[last updated: January 24]
In late December I made a post on this cool forum:
https://www.underwaterclipsource.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=37572
….and it’s about time that I post here about in the page as well!
I posted this on the forum on December 29:
Hopefully you know my post about an episode from S.O.S. Barracuda which includes something VERY, VERY, VERY RARE…..
http://frogwoman.org/female-scuba-diver … -barracuda
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S.O.S. Barracuda is a german series consisting out of 8 movies made from 1997 to 2002.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1169951
During the summer of 2018 I heard that there was a rather fantastic scene (with some flaws) in one of the movies.
But I thought I would probably never see it. These movies weren’t shown since the early 2000’s in german TV and there are no DVD/Blu-ray releases.
Then I made a request for it on my blog.
I was very lucky to get videos files from a friendly guy who read my request about these movies.
I subscribed to an email-alert that I would get if these movies ever would be shown again here in german TV.
Since, as I said, the movies weren’t shown for over 15 years….I had very little hope that they would ever be shown again.
But yesterday I got such an email alert….. 
…I was quite shocked….in a good way 
On January 23 a first movie of that show is shown on “RTL Passion” (german pay TV).
Oddly enough they show movie number 3…at first. 
At my place where I have cable….I can’t get that channel, even I would want to.
I would love to get recordings of all 8 movies.
AS I understand only 2 or 3 have scuba content in it.
But I want all of them in a good quality.
Especially that one with the epic scuba drowning!!!!
Hopefully the channel will show all of them….
I will try to figure out if there is a way in which I could get these movies in nice quality files.
Has anyone experience in recording from a TV airing? In a way that you would have a quality file on the computer afterwards?
I have a digital recorder which I use to record movies all the time. But they are then on that recorder and can’t be moved to anywhere else.
I also have an older recorder with DVD drive, which I could use to get it to the computer….but as I said, I can’t get that channel so….both recorders are not an option in this case.
Perhaps getting it from a streaming site would be an option…
I hope someone here can help with advice!
Or perhaps even record these movies…
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*EDIT* January 24th:
All issues have been figured out and I got the first one, check out the new post from January 24 for the scenes from the first movie.
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You can find the answers I got in the forum itself as I don’t want the made this post too long.
Well, I really hope that they will air all these 8 movies, especially the ones with female scuba content off course….
Will keep you updated!
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Hi Siggi80,
Wow that is fantastic news that those SOS Baracuda movies will be airing! Its a great opportunity to get much high quality clips of all the scuba scenes, especially the amazing scuba girl air hose cut scene above!
I don’t have any experience getting aired shows onto computer files myself but if you did get them on one of your recorders, surely connecting that box to a PC capture card with a HDMI cable would let you save a digital file version? Maybe other members can confirm that or suggest other ideas?
I live in the UK so can’t access RTL channels over the air via here but perhaps the channel is available via a streaming service or IPTV offering which would let you record the show to a PC capture card software?
Right now, it looks like the only option for me is to buy me access to TVNow for 5 Euro a month. Then I can stream it on my PC. The main question remains how I can record that stream as it most likely will be heavily protected against users who wan’t to download it.
A shame it doesn’t run on ARD or ZDF the two biggest networks here in germany. They have a streaming portal on which you can rather easily download anything in all sort of picture qualities.
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Well, perhaps someone has access to the channel AND knows how to record it. That would be another great option 😉