Post by carpetcrawler on Sept 9, 2018 22:37:20 GMT -5
Since some people were starting to talk about this in the thread about how to get started, I figured we should have a thread where for fun we just talk about how we got started.
Once I got GSN in 2005 I started recording random old game show stuff left and right. I had amassed about ten or so tapes, a few eight hours long, a few six, filled to the brim with game shows. Originally it was just because I wasn't sure I'd always have the network and I wanted to have some stuff just for my own personal library. I didn't have a DVD Recorder and had no clue how to make DVDs or even copy tapes so trading was always something I had thought about, but never really got around to learning how to do. Then on Christmas, 2006, I received a DVD Recorder and made it my personal project during the Christmas break to put all of my stuff on DVD.
One of my first trades was with wildjackmonroe and while it was a small trade, he added a few hours of extra stuff as a bonus and a welcome gift to me for getting into the community, and that really jumpstarted my collection in a big way. From then on, I was trading almost non-stop until early 2008 when I had to stop for personal reasons, then my recorder died in Spring 2008 anyway. I got back into it around 2010/2011 after getting a new recorder, and kept doing it until around 2014/2015 or so when my DVD Recorder went belly up. Ever since then I've mainly been on the downlow and haven't done any trades, barring making discs of YouTube stuff for people on my PC, and I've been itching to get back in for a few years now with my actual collection, which I haven't been able to do. Stinks that DVD recorders aren't a thing anymore. I could get into buying externals and ripping my discs onto hard drives but that involves A. money and B. large amounts of free time for archiving both of which I really don't have anymore.
In all my time trading I've only ever gotten ripped off once. I don't know a total number of episodes in my collection but it has to be multiple thousands. Now I'm kinda curious how many I have.
Once I got GSN in 2005 I started recording random old game show stuff left and right. I had amassed about ten or so tapes, a few eight hours long, a few six, filled to the brim with game shows. Originally it was just because I wasn't sure I'd always have the network and I wanted to have some stuff just for my own personal library. I didn't have a DVD Recorder and had no clue how to make DVDs or even copy tapes so trading was always something I had thought about, but never really got around to learning how to do. Then on Christmas, 2006, I received a DVD Recorder and made it my personal project during the Christmas break to put all of my stuff on DVD.
One of my first trades was with wildjackmonroe and while it was a small trade, he added a few hours of extra stuff as a bonus and a welcome gift to me for getting into the community, and that really jumpstarted my collection in a big way. From then on, I was trading almost non-stop until early 2008 when I had to stop for personal reasons, then my recorder died in Spring 2008 anyway. I got back into it around 2010/2011 after getting a new recorder, and kept doing it until around 2014/2015 or so when my DVD Recorder went belly up. Ever since then I've mainly been on the downlow and haven't done any trades, barring making discs of YouTube stuff for people on my PC, and I've been itching to get back in for a few years now with my actual collection, which I haven't been able to do. Stinks that DVD recorders aren't a thing anymore. I could get into buying externals and ripping my discs onto hard drives but that involves A. money and B. large amounts of free time for archiving both of which I really don't have anymore.
In all my time trading I've only ever gotten ripped off once. I don't know a total number of episodes in my collection but it has to be multiple thousands. Now I'm kinda curious how many I have.