Excellent Kevin, I'm gonna order it now!!!

 

(Update:  You get an error when you add it to your cart)

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  Very cool!  I'll be putting my order in.

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  The original CD is still a collector's item in that it has the original Christmas episode that is only found on that disc and has never been released to the public.  (Short of piracy of course)  That episode will not be included in the 2 Disc set, as it was a one-time offering for those folks who bought the original CD.  (Which was limited to about 200 discs if I recall)

  The hosting charge for the file server is a little over $50 a month.  We distribute a lot of files to a lot of people and it consumes a lot of resources.  Cheaper hosting exists but was a problem when more than 200 simultaneous connections occured as it would break people's connections and dump them.  This is typically what budget hosts do.  Most podcasts don't have that problem because they don't get 200+ downloads at the exact same time.  We've been blessed with that issue, however, so we need more resilient hosting.  (Other podcasts experimented with torrent based feeds, which we tried in the past with poor results.)  We let you download the show, a large portion of old shows, stream the show, and we produce a very high quality feed.  Not to mention the show has gotten much longer which makes up larger file sizes overall.  All that together uses up a hella-lotta bandwith.  And we've been warned twice this year that we're getting close to going over our set amount.  That tends to only happen when we do Extended during a busy month.  But never the less, it adds up, so hopefully we can sell a few discs to folks and off-set the expense. 

  The reason it's $21 is to make it higher than a single tier contest entry.  It's not super cheap, as you can buy a game for the same money, but I wanted to offer it to people who wanted the COMPLETE collection and a nice piece of VGN history.  There is hundreds of hours of content here.  All the memories, all the guests, all the belches.  The whole thing.  Plus the never before heard stuff.  And I might throw in some extra stuff.  Depends.  But as it stands, I think it's a fair price for what it is.  I really think in twenty years, it'll be fun to go back and listen to some of this old stuff and remember not just the stuff that we did and said on the show, but the time period of gaming that was happening then.  The first shows predate Halo 2, Half Life 2, and the Nintendo DS.   That's a lot of history. 

 

Hey K-man . Will this be available in a limited supply or will you be able to burn some new one's if there's demand . I want to buy this, but I wont be able to do it before I reach Canada, which is basically in Jan. . Will it get exhausted or something in supply coz someone like Jedi will buy all of them, and build a castle out of it, or what ??

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awesome, ill order when my next check comes.

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Niyon wrote I still have that old VGN cd. I have to go find it again, but I basically haven't touched it. But I will drop the money on this too.

 

Blasphemy!

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  I intend to use printable DVD-R Dual Layer discs.  At the moment I haven't focused on what will be on the disc itself.  And I'll "probably" print a back cover.  If any of you would like to donate some graphics for either portion, I'll take them.  Just send them to editor@videogamenews.com If more than one person submits something, I'll let people pick which graphics they want on their disc.  Keep in mind a DVD is like a donut and has a big hole in the middle.  So sending a square graphic with words in the middle won't work so well. 

  Otherwise, if no one is interested, I'll piece together some zombies and eyeballs with satan pictures and use that.  You know how it is.

Peace

i'll definitely buy this kevin :) you guys run a unique show

just a few more questions for you:
will this include any of those higher quality audio files? (this isn't important, just wondering)
will it include the "Best Of" episodes? again, i'm just wondering

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24k...That seemed crazy to me because I just don't believe that anyone in 2004 and 2005 was still on dial up listening to VGN.

Btw, you started doing 128k audio for the Wasteland warriors when that came about. Before WW it was all 24k afaik.

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