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Asking @rsclassicfanforever if they know if these missing episodes actually got uploaded or not. 3172, 3255 and 3288?

Trolling is a rife over there, with the clapped-out Brooke jokes and the usual suspects trying to get a rise out people. It becomes stale after a while.

What I’m more concerned about is the inferior audio in some of the episodes. At first I thought I was imagining it, but I started noticing that some episodes sound like they’re in mono. Audio sounds somewhat muffled and blended together, the way mono sounds like when you split one channel audio into two. Other episodes sound much clearer and fuller with clear separation in both the left and right channels, and a lot louder as well (and they sound amazing). Interestingly the bad audio only seems to be affecting the 60 fps videos. You probably won't notice it unless you wear headphones like I do, but even I've noticed it playing on laptop speakers.

YouTube is partly responsible. The platform is trying to save money on bandwidth by lowering the bitrate of 1080p videos and hoping people won't notice the degradation too much. But if you pay for Premium you might get the "Enhanced Bitrate". I say might because not every video gets it and it is limited to 1080p30. I'm currently trialing Premium. On some of the S13 videos, I do notice a marginal improvement but I do not think it's worth paying for at this stage.

It's not an article, it's in a forum thread from what I see. What is it with people spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories?

Perhaps Videoland were given the master tapes of those episodes and they are the only copies available. That's the only logical explanation I can think of.

Awesome! I'm just putting the finishing touches to it, adding the relevant columns. Now I can start appointing editors to it, unless one of you here wants to take ownership of the document?

A little while back, someone was asking if there was a spreadsheet to track uploads in the vault so I went ahead and created one. Would anybody here be interested in that? Vault Tracker

Haha yeah. That voiceover lady's remark during the credits: "Taylor's clearly been in some sort of spat, too. Most unusual to be punched in the upper lip only, though". Referencing the actress's obsession with cosmetic procedures. We never got voiceovers like that.

Again, the two latest episodes (3185 and 3186) are in 24 fps and they look jerky. You can't unsee it.

That's good to hear! I'm really enjoying S13 a lot. Despite a few issues, the episodes look amazingly crisp. It was well worth the wait!

Yep, I have made a record of it, just to add to the ever growing list of problems with this channel. You know what's really getting on my nerves? The constant frame rate fluctuations from video to video. You have some episodes in 24 fps (Frames Per Second), some in 30 fps and some in 60 fps (Bold was recorded in 60 fps I believe). I know it seems like a minor detail, but it can have pretty disasterous affects on motion and smoothness. If you want to compare, look at episode 3179 which is in 60 fps, 3180 which is in 30 fps and 3181 which is in 24 fps and you will see the difference.

I don't think I would faint, unless the script dictated I do so 🤣

I remember @rsclassicfanforever saying that they have at least two years worth of episodes lined up, but from Season 12 onward. No idea what they're doing with 9-11. Probably still in the pipeline to be converted from tape. I noticed #3172 isn't in the schedule, even though #3173 and #3174 are. So who knows?

How annoying, that is three episodes now. And possibly dozens more to come. Ugh. @Althea Davis Can you please download the incorrect videos and relabel them?

I knew very early on when they started uploading episodes from the beginning that mistakes were going to be made and that we needed some kind of a tool to keep track of it, so that's when I decided to make one from scratch. Hopefully the people running the channel see it and take notes from it. For those keeping track of the document, I have added the links to an additional 1500 episodes in the J column. Everything from Season 23 to 31 is playable. I also added a new Paramount+ column for the latest episodes. I'm still in the process of adding links to episodes from Seasons 18-22, but it will take a bit longer as there are so many missing episodes.

Looks like we have 3151 in the vault (in English) but not 3152. An icon? I've never really thought of myself as that, but thank you 😊

Wow, I don't think they care about copyright anymore. It looks like they want to release everything into the public domain. And it should still generate some form of guaranteed income for years to come. Great business decision IMO. I know I criticise Brad Bell a fair bit, but I think he is a legend for doing this and so are the people working behind the scenes trying to get this all out there. I had my doubts, but I'm happy to have been proven wrong.

Loved watching Stephanie eat crow and get her comeuppance later on 🤣 2005 was such a classic year.

KKL learnt from the best. Susan was considered a mentor to many young actors on the set. She was their teacher. She understood the business more than anyone ever could. And you can definitely see KKL's acting did improve over the years. But not enough for some people's standards it seems. People are entitled to their opinions I guess.

Thanks @Althea Davis! I can't help but think these episodes have seen some software up-scaling. There's no way the picture is that sharp and detailed from videotape. Unless they recorded on some higher quality tape format?

Thank you 🙏 I'm amazed how efficient modern day compression algorithms are that we can squeeze that much image quality into 140 MB. Even the sound is amazing.

I wish we could keep both. But for the sake of frugality of the vault, yes go ahead with the conversion if there is no quality loss.

Yup, they delivered the goods. Props to them!

I think it's perfectly normal. Someone has to do it and it's way better if more people can get involved. When I started doing this, it was only to track episode numbers and air dates since we didn't have all the available information at the time (only two short years ago). But I'm amazed how far we've come in those two years. It has been a collaborative effort. That's why I think this community rocks! Everyone here wants to contribute something, no matter how big or small it is.