I have bought lots from classicfights.net These kinda' sites are for rarer fights. If you're looking for modern 'career sets' download them for free from S I M BR OS as stated above. I do not mean this weekend, or last weekends fights MODs! I mean of the Mosley, De La Hoya variety.
Hello, I have some cool fight dvds that I want to get rid of. I dont know if its cool to leave my contact info, or if you have to private message me. But either way, I am really into quality stuff from the 60s 70s and 80s. If you want a list, send me a message.
Maybe the one positive that could come out of Ali's passing would be if parties could come together & professional, high quality DVDs or Blu Rays of his fights could be released. Hopefully there would be enough interest that more boxers fights could be made available. Like old tv shows or films, these things need to be restored while they're in decent shape. Unlikely I know. I'd love to find a decent dealer that didn't copy fights from other sellers. I used Boxing Junkies for an Ali set & many DVDs were from customizedvds.com. Many were really blurry. The only positive with them was I did get a lot of fights.
dawnofthedead: you made a post a while back advising all to avoid buying DVDs from Boxing Royalty (in South Africa), but you didn't explain why. What was their problem? Poor quality? Untrustworthy? Something else?
Like flea, I don't get buying fights. You could spend all of the rest of your life - literally - watching boxing on YT and not get through it all.
I always scratch my head when a guy says he is looking for some random fight broadcast from the 70s - where the only known version is from some dude who had the foresight to record it with a film camera he had off a TV in his living room with only antenna reception (during an electrical storm, typicallly - LOL) or with his brand new beta recorder with tapes back then that cost a fortune -- and they want it in 8K or some nonsense that just came out, oh, with zero noise in the picture, AND from the absolute beginning of the broadcast to the closing credits, WITH perfect stereo sound, OH, and all the unaired undercard fights, too. And, they don't want to pay anything for it. Because, you know, there's YouTube. It's like, dude, it has taken 50 years to get to this point in terms of video quality and the availability of fights. People suck, basically. (LOL)
Yeah cos it’s too expensive to make all that restoration work especially for such a low profile fight but the technology must be there. You got all these ancient Hollywood films from 70 or 80 years ago and they all get restored and released on Blu-ray and 4K discs so it can be done. Most major fights from the 60s and 70s onwards were shown live on nationwide TV so they would have been broadcast quality at the very least which is a good starting point for restoration and upgrades.
Yes, and restoration of films costs nothing for major studios to do. (rolls eyes) So, why doesn't Joe No-Name find the perfect version of the original masters of boxing matches from a half century ago and make 4K versions and give it to you for $10. I wasn't speaking about you specifically, but Now I Am. People suck. If it was so easy, everyone could do it themselves. It's so easy to record stuff now live. Yet, how much do we all miss that we have to go back and find that was recorded by someone else? Multiply that by a thousand and that's how difficult it was to see everything even 20 years ago. Forget 50 years ago, when 99.99 percent of the population around the world had nothing to record anything on and fights were NEVER reshown once they aired. We're lucky with the footage we have, frankly. Tip of the hat to all the "recording pioneers" who thought to aim a film camera at a TV screen (and keep the film) or hit "record" on their coffee-table size betamax recorder that became obsolete only a few years later (and keep the tape).
I don't buy boxing DVD's but can see some of the reasons why others would - Superior picture and audio quality compared to YT Once you have a DVD it's yours forever and with proper storage won't decline, YT vids are prone to being deleted Many people like building a collection You can watch the fights on a big screen TV (not everyone has the internet connected to their TV set) By buying from a trader you're helping someone to make a living rather than getting it for free on YT
I don't really think this is true any more. Certainly stuff like this: This content is protected Looks as great as tv can look when I run it through my set up onto tv. Stuff like this: This content is protected How exactly does it being on DVD enhance its sound or quality? With a downloader you can get yourself a digital file that will last literally thousands of years longer than your DVD. As above. I think this is what it boils down to, a sort of technofear/technofobia. But this stuff isn't rocket science. It is NOT hard. Even just to download stuff of YT all you have to do is google "DOWNLOADING STUFF OF YT" and you're away. Still, people are wealthy enough that they are as well buying it as getting it for free by learning, more power to them I suppose. maybe.
True there are a lot of fights in HD on YT but the majority are not. It's also true you can build a digital collection but many people prefer physical media.
