From: eichlerSPAMBGONE2@comcastsucksbecausetheydontsupportuse.net   
      
   Today marks the end of an era, sort of.  I finally finished converting   
   all my MST3K videotapes to DVD-R.  Why did it take so long?  Well,   
   starting somewhere around the middle of season 2, I decided to make   
   fancy menus for each disc, with each host segment and movie section   
   getting its own chapter break, the menu backgrounds featuring some   
   graphic related to the movie (usually the official movie poster, if I   
   could find one), and whenever possible some music from the episode.   
   There were also a lot of episodes where I had to make a second DVD out   
   of an AVI from the DAP site because my VHS copy was looking pretty   
   bad.   
      
   I finished the last season 10 episodes a couple months ago and have   
   been working on odds and ends like the Summer Blockbuster Reviews, the   
   Poopie tape, etc, since then.  The very last thing I coverted was a   
   tape of Joel, Trace, Kevin and Jim Mallon at a sci-fi convention in   
   1992 - I don't even remember where I got that from.  The second to   
   last thing was the Exoticon I video of Mike and Kevin, filmed by   
   ratmm's own Jungle Goddess and featuring many of the ratmm regulars of   
   the late 90s.  Any of you folks still lurking?  If you're out there,   
   Jungle Goddess, thanks again for the video - it brought back a lot of   
   memories.   
      
   One big benefit of the conversion effort was that I got to watch most   
   of the episodes in the order they were originally aired, so a lot of   
   the running jokes and references to past episodes that I might have   
   missed in the past made more sense this time around.   
      
   The other benefit is that my 13 year old daughter got interested   
   enough to go along with me to a Cinimatic Titanic show, and now she   
   frequently asks me to pick one of the MST3K DVDs to watch.  A new   
   generation is hooked.   
      
     -- Bob "Bice" Eichler   
      
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