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Re: some sort of secret CD copy protection scheme????
« Reply #25 on: March 26, 2007, 04:45:13 PM »
Yeah I've never seen any Season 0 either, apparently they weren't very good (can't blame them, they were just figuring out what the show was at that point I'd imagine) but I'm a completist that way.
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Re: some sort of secret CD copy protection scheme????
« Reply #26 on: March 26, 2007, 04:49:46 PM »
Quote from: Demosthenes on March 26, 2007, 11:30:38 AM
So.  I chalk it up to what I found on the interweb.  Manufacturing defects from some discs released by the Rhino label that make some optical drives barf all over the place when trying to read them.

Well you could also try seeing if there are any firmware upgrades for your current drive.  But if you've gotten them ripped it may not be worth the effort.

Hmmm.  There used to be a site dedicated to that, firmware upgrades that is.  I wonder which box around here might still have a link to it.

Edit: well it didn't take google long at all to find it.

http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php

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Re: some sort of secret CD copy protection scheme????
« Reply #27 on: March 26, 2007, 07:47:05 PM »
Quote from: Agent_Tachyon on March 26, 2007, 04:45:13 PM
Yeah I've never seen any Season 0 either, apparently they weren't very good (can't blame them, they were just figuring out what the show was at that point I'd imagine) but I'm a completist that way.

I am member #939 of the original KTMA TV-23 Mystery Science Theater 3000 Fan Club.  I joined in the winter of 1988 because I was a huge fan of the show, and it was a local cult hit here in Central Minnesota back then.  I still have my Fan Club card.  Joel Hodgson used to do standup comedy in this area then too, and I got to meet him a number of times.  He's even funnier in person.  They did a live taping of the show some time after that at a comedy club in Minneapolis and fan club members got reserved seats -- for free.

Afterward they did a meet-and-greet and I got autographs of the entire original cast and Mike Nelson was there too, though I don't think he was technically officially part of the show until it moved to Comedy Central.

I actually agree that it's great that Rhino has released what they can on DVD... it's a piece of great TV history in my opinion, and it's not hard to get bootlegs of any season except the almost mythical "Season 0" unless you find some of the hardcore Minnesotan fans from back when the show first started airing around here on a local independent channel nobody cared about.
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Re: some sort of secret CD copy protection scheme????
« Reply #28 on: March 27, 2007, 10:46:59 AM »
Quote from: Demosthenes on March 26, 2007, 07:47:05 PM
I am member #939 of the original KTMA TV-23 Mystery Science Theater 3000 Fan Club. 

Good Lord! That's a million times more elite than a tripple-digit Jeff.com number!

Awesome!

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Re: some sort of secret CD copy protection scheme????
« Reply #29 on: March 27, 2007, 12:20:54 PM »
Quote from: ivan on March 27, 2007, 10:46:59 AM
Good Lord! That's a million times more elite than a tripple-digit Jeff.com number!

Awesome!



I never realized how big a deal the show became until years later.  I'm glad I hung on to the Fan Club Card.  It's seen better days, but it's still legible.

Alas, I don't have a triple-digit JEFF.com account number.  My "demosthenes" account there is #1348.
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Re: some sort of secret CD copy protection scheme????
« Reply #30 on: March 27, 2007, 03:40:42 PM »
Yeah my pbsaurus is 5014.  I'm such a n00b.  I had a charter membership card to 924 Gilman (went to the inaugural show there) but it was in a wallet that was stolen back in the '90s.
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Re: some sort of secret CD copy protection scheme????
« Reply #31 on: March 27, 2007, 03:46:29 PM »
924 Gilman? That's so elite, I don't even know what it is!!!
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Re: some sort of secret CD copy protection scheme????
« Reply #32 on: March 27, 2007, 03:52:11 PM »
Google it.
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Re: some sort of secret CD copy protection scheme????
« Reply #33 on: March 27, 2007, 04:43:43 PM »
Majorly cool!
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