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As a matter of curiosity I've just auditioned the TCM Fanatic--Hollywood Forever/Echo Park feature.
This feature also has a "long version" of 4:30 duration and a "short version" of 3:00 duration.
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I?ve also noticed differences in showings of the TCM Fanatic--Silent Film promo. So far I've recorded showings from these dates, 9/4, 9/6, 9/7, 9/8, 9/9, 9/11 and 9/19.
I chose showings from 9/4, 9/7 and 9/19 to play simultaneously in a room with several TVs and recorders/players. I viewed and timed each showing. I found a ?long version? of 4:43 duration and a ?short version? of 3:00 duration. There were several edits made throughout the long version to arrive at the short version. I had to re-sync the versions at several places. Here are the versions/durations I found:
9/4 showing, 3:00
9/7 showing, 4:43
9/19 showing, 3:00
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THIS relies heavily on newer MGM titles, including some TV shows from the 50-70s. The TV shows include the original Outer Limits, Bat Masterson, Mr. Ed, Patty Duke and Sea Hunt.
The "modern" movies are 4:3, PAN AND SCAN, and edited for content and to run in the allocated time.
Beginning in February I've been recording just a few movies and TV shows (Bat Masterson, Outer Limits), editing out commercials/promos, and high-speed dubbing to DVD.
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"The Loew's Wonder Morton is one of the Metro Area's finest surviving theatre organs. Not electronic, not a synthesizer, the organ is a genuine wind instrument with 1,779 pipes and four ranks (keyboards). Its rich, enveloping sound opens a portal back to the 1920?s and the era of silent movies."
The Loew's Robert Morton organ has four manuals (keyboards) and 23 ranks (sets) of pipes.
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Try IMDB for birth dates in 1898.
Social Security lists one Irene Pratt born in 1898:
IRENE R PRATT b. 18 Dec 1898 d. 20 Dec 1987 Last residence Lexington, Middlesex, MA
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There have been recent showings of the 2007-2008 TCM Fanatic features (Kim Punkrock, Guys Make Raiders of the Lost Ark Adaptation, Soundtrack Synchronizer, Last Remaining Seats and Eddie Brant's Saturday Matinee Video Store).
Yesterday TCM introduced two new TCM Fanatic features:
Silent Films (This seems to be related to the Last Remaining Seats feature from 2008).
Hollywood Forever Cemetery/Echo Park Outdoor Movies.
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At least we got the Todd/Kelly The Tin Man (1935) this morning after Kelly The Second (1936).
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TCM has other "phantom" shorts that don't show up in the online schedule. I'm thinking of the S.S. Van Dine mystery shorts from Vitaphone. These are sometimes used as "fillers" with Silent Sunday features. So far I've been able to catch three of these but I've missed at least one, perhaps more.
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MissGoddess,
All manner of folks read and post to the AVS Forum.
Your Panasonic DMR-EZ47 is a 2007 model. More extensive disassembly and reassembly procedures are required for 2005 and older Panasonics. 2006 and newer Panasonics are easier to service.
The Panasonic EZ47 combo recorder does not require removal of the front panel for servicing the DVD Drive unless the DVD Drive disc tray has been extended (or removed) with the DVD Drive lid removed. If the DVD Drive disc tray roller/slider has been dislodged it must be reinstalled and positioned to the far left rear corner of the disc tray before the DVD Drive will function correctly. More detail is found in this post and the post following it:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=15745506#post15745506
Current repair or exchange information for Panasonic recorders is found here:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=14451738#post14451738
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Occasionally TCM runs a MGM theatrical promo entitled GANGSTER FILM FESTIVAL (widescreen). Perhaps that was what you saw.
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Four Parts, a Charley Chase short from 1934, was shown following Four Wives on Thursday morning 9/3/09. This short was not included in TCM's online schedule.
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Virginia Madsen
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Back when this movie first came out I was not paying much attention to the computers.
Ally Sheedy held my attention.
