Tickling material to Australia

[Oddjob0226]

Hidy ho -

I have encountered a problem I don't know how to get around. I tried shipping a VHS tape and a DVD of tickling material to friends in Austraila, but both the VHS and DVD arrived erased! The VHS, we both kind of expected, but the DVD (of my own photos) was kind of surprising.

My pals say that it is because of the airport scanners used. Is there some way around this? Does shipping something by private mail (say Fed Ex) eliminate the problem? Can I package the video material differently so it can't be erased by scanning? Can I ship the stuff by boat? Is there a way I can delcare something to be hand searched instead of scanned since it is video material? How is the Star Trek transporter technology coming along? Surely all of Austraila isn't going without foreign VHS movies or DVDs, format aside.

Has anyone else had such a problem? How did you get around it?

Thanks!

 

[The_Laugher]

Tickling Material To Australia

I had the same problem to back when I had my site and video business. I never did get it resolved however I had a friend tell me that he converted his stuff to DVD and it went OK.

I am wondering though if it is not so much a scanner but a customs issue. They are strict there about adult material. As a mater of fact, I have a friend there (maybe the same one) who wanted to put her work in the video stores and was required to get a license because of the adult content.

I would try converting to DVD or VCD and see how that work.

Good Luck,
The Laugher 🙂

 

[Oddjob0226]

Laugher! How are you!? Been worried about you. Well, not really worried, but you know, hoping things were going okay... I was just in Detroit last summer for worked and enjoyed it. This year, Cleveland.... oh well. I still pull out some of my ol' Laugher tapes. The things you did to poor Kathy's soles, my my...

Well, what I understand from my Aussie friends (the make their own videos, too) that it is an airport security issue. Due to terrorism, in AU everything gets x-rayed and they have sent out numerous tapes only to have them become erased, inclduing a home video of their wedding sent to their daughter in Brazil - to the original, thankfully.

I know nothign about doing anything on a computer as far as coding, etc. nor do I have the equipment, but if the DVD I sent them was erased I'm not sure that a CD or know if a VCD would make any difference. But your help is most appreciated! Thanks for your thoughs. I'll get with them on the VCD thing and see what they have to say.

Is your friend Sharon? 😉

 

[tickletoy3]

I have not tried sending out anything, but have never had any problems importing DVDs. I brought my DVD collection with me (copyrighted mainstream material - not adult) with no problem. They were scanned and whatever other procedures were required, but turned out fine.

 

[The_Laugher]

Tickling Material To Australia

Sorry, I didn't catch the reference to a DVD. I really don't understand how a DVD got erased. A VHS tape, yes. It is magnetic. But a DVD is nothing more then miroscopic holes of different depths that combine to make the image and sound. You can set a powerfull electro-magnet on a DVD and it will nto hurt it.

What might work is to go out and get a capture device for your PC; I used the ADS system that is sold from www.tigerdirect.com Capture it to you hard drive as an MPG file (it's all automatic). and then send the large file to the folks in AU using the following free service:

http://s4.yousendit.com/

Sounds like your firend and mine were one and the same.


The Laugher 🙂

 

[Oddjob0226]

Well, it is an interesting problem to say the least. I will mull these suggestions over, but it IS that DVD-being-erased thing that I find odd. The only conclusion I can come up with is that it was a DVD recorded at my office adn therefore, as a "homemade" DVD, maybe the quality was somehow less and able to get erased that way, not done on a professional machine under pro settings... Except aren't all DVD in essence mechanically the same?

A home made VHS and a professionally done digital Beta are made at a basic level the same way, and have the same inherent weaknesses, so I too am baffled by the blank DVD issue. Unless they just have some kind of amazing and strage security scanning system in Australia.

A capture device doesn sound like a good idea. But if I'm going to go that route I need to get off dial-up and go ahead and get cable, since currently I'm not even all that impressed with DSL. Although it does beat dial-up!

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Never fear!

Science is on the case! 🙂

 

[TMF Jeff]

Personally I've shipped tapes successfully to australia a few times without anything being erased.