Do not buy the uni/ku dvd!!!!!

[ubuntuCAT]

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You looked at that ad, with the cheapest DVD cover I've ever seen depicted, and thought you were getting a Hollywood quality piece of film?

The funny part is the DVD cover depicted, doesn't look at all like the one I got. It's even worse and cheaper looking! lol.

But seriously, I guess I just couldn't believe it was just burned on a DVD-R and that the video quality would be crap.

[Panther Daddie]

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Just to make a small correction, the people at Mudd Advertising have been making the end of year UNI Basketball banquet video for about the last 7 years or so. Last year, Eric & his company & Mudd Advertising joined forces to put out the DVD that was for sale. Mudd Advertising did the first half of the video (the game by game highlights with Rima audio) & Eric's staff put together the last half of the video (the behind the scenes stuff).

This year Mudd Advertising will be doing the end of year Banquet video again. As far as I know, the video is just for the banquet & will NOT be for sale. Not 100% sure on that, but pretty sure.

[dustj888]

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Just to make a small correction, the people at Mudd Advertising have been making the end of year UNI Basketball banquet video for about the last 7 years or so. Last year, Eric & his company & Mudd Advertising joined forces to put out the DVD that was for sale. Mudd Advertising did the first half of the video (the game by game highlights with Rima audio) & Eric's staff put together the last half of the video (the behind the scenes stuff).

This year Mudd Advertising will be doing the end of year Banquet video again. As far as I know, the video is just for the banquet & will NOT be for sale. Not 100% sure on that, but pretty sure.

If this is true I will be very disappointed. After that great season they could make some good bank selling this. I know I would pay a decent price for a copy.

[Newsbreaker]

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If this is true I will be very disappointed. After that great season they could make some good bank selling this. I know I would pay a decent price for a copy.

Learfield owns the video rights now, iirc.

[BCPanther]

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I can't imagine they won't sell a DVD. Way too much revenue potential to ignore.

[Newsbreaker]

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I can't imagine they won't sell a DVD. Way too much revenue potential to ignore.

You would think, but look at this thread. If they do it cheap enough to make a significant profit, people ***** and moan about the quality. If they run the DVD's through a more professional, first-run processing facility then the costs are much higher, especially for what is essentially an extremely limited run.

It might not be as obvious as it appears.

[BCPanther]

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You would think, but look at this thread. If they do it cheap enough to make a significant profit, people ***** and moan about the quality. If they run the DVD's through a more professional, first-run processing facility then the costs are much higher, especially for what is essentially an extremely limited run.

It might not be as obvious as it appears.

You are right Newsy.

You're never going to be able to make everybody happy...

[06panther10]

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I'm sure they will sell a DVD. For the past several years, people have been able to purchase highlight DVD's from both football and basketball from the athletic department.

[Newsbreaker]

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You are right Newsy.

You're never going to be able to make everybody happy...

I do agree with you that they should be able to offer a reasonably priced DVD of reasonable quality and should be able to make a profit on it. The people, like the ones in this thread, who cry about the quality they are getting can be left to stew in their own misery.

[UNI MadCat]

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He has every right to complain. In fact, the only reason I'd give him for just sucking it up would be IF UNI did this and the proceeds went to the PSC. But since this is an NCAA thing, screw them and complain away. Though I'd suggest an email/call to them would accomplish more.

[ubuntuCAT]

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You are right Newsy.

You're never going to be able to make everybody happy...

Just to clarify I have several of the year end DVDs UNI put out for football & basketball and have been very happy with the quality of the video, content, and physical media.

They don't compare to the crap from the NCAA (which was more expensive).

[ceaser150]

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Those of you who are not happy with the DVD could invest a little under $100 and get a DVD recorder and record the games on your own. I've done this for all of the UNI NCAA games, MVC tourney games, and a few other random games the last few years.

[UNI83]

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Those of you who are not happy with the DVD could invest a little under $100 and get a DVD recorder and record the games on your own. I've done this for all of the UNI NCAA games, MVC tourney games, and a few other random games the last few years.

Or a DVR/TiVo. There is ways to get shows from those to DVD's.

[PantherObserver]

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Yeah Im wondering how anyone that is a UNI fan could have not recorded this on their own? I mean it was the biggest game in school history going in, even if we would have lost...

Anyway, I have the game recorded on a standard DVD (2 actually, 1 disc first half and 1 disc second half, for best quality) from the HD Broadcast. Its not possible to capture HD on a DVD unless you have a Blu-Ray burner, which almost nobody does at this point. But my copy is the widescreen HD feed, in SD quality. I also recorded some of the ESPNews coverage after the game. Not bad for homemade, and sounds like a whole lot more than what the "official" dvd came with.

[SpanishMoon]

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Let's try to have some perspective here.

I just read a 25 page study commissioned by UNI to justify the continued existence of their football program.

The Regents are pressuring UNI's administration to come up with a way to reduce or eliminate $5 million in funding from the general fund.

And right here on UNI's own fan message board, someone is encouraging UNI fans to not buy a DVD of the greatest hoops win in UNI history because it is not HD quality?

Perhaps there is a bigger picture here. Perhaps it is more important to financially support UNI athletics right now than complain that you are not satisfied with the pixel count on your DVD.

Where can one read this report on UNI dropping football? I have been wondering if this is the best thing to do and I would like to read this report and find out about the study so I can be an informed person. Because if you just say UNI should drop football you are called Moron.