ElCid
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5 minutes ago, MovieCollectorOH said:
Okay I just have one question about your TV.
Look on the sides and back of your TV and tell me if you see three unused RCA jacks. These three jacks are either labeled "Y", "Pb", "Pr", or they could also be labeled "Y", "Cb", "Cr".
If so, this is another HD video input, just like your HDMI input. You would get to it by cycling through your inputs with your remote control.
The three RCA jacks are video and left and right audio. No component connections. Has 3 HDMI's.
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11 hours ago, hamradio said:
Either suggestion will work. Here is a nice HDMI switch which one can use a little remote or select from unit. You can supplement the 5v by plugging it into any unused USB port.
Thanks, but I don't think this solves my problem. I have zero HD inputs on the Toshiba DVD recorder.
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20 hours ago, MovieCollectorOH said:
Does your TV have 3-wire component video inputs? (actually 5 wires by the time you include your two audio wires)
If you have a few extra stereo RCA-to-RCA cables sitting around your place, you might at least be able to test it to see if this might work out for you.
Probably have a dozen or more "spare" RCA cables sitting around and that is after getting rid of even more last year.
Are you talking about using the RCA cables to go from cable box to TV? If so, I prefer using the HDMI between cable box and TV. TV has 3 RCA inputs-two audio and one video.
20 hours ago, speedracer5 said:Would an HDMI switch box do the trick? We use one for our video game consoles.
I don't really know much about the tech stuff though.
I think that is what has been suggested earlier and the problem is the cable box only has one HDMI output and I prefer using that for the TV. The DVD unit only has RCA (composite) inputs.
I don't think there is a solution to my situation. It seems to be related to whatever "system" Charter is now using for viewing on an HD TV.
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23 minutes ago, MovieCollectorOH said:
Just scroll back up to John's reply. He says he has one, and it works for him. Take him at his word and get one of those devices. He even provided a link, which shows the exact model, even if you don't want to get it from Amazon maybe you can find it somewhere else. If it doesn't work out for you, at least you tried and you can always return it.
P.S. This will probably be my last post in this thread. I didn't want to divert it too much but already did.
That was my plan until I realized my Charter box only has one HDMI output and I need that one for the TV. Could run it through the Toshiba DVD unit, but that would mean having to turn the Toshibia DVD on every time I wanted to watch cable.
May call Charter and see if they have a unit with two HDMI outputs. Probably not.
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This is my box at beginning of this video. My outputs that I can actually use are one HDMI (to TV), 3 composite and 3 component. No component input on Toshiba unit. No HDMI input.
So, looks like I am stuck with what I have. From searching though seems Charter has several other types of boxes with different outputs, but probably none that will work for me.
Thanks for all the advice, but this is getting way too confusing.
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1 hour ago, johnpressman said:
My Panasonic DVD recorder has only RCA and SVideo inputs but with an HDMI output. My Spectrum cable box has only HDMI outputs. The solution is an HDMI to RCA and SVideo adaptor. Make sure it is HDMI to RCA/SVideo not the other way around, which is cheaper. SVideo will give you a much improved picture vs RCA.
OK, I looked that up and sounds good. But I don't use Amazon. I did find a similar unit through Best Buy and also Radio Shack. The RS one requires electricity. Neither has an S Video. Is the S Video necessary? Best Buy says theirs will show the picture in full HD on an HD TV.
Thanks for your help.
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33 minutes ago, johnpressman said:
My Panasonic DVD recorder has only RCA and SVideo inputs but with an HDMI output. My Spectrum cable box has only HDMI outputs. The solution is an HDMI to RCA and SVideo adaptor. Make sure it is HDMI to RCA/SVideo not the other way around, which is cheaper. SVideo will give you a much improved picture vs RCA.
Thank you. Will it make the screen size full screen or at least larger than now?
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5 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Today on TCM:
We watched I Walked with a Zombie last night. Good little movie, much better than the zombie schlock they put out these days.
Mark of the Vampire is another good one. Not your standard vampire movie. Watch for the armadillo (possum?).
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On 10/28/2019 at 5:38 PM, LawrenceA said:
I'd normally just post this in the DVD section, but I thought more people would be interested in this here:
Flicker Alley, the Film Noir Foundation, and UCLA Film & Television Archive are proud to present a brilliant new restoration of Richard Fleischer s gripping (and nearly lost!) film noir Trapped (1949), starring Lloyd Bridges and Barbara Payton, in a deluxe Blu-ray/DVD dual-format edition.
