From: msampo@aol.com   
      
   In article <50a56a09.1386331292@news.eternal-september.org>,   
    eichlerSPAMBGONE2@comcastsucksbecausetheydontsupportuse.net (Bice)   
    wrote:   
      
   > 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   
      
   :::tenting fingers::: Excellent.   
      
   BTW, lots of the old ratmmers, including Noah and Connie, are on Twitter.   
      
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