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Most smart TVs or advanced DVD players should be able to read them off a memory stick. That might be easier than burning them to a whole lot of different DVDs. Is that an option? What is the current format btw?
Thanks!

avi is the format that I have. Around 700MB each for the first two seasons then 350-ish for the last three.

This is to help a friend (not a buddy) who has a life-long obsession with recording types of media.

He has satellite tv and records them onto a tv data box then burns them to DVD.

He is lives outside Oil City, PA on the way to Titusville (medium rural is a fair term) so he is only able to obtain DSL and they charge for data flow so he is screwed re the internet.

Just doing him a favor because he wants the whole set and is having a difficult time compiling it from satellite tv offerings.

I snag movies for him that he remembers from the drive-in as a kid. The Monolith Monsters and Kronos (both 1957) are recent finds. He squealed like a little boy when handed over.

He is sixty three years old. We cannot change his system. He does not want a stick. It's different. Chances are the stack of DVD's I burn will be cataloged, entered into the physical archives and never viewed. Note he still has daily logs of work he performed as a production machinist in the 70's. They are sitting right next to his Graf Zeppelin stamps and the bug collection (sitting on top of the beer label collection).

Just helping out a bro.
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