ValentineXavier
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catching up on a veery long thread...
I used to use two SVHS VCRs. Since 2006, I have been using a Pioneer DVDR, with HDD, and added a second one just over a year ago. I have made thousands of DVDs, mostly -R, but also a few +RDLs (double layer.)
I started out using Sony and Verbatim discs, but now use only Taiyo Yuden -Rs, and Verbatim RDLs. Most discs these days are trash grade media. The Verbatim *AZO* line is still very reliable, but hard to find. Stores like Office Max+ switched to the Verbatim *Life* line, which are crap.
I still use one SVHS VCR, and one Multi-format VCR, for the occasional dub to disc.
Musikone, on my Pio, yes, -R discs can be formatted in the "VR Mode," which allows high speed copying back to the HDD. They need no formatting for the standard "Video Mode." -RW and +RW discs are automatically formatted to the "VR Mode," unless "Video Mode" is preselected.
On my machine, the only salient difference between -R and R, is that -R discs will fast forward much faster than R discs. Having a hard drive, I don't edit on disc, but on the HDD. RW discs cost 3-5x what R discs cost, and are not recommended for long term storage. They have a much shorter shelf-life than +R and -R discs, so I don't recommend them, except for time-shifting.
The real reason that DVDRs are disappearing is that DVRs have taken their place, because they record in HD, and not that many people in the general population care about archiving movies. The last DVDRs with HDD are still available, if you look hard. They were made by Funai, under the Magnavox name, sold on-line at WalMart, Amazon, and J&R. If you check repeatedly, you'll probably find one, but prices have risen, since they are no longer being manufactured.
Blu-Ray recorders are available in other countries, but not the USA. This is because there isn't enough demand for them at the price they would cost, and the fact that the movie companies don't want us recording perfect digital copies. If you want to archive on Blu-Ray, you'll have to go the HTPC (home theater PC) route.
Edited by: ValentineXavier on May 7, 2012 7:52 PM
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Light, but very entertaining. I count it as a noir. Except for being a comedy, it has most of the elements - good guy suspected of a crime he didn't commit, bad guy is bent.
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Try clicking on "Filming Locations," on the IMDb.
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> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote}
>To top it all off, I'm sort of like that "most interesting man in the world" in that I don't often drink beer, but when I do, I prefer DOS EQUIIS.
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> Sepiatone
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You should try Negro Modelo and Bohemia. Both are better. But, Dos Equis IS way better than Corona.
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Thanks, TCM for giving me a two day break, on the 16th and 17th. I can catch up on a few of the films I've saved from other days...
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
>This was a more exciting film than Peyton Place.
What isn't ?
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Fred, I haven't seen it yet, but there is a 2007 Russian version, called *12*. I've seen it listed on cable.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488478/
I agree that *12 Angry Men* should not be shot in 2.35:1, but I think 1.85:1 would have worked.
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*The Bed Sitting Room* is a favorite of mine. But, it is so weird and surreal, that it was four years before Richard Lester could get another film financed.
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Fellini's *Roma*, and *Juliet of the Spirits*. Vittorio de Sica's *Umberto D.*
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> {quote:title=johnbabe wrote:}{quote}Garbo was star of the month in 2005 - 7 years is a long time!
Not in dog-years...
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}For my money, "Sturges' best" were HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO and UNFAITHFULLY YOURS.
For mine, his best are *The Great McGinty* and *Sullivan's Travels*.
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> {quote:title=lanceroten wrote:}{quote}Casablanca being my all time favorite movie, and this gentleman played a great part. Played a good Nazi.
Hmmm... the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, and we saw him killed, so, you're right!
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Interesting. TCM sent it out in anamorphic over its SD channel. Personally, I wish that all SD channels, that don't also have HD clones, would show everything in anamorphic. Most people have HDTVs now, so it would be nice if letterboxing ceased to exist, but we saw everything in anamorphic widescreen, even on the SD channels.
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*Silent Blade Running*
Eco-droids Huey, Dewey, and Louie, learn that they are to be replaced by replicants. So, they hire Deckard to take them out, without telling Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern.) After Deckard deals with the replicant replacements, he discovers that Freeman is a replicant. Huey, Dewey and Louie protect their main man, by bumping Deckard into a compost shredder.
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Deleted, because it was too silly, even for me...
Edited by: ValentineXavier on May 1, 2012 11:06 PM
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2 x 0 = 0 Sorry!
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}It is a little-known fact that the popular Motown song by The Supremes,
> STOP ! In the Name of Love!
> is a reference to old-fashioned telegrams. Everyone thinks the girls are begging their lover to *stop* breaking their heart(s), but in fact the song title is simply quoting a telegram.
I've got two more for you. In the song Leader of the Pack, sung by the Shangri-Las, most people think they say "Yes, we see." In reality, they are demonstrating that they are trilingual, because what they really say is "Yes, oui, si."
In Elvis Presley's hit Return to Sender, he sends his girlfriend a letter, which comes back the very next day. The only way that could happen is if Elvis' girlfriend was fooling around with the postman, and he took the letter straight to her, not the post office, she wrote "return to sender" on it, and then the postman returned it directly to Elvis. Little-known pop music facts...
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Bob, Bob, bo-bob
Banana-fanna fo-fob
Fee-fie-mo-mob
Bob!
Happy Birthday, Bob!
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> {quote:title=TCMfan23 wrote:}{quote}
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> If we were all speaking face to face to one another , none of you would have the guts to say hat you say to me on here.
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I can't speak for others, but as for myself, not so. I am never afraid to tell someone to their face when I think what they are saying is a load of equine excrement. When on line, I am more restrained.
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> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote}
> I am sure many here may be tired of my enthusiasm for Odessa. I will end with the thought that I know of no other city where a public stairway has been immortalized in movie and myth.
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Well, there is the long public stairway that piano movers Laurel and Hardy struggle with, but I'll admit they really don't compare...
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Thanks for the facts, Clore, even though they don't seem to have an effect on some people. I was sure I'd seen it in the last year, but I was off by a month.
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Looks like that shot was taken near noon, as there are such short shadows.
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Currently, TCMHD is not showing any true HD, even for films, such as *North by Northwest*, where HD transfers (including BD) exist. I don't believe there has been any official statement on why that is. Speculation is that TCM is waiting until they have HD transfers for at least a majority of what they show, until they start showing true HD. There is also a possibility that they still need more HD equipment.
Right now, everything shown on TCMHD is probably up-converted from SD masters. It is possible that they first down-convert things available in HD, then up-convert, there has been no official statement, AFAIK. I think that unlikely.
Up-converting SD does provide a better picture than the TCM SD channel, for various reasons. This is particularly noticeable on wide screen films that are letterboxed in SD, but shown filling the screen side-to-side for 1.78 - 2.75:1 films, and top-to-bottom for 1.66:1 films. We don't have to zoom a SD signal to fill the screen any more. So, TCMHD, at it's best, looks like a good anamorphic DVD, which IS better than SD.
TCMHD in France is showing true HD, and the resolution is stunning. I have seen the screen caps posted on the AVS Forum. Lucky dogs...
BTW, standard cable/OTA HD signals are 1080i, and 720p. 1080p is the Blu-Ray standard, but not generally available on cable or satellite.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}This was supposed to be outdoors. That planet must have had multiple suns. See the shadows on the ground.
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Well, Ben had multiple sons, so why not?
RICH'S B (AND WORSE) JUVENILE DELINQUENT THREAD
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I won't pretend to fill in for Rich, but I liked it. I thought it was very nicely shot, had a bit better plot than the average heist film, and a few scenes, such as when Elke goes into the casino, near the end, that are almost abstract.