[Theepistle] Saint in Manhattan for sale

Tim Forcer tmf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Feb 16 08:28:21 GMT 2009


At 18:47 15/02/2009, Delmo wrote:

>  I just dubbed a copy for a friend who has never seen it.
>
>  If I were working I would pick this up as I could use an upgrade.

"Upgrade"?

Caveat emptor.

Look carefully at description and pictures.

The tape is clearly described (and pictured) as "VHS".  Not "S-VHS", 
but plain "VHS".

The label identifies it as "Off-air".

The recording is therefore equivalent to a domestic home tape.

I suspect this was made by an agency to allow confirmation (or 
otherwise) of matters such as running time, content of broadcast 
credits, lead-ins and close-outs, sponsorship material, adverts 
(including when they occured and what was advertised), no loss of 
original material during ad breaks, etc, etc.

The description "master" is, in my view, potentially misleading.

Tim 




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