I've looked around here in Los Angeles locally for services where I could just take them in to have it done, and it's looking like about 10 bucks per tape is the average. Might be worth it just to have it taken care of by a production house that exists just to do that kind of stuff.
Truth is I'm realizing I'm a little leery to just send these video tapes out into the ether with a slight bit of "stranger danger" involved. It's probably about a $500 investment to actually use a service...but, amazingly (And even to my own surprise to be honest) it's an investment I might actually be willing to make. Maybe I could offset the price by selling sets to some of you guys. heh.
But I do have some classics in the pile.
There is one game in particular I'd love to see and never have - it's the double (was it triple) overtime game during the regular season with the jazz and the bulls when jordan got ticked off at the loss. I think it was the first or second year of the delta center existing? Would love to see that.
The Jazz trailed the Bulls 41-17 and somehow won. From January 1998 until the 4th qtr of Game 2 of the NBA Finals, that was the one stretch where the Jazz had both the physical and mental edge over the Jordan Bulls.Game 1 of the WCF of 98 was amazing.
Not because the game was good. We kicked *** by 30+ if I remember right.
But it was when the Lakers came into town jumping up and down chanting, "Down down down, Utah's going down."
Also, I remember the regular season game against the Bulls that here in the Delta Center was a great game too. If memory serves, we dug ourselves a huge hole, were booed at half, and then came back to win it.
Anyway, just a few real random memories of our glory years...
Wow, I'm just now seeing these responses here. Jealous of those who were actually there for the triple overtime game. Saw Stock and Malone play quite a few times, but never saw Jordan or Barkley in person.
I've never seen the damn thing. I just remember people at school talking about it the next day. I'll keep you all posted, I'm definitely going to look into capturing these things and getting them all organized...I'll figure out a distribution plan some way some how.
By the way, there aren't really "laker tapes" vs other tapes...I just recorded them as they came. Typically two per VHS, but there are quite a few long VHSs with 3.
I have a couple of classic games on my computer:
2 games from the 06 Warriors series. One of them is game 2, I think the other is game 5, but I'll have to check
I have game 7 vs Houston that same year.
I have the 2nd half of game 6 vs Houston in 97....."Stockton, open three.....YEAH!"
I think I have game 4 vs Lakers in 1998.
The easiest thing to do would be to put these files on a download site and then everyone could just download them from there.
I used one last year, but at the moment, I can't remember what it was. I'll look it up and let everyone know.