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Our local Comcast service currently offers TCM (an "analog" service mapped to 501) located in their "digital" premium tiers of service.
Some Comcast promotional materials already mention TCM HD among the next group of HD services that will be added in the near future.
When a service is transmitted as an actual "digital" or "HD" signal the viewing experience may be enhanced, but at what price?
There may be an implementation of "copy protection flags" that restrict or prevent copying to removable media (DVDs). TCM programming may still be recorded for temporary retention on the internal hard drive of a DVR provided by a cable or satellite provider but newly implemented ?copy protection flags? may not always allow these recordings to be transferred to DVDs for archiving.
*If there are titles you wish to record to DVD for future viewing DO IT NOW before the digital and HD ?improvements" are made.*
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It's easier to figure out Jack Benny's age. He would be 39.
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In another thread GatsbyGirl made this comment:
"In order to get TCM, I had to upgrade to digital and pay for an extra box on three TVs so that I can watch it in different rooms."
A single cable company converter box may be used to feed a signal to one or more TVs or time-shifting devices in more than one room.
What follows is my response summarizing how my bedroom/home office cable setup supports such utilization:
In our household we have one Comcast HD converter box for the family TV and three Motorola DCT700 converter boxes in as many bedrooms.
Almost all my viewing/time-shifting is TCM, a Comcast premium (scrambled) channel that requires a converter box.
The converter box in my bedroom feeds one Philips HDD/DVD recorder through the threaded RF input and two Panasonic DVD recorders through a split composite connection (yellow for video and white and red for audio). These recorders provide component outputs (red, green and blue for video plus white and red for audio) and composite outputs (yellow for video and white and red for audio) connected to one TV in that bedroom. I use the TV's remote to switch between the different inputs.
The bedroom's Philips HDD/DVD recorder has an amplified RF pass through (threaded output) that runs through a coax cable into the next room, my home office, feeding the signal to a Magnavox HDD/DVD recorder that also has an amplified RF pass through feeding one Panasonic DVD recorder, and from that Panasonic recorder?s RF output to the RF input of another Panasonic DVD recorder. I use a switch box to send these and other signals to Dynex TV in the home office.
This set up allows me to watch (and record) TCM in both these rooms *using a single cable converter box.* (Yes, you counted correctly; I have six recorders dedicated to time-shifting from TCM.)
I didn't mention that there are two other Philips and Magnavox HDD/DVD recorders and two additional DVD recorders (another Magnavox and another Panasonic) set up in those two rooms. This allows for viewing/recording clear QAM (non-scrambled cable) signals directly from the raw Comcast cable coax feed or ATSC (broadcast) signals from an antenna. To provide more functionality/flexibility the bedroom has two TVs and the home office has three TVs. That's ten recorders and five TVs between my bedroom and home office. *And a single cable converter box.*
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LOL!
Amazing that you found those exchanges.
Now where are my glasses?
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To TCM,
Since your provider seems unable to address the technical problems with this Message Board its time (after two months of this) to terminate that provider and contract with a provider that may maintain a functional Message Board. The wheel doesn't need to be reinvented.
It's so easy that a cave man (or woman) can do it.
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"In order to get TCM, I had to upgrade to digital and pay for an extra box on three TVs so that I can watch it in different rooms."
GatsbyGirl,
We also have Comcast in our household. We have one HD converter box for the family TV and three Motorola DCT700 converter boxes in as many bedrooms.
Almost all my viewing/time-shifting is TCM, a Comcast premium (scrambled) channel that requires a converter box.
The converter box in my bedroom feeds one Philips HDD/DVD recorder through the threaded RF input and two Panasonic DVD recorders through a split composite connection (yellow for video and white and red for audio). These recorders provide component outputs (red, green and blue for video plus white and red for audio) and composite outputs (yellow video and white and red for audio) connected to one TV in that bedroom. I use the TV's remote to switch between the different inputs.