Before making Hollywood epics such as Tora! Tora! Tora! and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, director Richard Fleischer started his career with a series of low-budget B-features, often taking ripped-from-the-headlines crime stories and spinning them into noir gold... of which an exquisite example is 1949's endlessly entertaining Trapped.
A young Lloyd Bridges stars as hardboiled hood Tris Stewart, a convicted counterfeiter doing time in the Atlanta pen. When a fresh batch of fake bills starts circulating, treasury agents bail Stewart out to help lead them to the maker of the fake plates. But Tris double-crosses the Feds, hooking up with his gun-moll sweetie (22-year-old Barbara Payton in her breakout role). They plan to heist the plates and hightail it across the border. With the Feds closing in and the double-crosses piling up, Stewart finds himself between a rock and a hard place... and this time, he may be trapped for good!
Although long sought by the Film Noir Foundation, Trapped was believed to have suffered the unfortunate fate of many B-films of the era: oblivion. But when a private collector deposited a 35mm acetate print at the Harvard Film Archive, the Film Noir Foundation and UCLA Film & Television Archive (with support from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust [The HFPA Trust]) sprang into action, restoring the film. The result, presented in a Blu-ray/DVD dual-format edition by Flicker Alley, honors the pitch-perfect performances, assured direction, and gorgeous cinematography of this edge-of-your-seat, noir classic.
BONUS FEATURES:
Freeing Trapped a documentary on the film s creation and history, featuring interviews with Eddie Muller, Donna Lethal, and others.
A Sedulous Cinderella: Richard Fleischer Remembered a remembrance of the man, the director, and the father, by his son, Mark Fleischer.
Audio Commentary Track Featuring author Alan K. Rode and film historian Julie Kirgo.
24-Page Souvenir Booklet Featuring rare photographs, poster art, and commentary by Czar of Noir Eddie Muller.
Trapped will be released on Blu-ray/DVD December 31st.
"The DVD section" - what is that?
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6 hours ago, Hibi said:
Was surprised to hear that Pearson and Gomez were gay! WTH? Also surprised they would be that bold to demand their partners be allowed on the set. Interesting to say the least......
Especially in that era. Gomez was established to some degree, but Pearson sure wasn't.
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2 hours ago, MovieCollectorOH said:
I had something similar with the recently shown "The Pink Panther Strikes Again". That had big border padding all around, a small HD-shaped picture shown in the middle of my big HD TV. That happens every once in a while on the regular HD channel.
I'm going to guess this is a widescreen movie, pre-formatted to a 4:3 frame [top and bottom padding added], and then broadcast on the HD channel [left and right padding added]. I arrived at this conclusion from observing the settings in my offline video editor that it takes to fix this.
One of the aspect ratio/framing correction presets that fixes it is "Pillar Box to Standard". Also selecting that preset changes another setting, Aspect Ratio input, from 16:9 to 4:3. Even though my recordings are natively recorded at 16:9 HD.
P.S. Another setting, Another, "Letterbox to Widescreen", also works (and keeps the desired ratio). That is actually the one I have used.
Thanks, I have seen the "pillar" setting in my Charter preferences, but have no clue what all those different settings do and how do I undo them if I do something wrong. You have provided some good information, but beyond my technical abilities.
Actually I don't think there is a fix for my set up, so, I will just learn to live with it.
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Tomorrow (Oct 29) on TCM:
Marie Windsor stars in Double Deal at 6 AM.
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Oct 29, 6 AM, Double Deal (1950) with Marie Windsor as the star. Film Noir about people fighting over an oil field.
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38 minutes ago, vidorisking said:
Consider yourself lucky that you can still record. I had the same Toshiba and TCM or my cable company blocked me from recording anything. I had recorded films onto disc for about 10 years until one day it was just blocked.
I'm sure that will happen one day and of course it benefits the cable company because they can charge you for their DVR. Fortunately I am recording less and less these days and almost none for permanent keeping.
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I have a Toshiba DVD recorder and have noticed that the screen size and volumes are drastically reduced when recording from TCM since Charter-Spectrum changed its format. Force of Evil was a box with large black frame on all four sides. Volume was reduced 80% from normal.
The "newer" TCM introductions, ads, etc. all record with bars at top and bottom, then changes to four bars for the movie. Regular HD channels also record with bars at top and sides whereas on TV directly from cable, they are full screen.
In the past, I recorded with no problem and it displayed as full screen, but with the extreme sides cut off. No big problem. Volume was normal.
I now have an HD TV and when I record from HD stations, there are bars at top and bottom and and sound is reduced by 60-80%. BUT I don't think that is the problem. Older DVD's of 1940's movies from TCM I recorded still show as full screen and volume is normal.
