Quality news! Five or so minutes ago, Joel (small) posted on Youtube to say that it was now in his possession. Presumably he'll release it for people who are now interested thanks to his signal boost.
Do we know the time it aired and what year because I think it’s a interesting topic here and I could look through archived videos from a local tv station that aired the show
Quality news! Five or so minutes ago, Joel (small) posted on Youtube to say that it was now in his possession. Presumably he'll release it for people who are now interested thanks to his signal boost.
Do we know the time it aired and what year because I think it’s a interesting topic here and I could look through archived videos from a local tv station that aired the show
Apparently it's a three part mini series that aired as part of the regular Dr. Phil season. Here's the episode numbers I've found:
"season 5 episode 26 for the first one, 31 for the second and 41 for the third"
Wonder how that person found episode 2 in such high quality. It's been a few months and they apparently haven't found more.
Yeah... My best guess is they are somehow in the possession of a lot of either marked, or unmarked, master tapes. And periodically they get the itch to go through some and see if they can find anything that may be lost/endangered and then upload it.
My other theory would be annoying if true...
I realized after I posted earlier in the thread that this person who found episode 2 wasn't actually the first person to locate and upload it to YT... 16 days earlier someone else uploaded what looks like it would be the version the broadcast affiliate would receive, including spaces for commericals : www.youtube.com/watch?v=v70NqMjje9s&t
Being that these were uploaded so close together, maybe uploader #2 felt as though it had no value (in terms of hoarding/being the only one to have it) and shared it. I've seen stuff like this happen many many times with music, movies, other piracy stuff where incomplete/LQ stuff will finally make it out there, and then someone who had an excellent version of it will decide to release what they had.
Wonder how that person found episode 2 in such high quality. It's been a few months and they apparently haven't found more.
Yeah... My best guess is they are somehow in the possession of a lot of either marked, or unmarked, master tapes. And periodically they get the itch to go through some and see if they can find anything that may be lost/endangered and then upload it.
My other theory would be annoying if true...
I realized after I posted earlier in the thread that this person who found episode 2 wasn't actually the first person to locate and upload it to YT... 16 days earlier someone else uploaded what looks like it would be the version the broadcast affiliate would receive, including spaces for commericals : www.youtube.com/watch?v=v70NqMjje9s&t
Being that these were uploaded so close together, maybe uploader #2 felt as though it had no value (in terms of hoarding/being the only one to have it) and shared it. I've seen stuff like this happen many many times with music, movies, other piracy stuff where incomplete/LQ stuff will finally make it out there, and then someone who had an excellent version of it will decide to release what they had.
Bleh, idk.
Glad there's a good upload still around instead of that ugly AI upscaled one posted earlier, thanks for sharing! :3
Post by thefoundarchives on Jul 18, 2024 19:05:34 GMT
I'll make sure to upload my copy of Episode 2 to Archive.org without AI upscaling. It's a h.264 copy ripped from the original tape, the compression artifacts were the reason why I opted for upscaling (I hate the look of AI upscalers, but my copy was pretty rough). I had the file from working at a now-defunct TV distributor who bought masters at auction. I was really busy when I uploaded Ep2 and looking back it appears my AI denoising settings weren't great.
Nonetheless, I was able to find more content from this series yesterday by scraping Dr Phil AWS servers for video files (I have a veryyy slow download list of 700-ish files now). What I found were highly compressed FLV's, some 160x120, others 316x240. For YouTube I still did an AI denoise (some with an AI upscale at 150% res too) + 4K Lanczos upscale, but this time I used a much better model & finetuned my settings to minimize the introduction of artifacts.
Some of these clips were already available on YouTube, by Jon from the series, probably from the same files albeit poorly screen-captured in the late 2000's. I'm 80% sure what I have is the same folder of footage they sent the cast. Interestingly enough, this included clips from "House of Judgement" too, which I'm unsure is lost. I do have a copy of that series, but in horrible quality. I also have "Man Camp" but I know that one isn't lost.
Btw, if it helps anyone, every Dr Phil file server references House of Hatred by show code 5205, sometimes by "HOH" as well, which they also label House of Judgement files.
I'll make sure to upload my copy of Episode 2 to Archive.org without AI upscaling. It's a h.264 copy ripped from the original tape, the compression artifacts were the reason why I opted for upscaling (I hate the look of AI upscalers, but my copy was pretty rough). I had the file from working at a now-defunct TV distributor who bought masters at auction. I was really busy when I uploaded Ep2 and looking back it appears my AI denoising settings weren't great.
Nonetheless, I was able to find more content from this series yesterday by scraping Dr Phil AWS servers for video files (I have a veryyy slow download list of 700-ish files now). What I found were highly compressed FLV's, some 160x120, others 316x240. For YouTube I still did an AI denoise (some with an AI upscale at 150% res too) + 4K Lanczos upscale, but this time I used a much better model & finetuned my settings to minimize the introduction of artifacts.
Some of these clips were already available on YouTube, by Jon from the series, probably from the same files albeit poorly screen-captured in the late 2000's. I'm 80% sure what I have is the same folder of footage they sent the cast. Interestingly enough, this included clips from "House of Judgement" too, which I'm unsure is lost. I do have a copy of that series, but in horrible quality. I also have "Man Camp" but I know that one isn't lost.
Btw, if it helps anyone, every Dr Phil file server references House of Hatred by show code 5205, sometimes by "HOH" as well, which they also label House of Judgement files.
Wow! That's impressive! I would be very interested in learning more about scraping AWS servers in order to find old content! It's not full episodes, but it's still impressive. Do you mind if I ask how you got your hands on that tape in the first place?