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- From: rcook@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Robert Cook)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
- Subject: Re: Seeking THE LITTLE MERMAID on VHS...
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 16:48:52 GMT
- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- In article <16B4A4701.IEBF94S@tjuvm.tju.edu> IEBF94S@tjuvm.tju.edu (Craig Doerrmann) writes:
- >I just had a friend pick up a copy of TLM from a flea market in Southern
- >New Jersey. Looked original, although the box was cardboard, not the large
- >plastic book-like holder. (For $10.00, you have to take a chance)
- >
- >The record tab was still intact. The label on the cassette looked original,
- >but you could see the flaws on close-up examination. The regular stereo
- >track was blank on the left, and the hi-fi track had a buzzing in the
- >background. The video portion is good, but you can tell it's a copy.
-
- The pirates didn't even have the decency to make a laserdisc copy or
- to use a special device that removes the copy protection. One blank
- stereo track is a sure indication that they copied it from a tape
- using two regular VCRs. Imagine, a "Mom-and-Pop" piracy ring! At
- least they're a small time operation.
-
- I wonder where they got the cardboard boxes...maybe they run a video
- store.
-
-
- - Robert Cook
-