Bill_McCrary
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Your HD Philips model seems to be a true Hi Definition one.
No, the HD simply refers to having a hard drive, like the H for your Panasonic. BTW, I forgot to mention in the previous post - when you hook yours up, the i and the p refer to "interlaced" (which is standard) and "progressive scan" (more modern, like a computer monitor, at least sorta, is the way I understand it) TV screens. The DVD is recorded like all others, but it will be displayed properly for your monitor/TV by switching between interlaced and progressive (some have switches on the back (or special connections), some do this through the menu).
The "true HD" recorders are, indeed, still expensive; but then, my first HiFi Mitsubishi VCR (not even SVHS!) cost a little over $1,000 in January 1986.....
My last (or most recent) SVHS HiFi machine (which I sometimes still use to dub to DVD from) cost $49, open-box. Go figure. We can look forward to that with HiDef in 4-5 years, no doubt.
Likewise, I'm fading. Made a 125-mile trip and back earlier today (Tuesday, that is/was) to buy LPs and 78s to add to my superfluity. Tomorrow (today) I'll have to start sorting, cleaning, cataloguing, etc. Or, maybe not.... I'll join Ray Milland on his two "benders" instead (right before choir practice - LOL!).
Bill
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the promo that ran at the end of the film before the j. f. movie was to run stated the "the little girl who lives down the lane " was next. and at 10 p.m., the little princess ran. so,in that instance, something went wrong at TCM that night.
It's not the only time they've gotten the 3-movies-coming-up panel wrong. Not often, but it does happen.
In this case (I saw it, too), that was wrong (like my schedule I printed out maybe two months earlier), but the change was made far enough in advance for RO to announce that Shirley Temple was coming up next, and when "Little Girl" began, he referred to Shirley Temple having just been shown. So, the change (to alternate good girl/bad girl movies) was made early enough for him to record the spots that way.
OR - is it just possible that somehow he recorded them that way (by some kind of accident), so they made the changes? Either way - stuff happens, like RZ's TCM underground movies getting reversed. That's one of the beauties of (continuously) recording (up to 6 hour buffer on mine) on a hard-drive machine and then editing later. I reversed the RZ movies to get them back right when I archived them to disc. When movies run long, no heart-spasms like when I record straight to disc with another machine (or worse, on timer).
Technology to the rescue (when it's not causing the problem in the first place)!
Bill
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I didn?t find the model of your Philips DVR listed anywhere. Is that the correct model number/name? My DVR is a Panasonic DMR-EH55. It is not an HDD like yours. This one converts into HD 720p or 1080i image. I don?t know the difference between both but I hope that the result in quality of image is the same.
The Philips is actually an HDRW720 (I keep getting that wrong!). It's probably not in production anymore, but there are plenty on eBay (not where I got mine). I also have three non-HD Philips machines, and my Panasonic is the E50. Your EH should be a hard-drive machine (the H), so you can record (like a TiVo) and then edit - but I don't have a HD Panasonic, and all work a little differently. The point with many/most TiVo sets is that you'd still have to record the program to a disc/tape, which loses quality (but not as badly as from a tape, if the original was at one of the higher quality (read: speed) levels). Your DVD will be, essentially, exactly what the recorder took off the air, not a generation down the path. Then you can make additional ones, if that's desired for some reason, on your computer.
I LOVE my Philips 720 (except for the timer thing). It's getting old enough I need to investigate another one to have ready. The hard drive is doing fine so far, but I recently had to swap in a DVD drive, since the laser apparently gave out. At least it's got a REAL drive in it (just like for the computer), instead of el-cheapo non-standard stuff. If you know someone with an old, supposedly defunct CyberHome recorder, hang onto that drive inside it. It will swap into other machines like this one (also, into many/most computers with proper software).
PS - I see new Philips HD machines at Wally World for under $300; they look fairly substantial, but I haven't been inside of one to look (yet). If you spend much less, you'll certainly get what you pay for!
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Lorne Greene
Leo Carrillo
Hume Cronyn
Did Lorne Greene have anything to do with Phantom of the Opera? Carrillo and Cronyn were in the 1943 one.
