SansFin
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I wish very much that she posts her thoughts, reactions and joy at the encounter.
It would also be nice to hear CineMaven's side.
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I hope there is a celebration of some sort on this site for his birthday. He is a wonderful man and many of us love him dearly even although we have never met him.
I do not think it would be appropriate to have considerable notice taken of it on the channel. There is a dividing line between personal life and professional life. Any promotion of the personal detracts from the presentation of the material. It is much the same as a reputable journalist does not inject their self into their coverage.
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> My DVDR, using 8x or 16x discs, which are standard, will record a two hour film from the HDD to DVD in 12 minutes. This saves wear and tear on the lasers, since they are on for 12 minutes, not 2 hours.
It is my understanding that it is a trade-off. The discs which can be written at higher speeds require the laser to produce a higher output. It is like using a 25W bulb for four minutes or a 100W bulb for one minute to receive the same amount of light. The graphs I have seen show that 4x has the longest laser life and fewest faults.
4x discs are not as easy to find now.
On our recorders it is important to record to the hard disk at the speed at which it can be moved directly to the DVD. Any program which is recorded at the highest quality (HQ) and is longer than an hour must be written at 1x when it is recorded onto the disc because the disc must be written at standard quality (SP). This is particularly troublesome with movies which are very long as we wish to record at HQ so that we may make a copy that is spread over several disks in HQ as well as a disk which contains the entire movie in extended play (EP).
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It is my understanding that what comes over the cable for Basic and Expanded Basic packages offered by all companies is analog because of infrastructure costs. They began receiving some channels in digital format from satellites long ago. It was far easier to translate those digital signals into analog for distribution over their existing network than to translate the remaining analog signals into digital and replace all their customers' cable boxes in a short period of time.
Now that almost all broadcasts are also digital there is no need for the conversion and they are moving all packages into digital. They must do this slowly because it means replacing equipment which is expensive. They must also replace cable boxes in all of their customers' homes which is a slow and expensive process.
We are having to end our DirecTV service because the receiver is going bad and receiving a replacement is virtually impossible.
We had Time-Warner cable installed today. TCM is on the Expanded Basic tier which is analog. The difference is quite noticeable.
I know it is against the feelings of most here that I look forward to the day when they move it into the digital tier.
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> {quote:title=NoraCharles1934 wrote:}{quote}
> I find a reasonable amount of b****ing (and the odd voodoo doll) to be cathartic.
Do you have the kit?
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/little-voodoo-kit-jean-paul-poupette/1002356577?ean=9780312154158
> Okay, I'm feeling dense again. How does having a hard drive expedite the process?
Many DVD recorders with hard drives allow you to record to a DVD at a higher speed depending on length of material, the speed at which the program was recorded and the capacity of the disc. Mine will record a one hour program onto a 4x disc in approx. twenty minutes. When I remember to record a ninety minute program in two-hour mode to the hard drive it will record to a 4x disc in approx. thirty minutes.
DVD recorders with hard drives allow you also to edit the program on the hard drive so you can remove any unwanted material at the beginning or end before recording. If you are recording to a DVD from a source such as a DVR you must be in attendance and quick on the start and end buttons to achieve the same clean copy. It is also much faster to enter the title name on the hard drive and have it copy it to the DVD than it is to enter it on the DVD menu and have it write it directly.
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These are instrumentals by famed Igor Krutoy:
You are in my September
Roses for You
I Miss you in my Dreams
The Eyes of Love
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This shows it being made:
http://answer.nttdocomo.co.jp/touchwood/#making
I read that an artist wished for many years to make it and could not find any person or corporation to pay for it. It was by luck they found a tie-in to a commercial.
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I believe it to be a massive effort and wonderfully creative. As the product is only shown at the end it seems to me to be nearly a non-commercial commercial.
I have looked for my favorite musical commercial and I am sad to say I can not find it. It is Stealers Wheel's Stuck in the Middle with You while showing a clothesline filled with thong panties. It was the first time I had heard the song and now I can not hear the song and not think of that commercial.
