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[VIP] Disc Preservation Project - Universal Studios Florida 1990 & 1995 Electronic Press Kits

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For many years, Spook Central has spearheaded the Ghostbusters PDF eBook Preservation Project, an effort among fans to preserve out-of-print Ghostbusters books so that pieces of the franchise's history are available to all, and are not lost to time, or held hostage by price-gouging aftermarket sellers. Thanks to the gracious amount of webspace provided by Raffaele, Spook Central is able to do the same with selected fan-made and promotional digital disc content. I have a few discs that are suitable for the Disc Preservation Project, though if the primary content from them ends up on an official, commercially-available, easy-to-obtain Blu-ray/DVD/whatever, then I won't include it in the project (or will remove it if it's already been included). This is about preservation, not piracy.
Originally, the plan was to make .ISO images files available, which could be downloaded and burned onto DVD-R discs, which would give you an exact copy of the original DVD. However, even with the gracious amount of webspace provided to Spook Central, I find that that may not be completely feasible in the long-term. Most of the disc images are 4GB each, and that adds up pretty quickly. Also, some people may not be able to to download files that large. There's also the concern that there may not be many dinosaurs like me left, who would prefer a "physical disc"-suitable file. With all of that in mind, I felt that the best thing for the project is to proceed with DVD-ripped .MKV video files of selected content from each disc. These files would have the same quality as the video on the disc (I won't recompress them), but they could be immediately played without the need to burn a disc or mount an image file. Anyone who does want the .ISO image files for all of the discs in the project, can buy the limited-edition physical flash drive release, which is a copy of my master flash drive for the small amount of people who may want those files.

Years ago, I purchased a bootleg DVD on eBay that is titled "Universal Studios Florida Press and Promotional Videos Volume 1". It contains the 1990 & 1995 Electronic Press Kits, as well as a short 2000 promotional travel video. The Ghostbusters attraction (and street scene) is featured/mentioned in the 1990 EPK from 3:43-4:10, 14:54-18:24, and 46:40-47:15. There's only a few seconds of a Ghostbusters street scene in the 1995 EPK from 23:48-23:57 (the other clip from 17:39-18:54 is just a cutdown of the 1990 EPK footage).
While I would love to include both complete EPKs, I don't think they're worth it for the huge amount of space they take up. The 1990 EPK runs 55:40 and is 2.2 GB, and the 1995 EPK runs 29:56 and is 1.2 GB. Both have audio that is in the left channel only. That is over 3 Gigabytes of space taken up by something with only a few minutes, or a few seconds, of Ghostbusters content. So, in this case, I opted to just rip and edit together only the Ghostbusters segments from the DVDs. It's not an uncompressed exact rip because I also took the opportunity to fix the audio. The videos are presented in MPEG4 .mp4 format in 640x480. 1990 EPK is 27 MB, 1995 EPK is 2.2 MB. Some framegrabs are also included in two separate zip files.
Disclaimer: No copyright infringement is intended with the content on this page. The presentation of disc content is done solely to preserve materials that are no longer being published, or in the case of fan-made discs, may have never been made available for public purchase in the first place. These materials will be lost and gone forever if the fans don't properly preserve them. Please note that the money paid to me as a Spook Central supporter is for my hard work in bringing this material to you since August 1996. You are not paying for the content itself. The money I receive is used to fund Spook Central and to pay for my living expenses.
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