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[oldvideos]

I've started the project of transferring my vhs tapes to DVD. As a fan of the Olympics for a long time, many of my recordings are of the various Olympic Games. I also have lots of figure skating, gymnastics and various other sports.

In order to keep track of things I have started a web page to organize my new recordings. Old Videos This project is ongoing and it will take me a loong time to transfer all my tapes.

My big achievement so far is transferring all my coverage of the 1992 Barcelona Games. Next week I will add that last of some 120 hours of coverage, including a great deal of triplecast coverage. All this coverage is in a raw form - no commercials are bleeped and sometimes I switched back and forth from NBC to Triplecast. The picture quality is very good, with a few noted exceptions.

My next Olympic project will be to add all my 2004 HD coverage. NBC had different - expanded - coverage on HD. NOTE - I didn't record in HD. I just got the HD programming. *By the way, if anyone has recordings of the HD programming for the Salt Lake Games, I would love to know about it*

If I have anything you are interested in, please contact me at the website.

[micheal_warren]

Great stuff. I have been undergoing that process over the past couple of years.

[baron-pierreIV]

oldvideos, on Oct 7 2009, 05:01 AM, said:

if anyone has recordings of the HD programming for the Salt Lake Games, I would love to know about it*

I believe Athens'04 was the FIRST Games broadcast in HD so you won't find any Salt Lake broadcasts in HD.

[oldvideos]

baron-pierreIV, on Oct 8 2009, 11:46 AM, said:

I believe Athens'04 was the FIRST Games broadcast in HD so you won't find any Salt Lake broadcasts in HD.

I wish that were true. However, NBC did broadcast special HD coverage in 2002. I think it must have been a sort of experiment. I didn't find out about it until the very end of the games when it was too late to arrange for anyone to record it for me. According to the engineers at the local NBC affiliate (who were kind enough to try to explain it for me) NBC broadcast whole competitions with no commentary and no commercial interruptions. The entire figure skating competition was broadcast, for example. I have found people who watched it over the years but I haven't ever found anyone who recorded it.

[fox334]

baron-pierreIV, on Oct 8 2009, 05:46 PM, said:

I believe Athens'04 was the FIRST Games broadcast in HD so you won't find any Salt Lake broadcasts in HD.

oldvideos, on Oct 9 2009, 02:23 PM, said:

I wish that were true. However, NBC did broadcast special HD coverage in 2002. I think it must have been a sort of experiment. I didn't find out about it until the very end of the games when it was too late to arrange for anyone to record it for me. According to the engineers at the local NBC affiliate (who were kind enough to try to explain it for me) NBC broadcast whole competitions with no commentary and no commercial interruptions. The entire figure skating competition was broadcast, for example. I have found people who watched it over the years but I haven't ever found anyone who recorded it.

http://digitalcontentproducer.com/news/vid...present_winter/
The sports that where filmed in HD in Salt Lake are Ice Hockey, Short Track, Long Track, Ski Jumping and of coarse Figure Skating, all in glorius 1080i 5.1 audio channels (I doubt I have ever said this here, but I am a complete resolution snob...). I too am longing to see some of the SLC HD, but so far no luck. HDNet was broadcasting 8 hours a day of HD during the Salt Lake games, so if anybody has any contacts whit them...

Anyway, from what I heard NHK actually had some HD coverage from Barcelona... Now, THAT would be quite a score from an Olympic collector...

Not only that, but I discovered that the EBU also did HD in Barcelona for the benefit of showing the game live in theaters (article here: http://www.ebu.ch/en..._254-romero.pdf ). Yes folks, the Dream Team exists in HD!

[oldvideos]

Very cool. Have you ever tried to contact EBU to see if they might someday make it available? You're right, it would be a collectors dream.

[Scotguy]

I am looking to buy the following ceremonies on dvd if anyone has them and would sell copies to me

Salt Lake City 2002 opening ceremony
Doha 2006 Opening Ceremony
China Games 2009 Opening Ceremony
Beijing 2008 Paralympic Opening Ceremony

[oldvideos]

Just an FYI for anyone interested.

I plan to record as much U.S. coverage as I can of the Vancouver Olympics. I have access to all the NBC channels as well as Universal. Figure Skating is my highest priority but if anyone is interested in recordings of other sports, now is the time to contact me - oldvideos

- I do have access to HD coverage and can record HD on my DVR, BUT, I cannot copy in HD.

- I do not have to ability to send files online. I'm offering DVD copies (or even VHS).

My link

[micheal_warren]

In New Zealand I am still to decide what to record as there are 900 hours over 4 channels of dedicated olympic coverage. I will record as much live stuff as I can as well as the 2 hour nightly highlight packages and the 1 hour olympic news bulletins each night! Getting excited now

[oldvideos]

Here is a partial list of recordings available from the 2010 Olympics. This is all U.S. coverage. If there is anything you don't see- just ask.

FIGURE SKATING
- Pairs Short and Free Programs -
- Men's Short and Free Programs -
- Ice Dancing CD, OD and Free Dance -
- Ladies Short and Free Programs -

FIGURE SKATING NEWS
- Figure Skating Review Preview - The Universal Skating Hour - 14 Episodes.

OLYMPIC NEWS
- Vancouver Preview - Includes 1/2 hour of figure skating coverage - 2 episodes, Feb 12th and 13th.
- Vancouver Olympic News Center - 14, 90-min. episodes, combined with-
- Behind the Games - 15, 30-min episodes.
- Vancouver Olympic News Center - 16, 60-min. episodes, combined with-
- Meet the Olympic Press - 15, 30-min episodes, combined with-
- Vancouver Review Preview - 14, 30-min episodes.
- America's Greatest Games - 1 30-min. episode on Feb. 28th.

GENERAL OLYMPIC COVERAGE
- Today Show - All shows from Feb. 12th - Mar. 1st.
- All Prime Time broadcasts
- All Late Night broadcasts
- All Daytime broadcasts

Lots of curling and hockey. I didn't have room for all of it, but I do have all the medal rounds.
You can contact me at oldvideos@comcast.net .