Buzzr and The Barker Era announced today that 100 fresh episodes of The Price Is Right, "in HD", as they are promoting (?)

The higher-quality transfer does look really nice on streaming. It's smoother and less jarring than any of the other shows that have been converted. In the first act of today's episode, you can even see the indents in the carpet the showcase podiums have left.

Just curious--
How do you "control" the budget on a show such as Card Sharks?  Obviously, for a show like Family Feud, you can stack the questions to where there's only a couple of routes to a win.

I guess my follow-up to anyone who has an eye to this- have game shows ever hired mathematicians to calculate average expected wins in the same way a hopeful casino game developer would publish the math on house edge? Either that, or there's been enough run throughs to calculate budget.

So which 1988 TPIR did Buzzr run in the 5PM slot?

Which was better? For me, Money in the Blank. It offered something new to the space, in the form of incomplete sentences and buzz-in gameplay, with enough breathing room to have fun with wacky clues and responses -- something Pyramid rarely took advantage of, with Dick Clark at the podium. I'm ignoring the Three on a Match-inspired endgame, however, which was a curveball that I ultimately didn't enjoy. We can follow it because we're so familiar with Three on a Match. But seen with fresh eyes, it had to look very strange.

Which had a better shot of getting on the air? Probably Finish Line. Its gameplay immediately looks familiar, and the rhythm of the poems gives the audience a change to digest what's going on. And Poetry in Motion sure looks exciting.

But as discussed in those threads, playing Finish Line with the Pyramid game structure didn't help in milking the humor. The fun poems could be integrated into a different game; but watching people work with most of the information being given to them wasn't satisfying for me.

-Jason

Where are the techies? I need your help for this question.

As many of us know, there’s a VLC link that allows you to watch and record shows on Buzzr. This made me wonder, is there a similar link available for The Price Is Right: The Barker Era channel? If not, are there any alternative methods for recording it?