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Bela is a very attractive man.
It is part of me to like intensity in a man's face.
Yuriy Yakovlev
Eugen Sandow
I am sure he has a face. It always takes for me a while to look up that far.
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It has truly been a grand morning. I once believed that I had all of the Boston **** movies. I have since learned that there are seventeen of them instead of eight. Today's movie is one that I did not have. I will watch it later today.
I am also greatly looking forward to the Bikini movies coming next week.
Thursday, April 19 is the day when no one should have even a slight inkling of a notion of an idea of attempting to distract me from the the television.
My spill-chequer has informed me I should find a less-offensive word to replace the term: "Boston ****".
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I do not know the particulars of your cable system. I do know that many cable systems have a digital tier which is not the same as their HD tier and that they are moving TCM into this digital tier.
Here it is that "Expanded Basic" is channels up to 75 and it can be watched with no cable box. The channels 110 to 226 are a digital tier which requires an SD cable box. The channels above 309 are HD and require an HD cable box.
I believe it is a near certainty that the cable company is pushing to have people install HD cable boxes when all they need is an SD cable box which will cost much less. Here the difference is $4 a month for an SD cable box and $12 a month for an HD cable box.
Your DVR operation should be the same except that the cable comes from the cable box and not straight in from the wall. It is possible that the greatest difference is that your present set-up might allow you to watch one channel while recording the other and this might not be possible if you do not have a separate cable box for it.
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Is it a really large dog?
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> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote}
> And to think this all started by me simply suggesting the showing of a bunch of MOVIES! I'm scared to ask this bunch for the time..
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy
I believe it would be more dangerous to ask about towels.
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
House by the River (1950)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
The Depths (1957)
Rope (1948)
The Cupboard Was Bare (1948)
The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)
Number 17 (1932)
The Forty-first (1956)
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> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}
> I wish some guy would heft a dead body over the tracks for me...
It is said: "Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies."
I believe that could be a theme for a night of TCM movies: friends helping friends move bodies.
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This is an instrumental you may like:
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The majority of human DNA is not used. I do not remember the percentage which is used to determine human form and individual characteristics.
I remember that it is said that when researchers were looking for the differences between primate DNA and human DNA they could not find them and they began to joke that whether you were a monkey or a human depended on upbringing.
It has been postulated that the unused portion of DNA could be an important message which was encoded so that important information would be available when/if humans ever progressed to a developed position where they could decode and read it.
Some researchers look for biodiversity in interesting places:
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There is a modern alternative:
http://thecheeky.com/suitcase-stickers#
It is a wonder that all suitcases do not have stripes as a bar code. It would be easier to have a mounted scanner to handle the sorting than it is to look at little tags. I nearly never travel with more than a carry-on. I am sad when I see people standing in line waiting for their bags to come down a chute. I know they are wondering if their luggage is in the same city as they are and if it was damaged or stolen.
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I am surprised you do not include *Grischa the Cook* (1929) as it stars Marlene Dietrich and Vladimir Sokoloff.
Yasujir? Ozu has three wonderful movies of 1929: *Days of Youth* (1929), *I Graduated, But...* (1929) and *Kaishain seikatsu* (1929).
*The Dawning Sky* (1929) is very worthy also of great consideration.
I recommend also:
*Captain Fracasse* (1929)
*L'appel de la chair* (1929)
*Madame Lu, The Woman for Discreet Consulting* (1929)
One of my favorites of the year is: *My Grandmother* (1929).
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> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote}
> One of the most fascinating stuff I like is gas methane hydrate aka the Gas Bubble "theory" (really only a theory).
I believe that would be a very frustrating truth. It would mean that there is a huge amount of fossil fuel with an area density so small it could not be tapped.
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I liked *The Man Who Lived Twice* (1936). I prefer the Warner Baxter remake *Crime Doctor* (1943). It is even better that the latter was the first of a series.
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I blame Christopher Columbus for much. Before he stuck his nose into the affair a person wishing to go into space need only sail to the edge of the world and jump off.
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I wish all here have a Happy Easter!
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