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Everytime I come here, a message comes up saying, Error on this page. What can I do to correct this?
Mine was doing that for a good while, too. But (if you're using Windows, at least) a little box was also coming up with something like "notify me each time there are errors," already clicked (default). I "unclicked" it; now my pages load right up. Sometimes on the bottom (tray?) it will say "loaded, but with errors." So what? It loaded and I can do everything with it I need to. If you're getting that box, unclick it and move on. (But also tell WebAdmin what he needs to know.)
Hope that helps.
Bill
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My email Id is....
Not a good idea to publish your e-mail address in the posts (for many reasons). Ask people to PM you about things like this, and THEN give them your address.
To edit, look to the upper right of your original post for the symbol/icon beside the "reply" icon, click and edit/remove words as if it were a regular Word document.
Welcome, and happy sailing,
Bill
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Are the American DVDs playable on our system in the UK ?
Can't give a definite answer (since I live in the US!), but I'm assuming it's the reverse of our situation. US/Canada/Japan use the NTSC video system; Britain uses PAL (similar to SECAM for rest of Europe, I understand). IF you have a multi-region player (and some machines can be made such through software manipulation, called "hacking" by some), then you can play pretty much anything. I have an AIWA that was bought for the purpose (in other words, someone made a quick-change to it and charged for that), but the Koss machine I bought cheaply from Sears plays Region 2 (and others, supposedly) with no problem after entering a code I found on a video forum online.
Warning: Some machines (and some DVD drives for computers) can be adapted only so many times before they lock. Mine are permanently fixed for multi, but some give 10 or 25 times and then could become basically useless. Know your machine! I think that may be about as much as I should post here about "fixing" machines, though.
Sorry about so many parentheses!
Bill
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By the way, what did you mean by ?it takes about an extra 15 or 20??
I meant that the machine records while the movie's on; then it takes anywhere from 5-10 minutes to edit the commercials out (from the show on the hard drive), depending on their number and how fast one is; then, for a 90 minute show after editing, it can take anything up to 24 minutes (on my Philips HDD720) - depending on the speed/quality used to record (I often put 3 hrs, sometimes 4 hours on a disc) - to archive that edited one to a DVD.
BTW - you can take out all the "automatic" edit points, and then where the commercial breaks are edited out will become the de facto chapter markers - or you can add extras (but the commercial places have to stay marked, at least unless you do it to DVD+RW and then edit again!).
Clearer? This is not the same as using a TiVo and then dubbing from that to a DVD - the DVD in this case is exactly what was on the hard drive, just edited.
I have to say - I had my HDD720 for over a year before I figured out the above. The book states it, but Ooooohhhhhh it drove me insane reading it. I still can't do programmed record with any certainty on it. I do a test recording (one or two minutes) on timer; works fine. I set the "real" program, and then I return to find nothing recorded. I use other machines and dub, for those, now, when I'm away.
Bill
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Clue # 3. A very demanding teacher.
A Christmas Story?
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...where he held an amateur boxing championship, or where he was jailed on drug charges...
Oops - guilty of partial reading (and memory). That's what I get for not leaving the original post open while searching. Lots of fights, though (pretty good record), and went to jail, but for spousal abuse.
Still looking.............
Bill
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the sailors aboard warships exchange movies and one crew always is left with a loser.
This is ringing some sort of bell in my head - seems to me like it might happen early on in "Hollywood Canteen," but I think it was on land (but maybe a rainstorm comes up) where they were actually watching it. I don't have my recording handy right now to check. Anybody, could it have been in a Kay Kyser movie instead?
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I believe the movie was called "Down Among the Sheltering Palms"
and it has shown on Fox (when I still got it, since I won't pay extra now), but I haven't actually watched what I recorded, so I didn't recognize the description. Check their listings - maybe it's coming up again.
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As stated before RACHEL is a film that runs on FMC with no commercials. If you have this cable channel I would wait for them to schedule it again rather than sit through an endless amount of commercials. I suppose one could tape the film and fast forward to get through those commercials.
