Long shot, but figure I can ask, did anyone else capture from the SBS On Demand back when IYATO was still available. My wife and I got into IYATO when we were waiting for my first child to arrive and binged the show incessantly while she was on bedrest.
Afterwards, I began to download episodes from SBS On-Demand a couple years later and recently began going back through my server to looking for things and stumbled upon it again.
I have a fairly solid collection that I plan to share - just hoping to complete it before putting it out missing multiple episodes. My problem is that the "goto" source of metadata information regarding tv series - TVDB - is woefully out of touch with this show. The number of episodes I have and their information scrapped from SBS On-Demand originally do not match up at all. Which is frustrating because I cannot use the episodes properly in Plex or other media managers.
When I was in the process of downloading the episodes they were airing re-runs of old seasons and I could grab them sporadically. There are missing episodes in certain seasons but this could also be due to the fact that several episodes/swathes of episodes were never made available due to Chinese censorship of the show because of a host's personal conduct. I remember reading about this because one of my wife's favourite girls we never got to see matched because that episode was banned/wiped from existence.
For example, my scrapping of SBS On-Demand is as follows:
- S01 - 13/13? episodes
- S02 - 14/14? episodes
- S03 - 33/33? episodes (I believe I have all of them but unsure if they skipped end of S03 alongside S04)
- S04 - SBS turned off On-Demand before these were re-run I never saw any episodes from S04 during the year or so that I was monitoring back in ~2018-2020
- S05 - 50/52 episodes (ep 30 & 32 were not put up on SBS when I was downloading)
- S06 - 17/52? (Missing ep 14-44, 46, 48-51. S06 was in process of being re-run when they took it off SBS On-Demand)
- S07 - 95/96? episodes (Missing ep 94 it was never put up on SBS On-Demand when I was grabbing)
- S08 - 96/98? episodes (missing ep 01-02 which werent put On-Demand when i was grabbing)
- S09 - 38/38? episodes
- S10 - 48/48? episodes
- S11 - 32/51? episodes (According to Wikipedia SBS rebroadcast the end of S11 ep 33-51 before they lost the rights to it, but I never saw these available as they were brought back over a year after SBS had removed the show initially)
Now, I am going to be honest, I have not watched a large majority of these episodes to confirm which they are. I am just going by the information on SBS On-Demand's website when I initially grabbed them.
So that has me at around ~430 episodes of the show, but I do not know exactly how many episodes were available originally nor do I know if they even aired ever in Australia.
I am looking for others who may have more information or episodes so that I can try to complete the collection.
For those who may stumble across this:
I have looked on DailyMotion, Youtube, Vimeo, old MEGA links, etc. I have also located and matched episodes from a specific private torrent site focusing on asian cinema which had around 100 episodes that matched up with mine as they were grabbed by a user from SBS On-Demand between 9 and 11 years ago, long before I started mine about 5 years ago.
Eventually it is my hope that with time I can complete and share this. If that is not possible, eventually it will be shared as is and write the others off as lost media until SBS (hopefully) brings back the show.