The bedroom's Philips HDD/DVD recorder has an amplified RF pass through (threaded output) that runs through a coax cable into the next room, my home office, feeding the signal to a Magnavox HDD/DVD recorder that also has an amplified RF pass through feeding one Panasonic DVD recorder, and from that Panasonic recorder?s RF output to the RF input of another Panasonic DVD recorder. I use a switch box to send these and other signals to a Dynex TV in the home office.
This set up allows me to watch (and record) TCM in both these rooms *using a single cable converter box.* (Yes, you counted correctly; I have six recorders dedicated to time-shifting from TCM.)
I didn't mention that there are two other Philips and Magnavox HDD/DVD recorders and two additional DVD recorders (another Magnavox and another Panasonic) set up in those two rooms. This allows for viewing/recording clear QAM (non-scrambled cable) signals directly from the raw Comcast cable coax feed or ATSC (broadcast) signals from an antenna. To provide more functionality/flexibility the bedroom has two TVs and the home office has three TVs. That's ten recorders and five TVs between my bedroom and home office. *And a single cable converter box.*
Let's see, did I leave anything out of this description?
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Great Directors Month continues into July!
July 3rd featured three Sam Fuller films and the Sam Fuller entry in The Men Who Made The Movies series.
July 4th/5th had one George Cukor film and July 7th features seven George Cukor films and the George Cukor entry in The Men Who Made The Movies series.
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Thank you Kyle for your thoughtful earlier posts concerning possible effects of "a la carte" cable service upon TCM.
I hope TCM subscribers will read the whole NY Times article you quoted.
This link to the article is still active as of 7/2/2009:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/24/business/media/24nocera.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print
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What's going on? The TCM Message Board is barely working and Silver Screen Oasis seems to be gone.
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In several earlier posts in this thread I've mentioned and recommended the Philips 3575/3576 and Magnavox 2080/2160 HDD/DVD recorders. I own and use each of these models.
The Magnavox 2160 is the only one of these models that is currently available in the USA as a 2009 model. The 2160 is sold exclusively at walmart.com. The 2160 is not sold in WalMart retail stores.
The Magnavox 2160 entered the marketplace in the fall of 2008 as a 2009 model. I purchased a 2160 of August 2008 manufacture. This 2160 is an outstanding product. There was great demand for the 2160 with the result that the initial production run sold out. With continuing demand there was another 2160 production run. More recent purchasers report that at least some of these 2160 models are of December 2008 manufacture. Discussions among 2160 owners at the AVS Forum mention some minor changes with this late 2008 production run, including a firmware variation between the earlier and later 2160 models. The late 2008 production run also sold out.
In the last month a new production run of the 2160 model has come back into stock at walmart.com. While that online listing describes no changes to this product, purchasers report that the product being shipped is of 2009 manufacture, has several functional/operational changes and an "A" suffix has been added to the model name. The full model name for this product variation is Magnavox H2160MW9A. In recent AVS Forum posts owners of this "A" model report several functional problems with this product variation. The manufacturer, Funai Corporation, has been contacted concerning these problems. At the time this post is being written there has not yet been a response from Funai.
For those contemplating purchase of a new Magnavox 2160 HDD/DVD recorder I would suggest holding off until the problems are resolved.
See this thread at the AVS Forum for more information/updates:
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Primosprimos,
Your local Craig?s List is the place to offer such a quantity of DVD+R media.
Perhaps it?s time to offer some observations as to the current state of blank recording media.
I used a 100 disc spindle of good quality TDK DVD+R discs with my Panasonics back in late 2005/early 2006. I noticed that my Panasonics were not really very friendly toward this format so I switched back to DVD-R discs, the original and most compatible home-recording format.
Toshiba was a DVD-R holdout. I was surprised to observe, in the summer or fall of 2007, a Toshiba DVD recorder that was promoted as supporting DVDR media. Perhaps that Toshiba was manufactured by Funai after Toshiba stopped making its own DVD recorders. Funai manufactured DVD recorders (Philips, Magnavox, Sylvania, Toshiba, Emerson, Philco, Symphonic, etc.) were somewhat split for a time as to disc formats--some of the machines required ?? media and could not accept ?-? media while other machines required ?-? media and could not accept ?+? media. Some recent Funai manufactured machines accept either format. There are hardware/software design, manufacture, and licensing/royalty factors at work here among these several ?Funai brands.?
