Question about rf video comps...

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

Are the following clipped or not?

 

Greatest matches of the decade vol. 1

Greatest matches of the decade vol. 2

Best of the Dynamite Kid

 

Thanks.

 

P.s.  If this is a stupid question...please go easy on me.

[Guest goodhelmet]

Hey man, whether they are clipped or not, you can be guaranteed that the video quality is 4th Generation and that the service will be terrible. Try anyone else who has comps available. E-mail Jeff Lynch[[email protected]]. He has a huge assortment of Japan tapes and could make you your own personal comps (although kinda pricey). Avoid RFVideo. It's just not worth the trouble. If you search on the net, you'll hear all of the horror stories.

[Guest J*ingus]

Some of Best Of DK is clipped, mostly the Calgary stuff, and Bulldogs vs. Misawa & Kobashi was a mere 30 seconds if footage, but the majority of the matches are complete.

[Guest]

I have both the greatest decade comps, some matches are clipped but for the most part they are all there.  The quality is excellent also.  I ahve bought from everyone, don't listen to the guys that shit on rf, they just agree with every other smark and their mother.  Lynch is the best but he is so expensive that its almost not worth it.  Anyway, those 2 comps are cool and defintly worth getting.

[Guest Jubuki]

Wait a minute...

 

RF tapes are $25 a piece, and that's before (the usually slow as fuck) shipping and the hit & miss VQ...so how is Lynch less expensive than that when you can get 8 hours worth of shows from him for just as much, shipping included?

[Guest Kagato Otaku]

Jubuki - Shhhhhh....I can't hear the shilling.

[Guest Tim Cooke]

"I ahve bought from everyone, don't listen to the guys that shit on rf, they just agree with every other smark and their mother."

 

Yea, telling the truth is wrong.

 

Tim, who has never bought from RF for a variety of reasons.

[Guest teke184]

I buy from RF, but that's only because I occasionally need some original shoots.

 

When I first ordered from them, I got copies of their Flair vs. Steamboat and Cactus Jack: SMW and ECW videos.  The Flair-Steamboat one looks remarkably good, IIRC, but the Cactus Jack one looks like it's 10th generation video that's been scraped with sandpaper.  

 

The VQ of the matches on their tapes varies wildly, with the absolute WORST looking stuff probably being their ECW footage.  That's ironic considering their longstanding relationship with ECW and the probability that they've got 1st generation video from every ECW show since 1996 at the least.

[Guest goodhelmet]

I just don't see the point of dealing with RF when the quality is hit or miss (my RF tapes are all misses unfortunately), they don't tell you what matches are clipped, sometimes don't have the matches on that are in advertised at their site, and generally shitty service and overblown prices.

 

You can usually find someone else willing to trade with for the shoots.

 

It's just not worth the bother.

[Guest Rob Van Dam]

So far from RFVideo I've purchased:

Best of Cactus Jack in Japan

Best of ECW Extreme Matches Vol. 1

Best of Raven in ECW Volume 1

CZW Stretched in Smyrna

Best of the Independents 2001

 

and all of the tapes are pretty damn good quality

[Guest Brian]

I got the Best of Cactus Jack from Japan tape and the quality is decent at best, nowhere near the excellent he said it would be. Turned me off puroresu the first time.

[Guest goodhelmet]

"I got the Best of Cactus Jack from Japan tape and the quality is decent at best, nowhere near the excellent he said it would be. Turned me off puroresu the first time."

 

Don't get turned off by puro because you saw a shitty RF comp that featured nothing but Cactus jack. There are plenty of sites that will sell you better quality tapes and point you out to some of the better puro matches.

[Guest KingOfMen]

The only time I ever bought from RF the VQ was horrid and it took TWO months to arrive.  Unless you want a 1st gen shoot then avoid them.

[Guest fouronthefloor77]

I never saw the beef everybody has with RF video,I've bought a lot of old school stuff,Georgia,Mid-South,Florida and Memphis and I don't have a single complaint about the quality.