tape traders group

kidlefty · Post by **kidlefty** » 08 Feb 2004, 15:42

I posted this in the "Current Scene" forum, but thought it might be useful to post it here as well- I know there's a lot of tapers who hang here exclusively. I apologize in advance to anyone who gets ticked off seeing the same thing twice, just trying to spread the word:

I've just started a new group at yahoo for boxing tape traders. There have been other such internet communities before, but I think I'm doing something a little bit different there that could benefit both the newbie tape collector as well as experienced traders with huge collections. I got the idea from other such groups for collectors of unreleased music when I went online looking for live Led Zeppelin concerts on cd. What these collectors do is start up "weeds" of a certain titles. A weed is an offer to make a set number of copies, usually two or three, and send them to group members who reply to the posting. Those 2-3 members receive those copies for free under the agreement that they re-weed them back into the group. The second time around, three copies can turn into nine, and so on. It works very well with the music collectors I've dealt with. Sometimes you get members who collect up free stuff and never re-weed, but freeloader names become blacklisted and are banned from the group. I think this system could work really well for the boxing tape collecting community, and I'd like to give it a shot. Come on over to the group and join up. If we get a nice group to start with we could come to some agreement on basic rules and get the ball rolling:

http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/boxingtapes/

MightyWarrior · Post by **MightyWarrior** » 08 Feb 2004, 16:55

Great idea, I'll have a look at that. But it's VHS PAL systems in Europe, so that might be a problem.
Can you play Pal in the USA these days Kidlefty? TVs & VCRs can now play NTSC in the UK, so it's mostly fine for tapes coming this way.
DVD/CDR is the way to go!

kidlefty · Post by **kidlefty** » 09 Feb 2004, 01:01

MightyWarrior wrote:Great idea, I'll have a look at that. But it's VHS PAL systems in Europe, so that might be a problem.
Can you play Pal in the USA these days Kidlefty? TVs & VCRs can now play NTSC in the UK, so it's mostly fine for tapes coming this way.
DVD/CDR is the way to go!

Can't play PAL, I guess people can be specific when making trades and sharing tapes. I suspect that this will eventually become an almost entirely DVD-R group, but I personally don't have a dvd burner yet, and I suspect many others don't yet either. When the time comes, I'll probably record all my tapes on to dvd, until then I'll have to keep collecting vhs.