thanks to ZeroCool finally got the kinks worked out of my setup, when in doubt ask the experts am-i-right?
SP VHS transfered w/ an svhs & hdpvr via svideo, 13.5 mb/s vbr w/ 384 kb/s ac3 audio .ts recontainered to mkv
US toonami broadcast aired either nov 24 2000 or april 13 2001, leaning towards the later as the next movie on the tape was recorded june something 2001, full broadcast including commercials and bumpers
got a bunch more tapes to transfer as well as a shit load im transfering for a friend, prob just gonna upload the entire thing in one go outside the 3 dbz movies as 1 & 3 are back to back on the same tape, enjoy
I have a lot of experience finding air dates, or a range of possible dates through commercials. So I took a look to see what I could find since you made it easy with only 2 choices of exact dates.
At 8min 43sec the commercial says Courage the Cowardly Dog airs tonight, Friday at 7pm E/P. The air dates you mentioned are both Fridays (I wonder where you got those dates). That commercial a few seconds later says cartoonnetwork.com, so I went to archive.org to see if I could find the old Cartoon Network TV schedules. I couldn’t find those exact dates, but what I found was close enough. On December 15 and 22 courage the cowardly dog aired at 10pm, but on April 27 2001 it aired at 7pm and has an advertisement for that show in the left column that says it airs on Fridays at 7pm. So just from this, the DBZ Movie is definitely from April 13, 2001.
Cartoon network TV schedules:
Friday December 22, 2000
https://web.archive.org/web/20001212131100/http://alt.cartoonnetwork.com/Schedule/1,2989,CTN|10||Eastern,00.html
Friday December 15, 2000
https://web.archive.org/web/20001212202300/http://alt.cartoonnetwork.com/Schedule/1,2989,CTN|3||Eastern,00.html
Friday April 27, 2001
https://web.archive.org/web/20010505054757/http://alt.cartoonnetwork.com/Schedule/1,2989,CTN|-8||Eastern,00.html
I felt stupid for wasting so much time with that since if I just moved on, I would have seen the next 2 things (there may be more, but it isn’t necessary to look further). I just assumed the commercials wouldn’t hint at much since you weren’t sure of the date.
At 8min 50sec it shows the date April 13, 2001 in small print below the toll free number. It seems that the toll free number must be called on only that day. The use for the toll free number was probably mentioned in an earlier commercial break. It looks like it is for some sort of a contest, maybe to win that toy that was shown.
At 9min 15sec it says Joe Dirt Now Playing, which would mean it is in theaters, and Joe Dirt release date in theaters was April 11, 2001.
@SPFL im working on learning this adobe thing rn to help w/ the westwood sync so prob gonna let em all transfer in the background and just upload each tape as its own mkv, after its done i might go back and isolate individual episodes, depends on if my work makes me quarantine again or not
@Impakt i know at least 15 grabbed it and ran, dunno why they couldnt find room for a 2-1/2 gig file but whatevs more just wanted to get it out there before the tape completly degrades
@mrbean i compaired the "next fri @" bumpers to this https://toonami.fandom.com/wiki/Toonami_Lineups_(1997-2004)#February_1_-_March_12.2C_1999_Lineup, but thanks for the assist im pretty sure i know when 1 & 3 aired but theres a few tapes where i have no idea
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