But FMC has gone to another tier on DirecTV, and I haven't "ponied up" the extra cash for it (boo-hiss). Those of us with hard-drive DVD machines collect, edit, and THEN watch (takes maybe an extra 15-20 minutes) in comfort, as long as AMC folk haven't shortened/compressed it for a slot. At 98 minutes, if they don't go 2 hours, 15 minutes one or both of those will happen.
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Although I've been in prison on drug charges, that hasn't kept me from working in a lot of movies. Maybe it's because my cousin is a well-known director. Or maybe it's because I'm a pretty good actor.
Mickey Rourke?
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Okay, Bill... Take it away!
Anybody else is welcome to take it. I'm still cogitatin' over the humdinger to come....
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Can't answer your question (but someone will!), but here's a link to Amazon in which several versions are discussed, ranging down to 60 (the "digitally restored" one) minutes. I don't see one (yet) at 133.
http://www.amazon.com/Hunchback-Notre-Dame-Wallace-Worsley/dp/630182671X
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We watched silently, in a state of stunned astonishment and morbid fascination,
I'm just betting you haven't seen the one from about 1925 (a Lee DeForest early sound experiment) with the "singing" duck!!! THAT's what I thought at first they were going to show. He (DeF) made several surviving sound-on-film experiments, including Eddie Cantor, Calvin Coolidge, and others. I think I saw them somewhere other than TCM.
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...the first couple of day of the new year seem to be a bust. I don't see anything remotely interesting until maybe Jean Arthur night.
And I'll probably be running a recorder almost all day (from 6 AM EST), since there are at least 11 I don't think I've seen - especially Destination Moon.
Each to his own - and isn't it wonderful there is the variety to support that, as well as scheduling that lets some of us escape from the tube for a while. As it is, I've been marking the schedule and can't find more than a couple of days "free" where I can leave town for something I need to do. SO many old movies I don't have, and I thought I knew most of them. It must be the influx of things from the non-MGM-WB-RKO films that are available now. Notice, I didn't say SO many classics, just old movies; I find them often more fascinating (and shorter, if they're not good!) than the acknowledged classics.
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I checked out the TCM homepage and to my astonishment found that NONE of the movies listed on next month's schedule were accompanied by the little "letterbox" icon.
And, in addition to filmlover's comments: You must not have realized just how many of the month's movies are the "true classics," from before 1953, and would of course not be letterboxed. Also, on January 1st alone there are five (5 - count 'em) letterboxed movies showing after 8PM. You must have given up a little early.
Bring up the month's schedule, do a CTRL+F, type in the word "letterbox," and go straight to your targets. (And I don't mean the TCM personnel!)
Happy watching.
Bill
(Later): Sorry - I wouldn't have posted again, except I didn't realize this was one to which I'd already replied. But the above may be useful to some who had not thought about how (one way) to search the schedule.....
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
Butch: Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
Turned out to be WAY too easy - just entered "Zed's dead" + quote, and voila!
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Anyone see when the 2006 in memory dedication to entertainments passing short will air?
They've been showing them after LOTS of movies, but there's no listing for them (at least on the forum). Leave a recorder/TiVo/HardDrive running today, because it may not be up for much longer.
There is a link (somewhere) for the older ones, and this will probably be added. Do a search for "TCM Remembers" and you'll find the other threads (several of them) about this.
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Of course, they haven't. I see it was your first post. Maybe you haven't been reading the threads, as I did for a long time before I joined and started posting, but this particular movie brought up the same question when it was shown a few months ago.
If you don't know, TCM does not own all the films, the way they used to. Many movies they have to lease from their owners, and they are at the mercy of what they get sent. Yes, Quiller is a widescreen movie; no, they can't get the letterboxed version to show. Unfortunate, but simple as that.
Now that you've joined, start in reading. It's addictive, though! Welcome.
Bill
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What film's plot ENDS with this line: "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead."
That is the FINAL line of the plot. What's the movie?
Bad Bascomb?
That seemed a logical choice (but I didn't review the movie tonight). There were an astounding number of "Zed" characters, though:
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This gentleman was on a very popular TV show of the 70s which featured many Asian-America actors, but he was never anyone's Number One (or Two) Son.
Philip Ahn? (Hawaii Five-O)