hamradio

Its always one *Thing* after another. If Universal ever decide to do a prequel to the 1951 version, the alien should be played by Carrot Top.

"Cinematron" a mind boggling 150 hour French experimental film. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematon For a list of all long movies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_films_by_running_time

VHS is not dead, simply not popular anymore. Just Google vhs tape and scroll down to or go to Ebay. My local Dollar Store still sells VHS tapes. VHS is no more deader then the old LP vinyl record. Don't beleive me go to this Audio Advisor site and just look at the finest turntables ever made. http://www.audioadvisor.com/products.asp?dept=78&sort_on=title&sort_by=&view_all=true

I must have missed that info about the fireproof house, a fireman told me a long time ago, a building may be made fireproof but not the people! inside, lol! So we don't get off track I was NOT impling that the written word would be obsolete but what the so called future historians was prophecing, a change of the written format. One great example is the movie "Star Wars, Episode II" Did you pay attention to the Jedi Library? It was all futuristic electronic, not a book to be seen. Like the fireproof house, they more likely got it wrong about the demise of the "book" itself. My post was regarding this topic. I lived through the 1970's and 80's in which we were told that the book will soon be a thing of the past. Surely you heard that as well. I understand and agree about that civilization can not exist without the written word. I like to add that civilization has *already suffered* from the lost of it. I am referring to the ancient Library of Alexandria which burned along with *thousands* of scrolls. Today only a handful exist Many historians has pondered what was lost. Its beleived that we are rediscovering and reinventing ancient technology. Mindboggling that an analog computer existed 2500 years ago. Could the Industrial Revolution started 2,000 years ago instead of a couple of hundred?

libradoll wrote: << You know the saying 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' - this applies. >> I always lived by that rule. The only video I have of "Casablanca" is the original B&W VHS release. That rule also applies to *this website* whenever they do an update!!!!!

Talk about great timing. I just watched the documentary "Universal Horror" (1998) on the Chiller Channel last night and they showed the *one take* shot transformation John Barrymore did in "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1920). Thats a talent very rare. Footnote: They claimed in "Universal Horror" that the spanish version of "Dracula" was better than the Bela Lugosi film. Never heard of that before!

Tell that to Le Trung. http://www.rivercityhackers.com/Latest/android-woman *Project Aiko* This is what happens when eharmony.com and a *good book* don't pan out! Edited by: hamradio on Jan 3, 2010 6:50 PM

catillo wrote: << What next, Silent movies with sound?? >> Done that! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1534830/New-technology-catches-Hitler-off-guard.html

If you don't find one, you could move to Latin America.

It depends on the frequency and the material. I remembered back in the 1970's when CB was most active, a ragchewer use to bounce his signal off a large water tower several miles from me. He got around a mountain bend using that technique. Oh yes, remember the "Moonbounce" operations a few hams use. The *moon* is used as a reflector. Directv's frequencies and transponder info http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=82295

FredCDobbs wrote: << I found my dish covered with snow. I wiped the snow off and came back inside, and I had a picture! >> This is why I mounted my dish beneath my 2nd story window which has an awning. I never had snow on it and it keeps it out of the worst of the rain. I found out by accident when mounting it that I was receiving the signal which was being reflected off the siding - turns out the outside wall was acting like a reflector. I kept it like that - the dish doesn't stick out! It looks like the signal was hitting the side of my house at an angle. By the way I use the older round small dish, a dual LNA and an RCA 4 output distribution switch.

I will if *he* will. How *old* is she again?

When I wrote the original post, I was thinking about the "paperless" society, computers suppose to bring and the movie WALL-E at the same time. The amusing scene in WALL-E was when the captain of the Axiom was presented an "operation manual" (he referred to it as man-well) which was in hard cover. He never seen a book before and didn't know that it opened, lol. The Auto Pilot showed him how. This is the newest movie that sort of told us that books will be obsolete in the future. Is those slobs in hoverchairs our *future??* I hope humanity has a better outcome.

I was a bit disappointed that the Panasonic recorder didn't have a Compact Flash slot and it just occured to me to try my PQI Travel Flash USB reader / writer and it worked. The Compact Flash is used in my *ha,* Panasonic Digital Camera. My thoughts was mostly of the flash drives like the Toshiba TransMemory devices. Has anyone tried a true USB hard drive or 3.5 inch USB drive?

I was referring to the recent Micheal Moore movie (both are political and hence the flame thrower pun). By the way I was wondering, in the 451 movie, if the firemans only job is to burn books, who do you call when your house is on fire??? Having your local fireman to inforce the states Nazi type laws instead of the standard police (or Gestapo) is really "out there".

Did anyone noticed the widescreen Hi Def TV set in the movie. Who knew in 1966 that in the future, people would be watching *Fahrenheit 9/11* on it? (that in itself is just cause to take a flame thrower to it) A lady was noticing all the roof mounted antennas and said "look at that house, nothing". DUH, Maybe they got cable! In the future it turns out there was no need to burn books, we simply stop reading them. Edited by: hamradio on Jan 1, 2010 11:39 PM

Referring to the Milwaukee Braves, I guess they don't get help (like the California Angels) when its needed.

I already had, yes I always clean the inside of my electronics manually and use a cotton swab to clean the lens inside my CD players. The cheap players always have transport failures - thats why I avoid them. You might be interested in the Audio Advisor website which deticates better CD / DVD transport design. http://www.audioadvisor.com/products.asp?dept=5 Notice what the $5,999.99 Marantz player gives you (ouch)!! Oh yes they also destroys the myth about the *death* of vinyl http://www.audioadvisor.com/products.asp?dept=78 Edited by: hamradio on Jan 1, 2010 2:42 PM

My god are they weaponizing fusion already?? They must have seen the green plasma weapon used in this movie Edited by: hamradio on Jan 1, 2010 2:11 PM

I like to mention that I keep my DVD's and Laserdisc *clean*. I only handle them at the edges and whenever I do clean them, I only use Windex (NO generic brand) and a Viva paper towel thats used very lightly. Viva is the only paper towel on the market that don't scratch plastic or pexiglass. The Bounty brand use to be soft but they changed it about 8 years ago and it scratches. My horror will be if Viva goes the same route! Kleenex is fine but it leaves a lot of lint, I only use it to clean the displays only (with a can of "Dust Off"). To this date I had never to replace a single DVD, Laserdisc or CD (even software). I have a first generation CD (maybe the first period) which is a Christopher Cross made in West Germany in *1978*, bought it in 1983 and it is still in new condition with absolutely NO blemishes of any type. Edited by: hamradio on Jan 1, 2010 3:12 PM

My new DVD recorder is the Panasonic DMR-EZ28. Its been a great little machine. Do you think I will have any trouble out of it in the future? It will be a LONG time before I approach the 1,000 hours of recording from it. I have the 2nd outputs of my Directv connected to the jacks at the rear and whenever I dub from my VCR, its connected to the front panel jacks. My VCR is one of the last great VCR *only* models, the JVC HR-S9900U. I like the DMR-EZ28 link you provided. One can expect a few failures from a production run of any type of electronic gadget, especially when it is complex in design. I myself never liked combo units of anything - like my audio / video equipment to be deticated to smain primary function. If I lose something, only that piece needs to be replaced. I don't include my dual deck Optimus SCT-56 which has 2 seperate casstte tape decks but both has the same function. Edited by: hamradio on Jan 1, 2010 1:35 PM

Here's something your mom will like, Milton Berle began his career at the Texaco Star Theatre in 1948.

To all the members of the board, *Happy New Year!*

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