Charter-Spectrum changed me to their new format where you have a lot more options for guides, menus, movies, TV shows, etc. Main feature is that On Demand listings for TV shows and movies show a picture of a "DVD" box or poster rather than just a list of titles. Same with listings for networks - shows their logo with name in small print.
Complained to Charter and guy came over with component cables, but Toshiba unit does not use them or composite either. It also does not have an HDMI input. Only input from cable box is for RCA jacks. Has one HDMI output to go to the TV itself. Could not figure it out.
There is an S video in on Toshiba unit, but no out on the Charter box.
Have tried the various settings changes to the TV, but no improvement. Also tried changes to Cable, but no improvement their either.
Any advice would be appreciated. Could get a DVR box, but not really interested in anther $120 per year charge. Thanks.
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Recorded Force of Evil and watched it last night. I give it 2 stars out of 4 at best. As noted by another poster, too much talking. The plot also seemed a little disjointed at times to me.
Enjoyed Eddie's comments as usual. Too little of Marie Windsor in it and not impressed at all with Beatrice Pearson.
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My favorite Griffith movies are Hearts of the West, Winter Kill, Deadly Game and The Girl in the Empty Grave. Deadly Game and The Girl were TV movies that would hopefully lead to a new series, but didn't. Would like to see Adams of Eagle Lake which I understand was never actually broadcast. Also, Murder in Coweta Country, just to see Griffith and Johnny Cash together.
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17 hours ago, laffite said:
I couldn't believe my eyes either. Had he chosen to do so, he could have projected his career in a completely different direction. Or perhaps just maybe. He seems to have exhibited a range (with drama) that he didn't use so much later.
I think he found a platform that worked for him - comedic dramas or dramatic comedies mixed with situation comedies.
If you look at his filmography, Andy Griffith played some fairly dark characters from time to time.
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Force of Evil with James Garfield and Marie Windsor is on Noir Alley, Oct. 26 at Midnightish and repeating at 10AM Sunday morning.
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2 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Force of Evil; Tonight at Midnight:
I'll watch it for Marie Windsor more than John Garfield. I have a copy of Swamp Women on a multi-movie DVD set. Very funny, although it is not supposed to be. She stars along with Touch (Mike) Connors, Beverly Garland and some other women.
Apparently one disadvantage she had in Hollywood of the time was that she was too tall at 5'9".
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21 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I love A Face in the Crowd. Andy Griffith is kind of charming, until he really starts going off the rails. But I agree his loudmouth would be a turn off. This film is very prescient of the nature of today's media--especially the level of narcissism present in social media. This film would make a great pairing with Network.
I love Valley of the Dolls. I know the second film is not a sequel to the first, but based solely on the picture, it looks like something I would watch.
There are hundreds of very successful loudmouth people such as depicted by Lonesome Rhodes on TV and all sorts of media today.
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2 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
I always felt a bit sorry for WALLY( Skip Young) who not only went to college and was a fraternity brother with DAVID, but was still stuck in college and was also a fraternity brother with RICK when HE finally reached college age. I imagine he probably died of old age still sleeping in his room at the Frat house!
I wonder what you expected from early to mid '50's and '60's sitcoms( or any sitcoms from any decade) as Muni and Olivier level acting was never required for them. Nor for many of the "dramas" either. We all have our likes and dislikes, and for whatever reason I liked the show. You can't really knock the success of a TV show that lasted 14 seasons that had the head of the family doing not much more than running out to get a quart of ice cream!
Sepiatone
One of the benefits of all the OTA stations (with many on cable, etc.) is that they often show shows from the 50's and 60's. Or at least used to as I think some of them are migrating to the late 70's, 80's and 90's now.
So, I have been able to watch other shows from the early 50's and 60's and in my opinion, the acting, scripts and directing were better in all the others I have seen. In fact, I believe the supporting cast, such as Wally, actually performed better than the Nelsons.
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He is back. Unfortunately he has again monopolized the Off Topic thread Trump's Biggest Whoppers with his massive postings of things from other websites.
And yes, I do have him on Ignore because of it. I also told him this.
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13 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
Y-y-y-you don't mean these guys??
Sepiatone
Ah, the best Highwaymen.
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Noir Alley
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Just opened the Nov. Now Playing and noticed a link for Noir Alley. Nov. 30 showing The Mask of Dimitrios. I had always thought this was a sand and sword movie (ha).
Kansas City Confidential is scheduled for Nov. 23 and that is a very good movie.