Are the MST3K streams on Youtube worth ripping? (midwest.social)

submitted 1 day ago by DemBoSain@midwest.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've seen a lot of official MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000, ya boob) getting streamed on Youtube. I have a lot of these already from quite a while ago, sourced from various places. Some from my own DVD rips (thanks Netflix), downloaded DVD rips, and a small amount of "lost" content coming from VHS rips off broadcast.

Are the Youtube streams worth archiving? I was specifically looking at a livestream for Season 1 that "includes lost host segments". I was going to download it through Newpipe, but I didn't see the option on this stream (granted, I didn't look too deeply).

Are these streams worth the time if I already have the episodes? Have they been cleaned-up in any way?

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[-] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 4 points 1 day ago

I'd wager your DVD rips are same quality, most stuff from the 90's touched by computer anything is 480p at the source. VHS, it would be an improvement probably.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 hours ago

Depends on if they digitized the YouTube vids from the original Betacam broadcast tapes.

I’m guessing a bit here, but it was a really dominant format at the time, and in the later years of the series, would have been a digital format at 720x486 resolution.