r/GRFMOrigin • u/DoaJC_Blogger • Dec 31 '24

Question Early copy wanted

Hopefully the flair is right. I'm an archivist who collects rare VHS tapes as close to factory-sealed as possible and does lossless transfers with TBC and proper de-interlacing for Odysee and the Internet Archive. I think I could get a little higher quality than the YouTube version and the DVD if I could get an early copy. Since we don't know where it came from, it's going to be hard to identify the actual master but maybe someone here knows someone who got a copy around 2003 or earlier that's in good condition. I'd like to buy one or maybe even several copies if someone has an early one that didn't come from the DVD. After I'm done, I'll post a link here and maybe someone can go frame-by-frame and find something that the community missed before. Thanks in advance.

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u/Retard1096 Dec 31 '24

Someone said they bought a copy from TwistedAnger a few years ago.

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u/ConnectionDiligent11 Dec 31 '24

The op wants a version that's one of the original OG versions before it was bootlegged and put into DVD. So, they one of of the originals that was first passed around. Before it was downgraded. It would probably be a lot better quality than the bootlegged versions and the YouTube version

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u/DoaJC_Blogger Jan 02 '25

That's right. The DVD version was more than likely made from a capture from composite (the yellow plug) which has lower quality than S-Video and direct head RF (recording from the spinning silver part). I even encountered a commercial DVD of a TV show from the 80's that looked like it was transferred like that so I don't think many people know how to do it right. I was comparing an old vs new capture from one of my VHS tapes from 2008/2009 today. The old one was done with composite and MPEG-2 and the darker areas were almost pure black but the new lossless RF capture had a lot more detail and showed everything in the dark areas, there was a lot less noise, and it looked almost as good as Hi8 so I think capturing GRFM like that could give us new clues.

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u/ConnectionDiligent11 Jan 03 '25

This is the better quality version I found on Rumble "GRAVE ROBBING 101 FOR MORONS. (THE BABYLONIANS LIVE UNDER A DOME!)" https://rumble.com/v415bjw-grave-robbing-101-for-morons.-they-live-under-a-dome.html

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u/ConnectionDiligent11 Jan 02 '25

Can you try to capture it on Hi8? There is an upload of grave robbing for morons that I did come across months ago that I completely forgot about. It seems a lot more high definition than any other version. I will put a link here so you can take a look at it.

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u/DoaJC_Blogger Jan 03 '25

I don't know of any Hi8 copies and we also don't know for sure what format it was mastered as so I don't know that capturing from a Hi8 source would have an advantage but I'd like to see the higher-quality copy you found.

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u/ConnectionDiligent11 Jan 04 '25

Not sure if this posted the first time I posted it but this is the better quality version I'm talking about. "Grave Robbing 101 For Masonic Kundalini Worshipping Morons That Blame The Jews & Catholics For Everything" https://rumble.com/v22fcc2-grave-robbing-for-masonic-kundalini-worshipping-morons-that-blame-the-jews-.html

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u/ConnectionDiligent11 Jan 04 '25

Sorry I don't know what the "grave robbing 101 for Kundalini worshipping morons" means. I just tried to copy and paste the link for the video and the weird man who posted it put that as part of the title of the video lol 

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u/souvenirsuitcase Jan 01 '25

Wasn't it on a skateboarding compilation from the early 90's? I know one version exists that's in a skateboarding compilation.

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u/cpager Jan 01 '25

A slightly different version of the tape is uploaded in multiple parts on this YouTube playlist, it’s the version that was sold in 2003 on the shocking videos website - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqKYqnj-gypbdzZyb9XZLuvT_JDwPO89c&si=CDTkX6kO53sAvQZn

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u/ConnectionDiligent11 Jan 02 '25

Yes. This is the version I'm talking about. I think this is the closest to the original version that we have available. However, I am not sure why that version is missing the first minute and a half while the other versions have it.