It wasn't until 25 January 2008 that the DVD Forum, a consortium of manufacturers, first recognized the ?? format as an "official DVD format." The ?? format first appeared in the marketplace sometime in 2004.
In the last two years most of the retail "name brand" DVD media has suffered quality control problems. This came about as many manufacturers cut costs to meet low price competition. Major brand ?in house? media production has largely ceased as production was farmed out to contractors that produced inferior 16X formulations designed to meet ?price points.?
In reality 16X recording is not used in stand alone DVD recorders as real-time recording is performed at 1X. Even those hard drive machines capable of "high speed" dubbing do not use the 16X speed. The fastest high-speed dubbing in current machines is found in the Magnavox 2160 equipped with an 8X DVD Drive. My 2160 is twice as fast at high speed dubs as my Magnavox 2080 and Philips 3575 and 3576 models that have 4X DVD Drives.
Studies cited at the AVS Forum show that that current 16X media is more stressful for a laser assembly to burn than high quality 8X media.
There are still a few retail brands that have some product lines of good quality. Unfortunately most name brand makers mix their good media with their inferior media so it takes real detective work and some luck to find quality media remaining on retail shelves. These are usually the hard to find older 8X discs and some of the initial production of 16X media from Maxell, Verbatim, TDK and Sony. The uninformed continue to buy Memorex because it's cheap to purchase but much more expensive than other brands when figuring the initial and long-term failure rate of this "landfill" material. At AVS there are detailed discussions of disc identification codes, lot numbers, countries of origin, UPC variations, etc.
For my archival work I use DVD-R media of the best quality. Taiyo Yuden is the last producer of high quality media. It?s easy to go online to purchase Taiyo Yuden Premium Line 8X DVD-R media. Scroll down for larger quantities:
http://www.supermediastore.com/taiyo-yuden-silver-thermal-8x-dvd-r-media-100-pack.html
Some months back I switched to near-exclusive use of Taiyo Yuden Premium Line 8X DVD-R media for my Panasonic, Magnavox and Philips DVD recorders. The first box of 600 TY discs has half a dozen discs left. I currently have two full boxes (1,200 discs) of these Taiyo Yuden discs on hand. Some sellers offer Taiyo Yuden ?Value Line? media that save a few pennies per disc. While these are probably superior to brands found in retail stores the ?Value Line? discs are from lots that tested out below Taiyo Yuden?s high performance standards. ?Value Line? discs should be regarded as ?seconds.?
Last year I purchased a 100 disc spindle of Sony 16X DVDR media for specialized use with computer DVD burners. I haven't yet opened that spindle. Perhaps I'll use that DVDR spindle for data storage. Older computer DVD burners, those manufactured before 2006 or so, may not be compatible with DVD+R media. As dubbing speeds increase so do instances of errors/failures. If burning copies of DVDs be sure to select a dubbing speed well below the 16X range.
If using DVDR media when burning a DVD for someone else be sure to check to determine if their DVD player is compatible with DVDR media. If a DVD player exhibits playback problems with DVD+R media it may not have been designed to support that format. Other playback problems arise with greasy or soiled discs or use of discs of inferior quality.
short musical film, snare drum and broom brushes
in Information, Please!
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This is the 1929 Vitaphone short *The Opry House* with Lew Hearn (M.C.), Doris Walker (singing "Let Me Call You Sweetheart") and The Mound City Blue Blowers (Josh Billings, percussion, Jack Bland, banjo, Carl Kress, guitar, Red McKenzie, comb). *The Opry House* was last shown 7/25/2009 following *A Night At The Opera*.
For more Mound City Blue Blower information see:
http://www.redhotjazz.com/mound.html
For other *The Opry House* comments see:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170335/usercomments