when run would play the music of "Greensleeves" as interferance on an AM radio near by. -- Genius, using the timings of loops to play a song by interferance.