FYI for those of you who have been waiting for me to resume DVD productions (because they prefer the 4 times higher picture resolution to download files) I have now completed my move from South Florida to Central Florida and recovered all my DVD mastertape archives that were in storage, so I am able to produce DVDs again.

Also, as part of the moving process and to save shelf space, I am going to recycle over 500 of the older DVDs that were made from old VHS collections in the 1980's and 90's. These full 2hr DVDs collections have never been posted online (only extracts from them). I am moving to online archives and need to make space on my storage shelves. If you wish to adopt or rescue any of these old DVDs at $1 each before they are disposed of for good see a detailed list of the items available at http://megastore.wamtec.com

MK

If there are any GYOB videos would love to get them.

That is a huge undertaking moving to online storage. Much better than physical that can get damaged imho.

Mark, just to confirm... EVERY title listed on that site is $1 apiece? No matter what the price says? Or is it just specific titles you have?

Let me know as it's a bit confusing. Some of the volumes on that page were very recent (like 2017) so I can't imagine they're VHS transfers.

Another Question Mark,

Are you just junking the DVDS (and have the clips stored digitally) or are these clips basically going up in smoke forever?

Mark's digital migration process was ... complicated. He's explained it to me privately a couple of times and I would encourage him to do so here.

To answer a few questions

- Rich.....you must be looking at the wrong listing. It is not everything on my entire database going for a $1....the $1 items are on my recycle list....which is here

http://wamtec.com/entrance/tapelists/RECYCLE_WAM.html

- Zan....no...I am not junking everything....just the oldest DVD copies that were created from old VHS tapes made in the 1980's and 90's. Some stuff is going up in smoke forever...due to the changing times and politcal correctness....e.g. a lot of folks sent me their VHS tapes 20 years ago that included many scenes from kids gameshows like Fun House....which cannot be posted or hosted online these days (unless your name is Mr Youtube).

- Regis....it's not that complicated actually.....just a lot of grunt work to catalog everything from VHS and then later convert it to DVDs and online files.

- Jason....perhaps ""compulsive hoarding" is something I am guilty of....but then again I don't spend any more time on my hpbbies than a person who collects stamps or baseball cards....and being a wam fan is no different to being a football fan. The only difference is that a football fan can tell you who won the FA Cup for the last 50 years...and I can tell you what wam scenes have happened in the movies for the last 80 years.

As for a picture of what my house looked like with all my collections of stuff....I may have been a hoarder but actually I am incredibly well organized and had everything neatly on shelves in 3 spare bedrooms at my house. As the saying goes "a place for everything and everything in it's place"....so my archives were as neat a the books on shelves at the Public Library. Now...my wife's shoe closet is another matter....that has always looked like a thrift shop where a bomb had just exploded and everything is all over the place.

Thanks for the specific link, Mark... Just shot you an email to confirm the DVDs I want are still available.

Back in the day I was more of a "WAM hoarder" myself... Many of which were WAMTEC tapes! But VHS took up a TON of space in comparison to DVD.... Right now my "physical" WAM collection is almost totally physical discs of all the SS releases over the years. (Yes I have the contents on hard drives as well, but something about actual discs makes me happy.)

But there's a single cardboard box which has some DVDs from various producers... Most of the Hurley collection... and even a few WAMTEC discs. (But just a few... Most of my orders were VHS and those have been mostly lost to the ages...)

So...can anyone purchase these or just club members?

Mark, I'm just curious what kind of service/plan do you use for redundant/backup data storage?

I've been using CrashPlan for a while, they claim to have "unlimited" space and I have upload my 2 TB WAM collection to them, although yours is probably more sizeable especially if you have uncompressed videos.

This is an awesome opportunity so I have emailed you my list.

Well, good luck .... as of whenever Mark got up this morning, 90% of what I asked for was already claimed. It's almost as if there's still a market for physical media or something.

When I wrote "complicated" above, I meant that, as I understood it, Mark re-edited the cliptapes when he digitized them for one-hour download files, and the original versions no longer exist. In other words, some of the content from, say, MK75 may have been ported over to a later MK volume, but MK75 as a two-hour unit is no longer purchasable. Also, there's no way to cross-reference between a scene on MK75 and its new home on MK900 or wherever. I was surprised that Mark still had any physical copies of his original cliptape volumes, and I would assume this batch of DVDs were the last ones in existence. All during the VHS era I'd kept a running list of cliptapes to circle back and pick up if I ever won the lottery, and one day it was suddenly obsolete.

Anyhow, Mark can correct any of the above if I have it wrong. I have no idea of Wamtec's health as a content aggregator in the era when people expect everything to be on the internet, free, forever; I have to quibble with some of Mark's archival choices, but I still feel like this is a useful resource, or should be.

I don't think it would take long if enough people offered to donate their time to help digitize the collection.

Hey guys.....I did not realize that the messy items were going to be so popular. I had over 500 DVDs listed for recycling and there were an equal number of wetlook dvds, underwater dvds and messy dvds. Guess what....it seems that messy fans are the most fanatical because almost all the messy dvds are now gone and I received far more emails from messy fans than from wetlook fans or underwater fans. Who knew....that messy fans were much more interested my old stuff than the wetlook fans. Anyway....with messy fans in a feeding frenzy, some people are upset that the items they wanted have already been taken.....so.....here is what I will do. To those who wanted something that was already taken, go choose a download file from my online archives here...

http://megastore.wamtec.com/clips.php?catid=4

and I will send you a FREE download code for 1 item that you want.

Please contact me via email...not the UMD messaging system....cos I rarely check that.

To answer some other questions...

- I think the diference between a hoarder and a collector is....one is totally disorganized and untidy with clutter....and the other is totally organized and has everything neatly arranged and filed. Ask a hoarder...."can you find me xyz"...and they cannot find it among all their clutter.....but ask a collector the same question....and they can find something almost instantly. My wife is a hoarder....but I am a collector....and the only reason our house is not a complete mess is because I constantly have to badger my wife to organize her clutter.

- I don't use cloud storage for my archives....because I don't trust that concept. I don't want the NSA or UK;s GCHQ hacking into my files and making them public If Julian Assange wants to see my stuff....he needs to join one of my sites as a member....ha ha. Seriously, I have all my stuff archived on miniDV tapes and AVCHD disks, with backups on DVD, and also the files are backed up with TheMothership and UMD on their servers and I have more local backups on external 5TB hard drives.

- thanks....I don't need any help digitizing my collection....cos I have been doing this project for the last 7 years and have now completed digitizing everythiing. I have junked a lot of stuff over the years (mainly the poor copies of media I later replaced with fresh high res copies, and dumped the kids gameshow stuff that folks used to send me on their VHS tapes etc)

MK

I guess im too late to ask for anything.

That's a kind offer Mark, and yes, I was surprised the messy stuff went so quick too!

Too bad, I had most of the cliptapes I wanted on VHS but really didn't digitize them. I would've loved physical copies that didn't take up the space. But no worries, most of what I wanted was cliptapes and specific things I'd already seen but just lost over the years.

I'd be interested to PM with whoever got the 5 Hurley discs to arrange getting copies of the same, either in physical form or ISO rips via Dropbox/Google Drive.