Movie Collector OH

Here is Rose Marie at about age 29 and singing about being "almost 94 now" [listen in at 0:45]. Well it took a number of years. RIP

I know some people who still live in houses with original themes like that. They built kitchens with avacado appliances into the mid to late 1970s. So just your average 1960s to 1970s split-level house, with original appliances and kitchen layout. Today those might be special-order colors, but with people being as particular and choosy as they are today, I'll bet it could still be done.

P.S. one more thing. The older generation HD-PDR model (which I think you have) was also able to encode audio in Dolby AC3. The HD-PVR2 generation cannot. It just encodes audio in two channel AAC, which is more than sufficient for intended use. Just thought I'd mention it. They probably just decided not to spend more money on Dolby AC3 licensing costs.

The three HD-PVR2 models I listed above are all open on the bottom and closed on the top and sides. Since heat rises, I simply have it turned upside-down in my entertainment center. With this model upside-down, the open fins of the heat sink points upwards (I can see this with a flashlight) and the heat ventilates up and out the holes in the top (bottom). I think they point the cooling grille downwards on these as they were originally designed for gamers who go to gaming cafe's, and tend to drink beverages which sit right next to their HD-PVR2.

The HD-PVR2 had three versions. An earlier "gaming" version (included special cables for gaming consoles). This is the one I use the most. I have a couple backup units sitting around too. One of them is a discontinued unit intended for "home theater" - it had home an extra theater cable or two as well as an input for remote control I think. That one was discontinued because all the features previously exclusive to their "home theater" model were duplicated on their newer "gaming" unit. Specifically here are those models I mentioned (I use the first one, but could potentially use any): Original HD-PVR2 (gaming version) http://hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr2-gaming.html Discontinued home video version http://hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr2.html [it looks as if they have already switched it out on their product page, as this model now has a green operating light like the gaming versions. In the past this version had a blue operating light, like in this index page] http://hauppauge.com/site/products/prods_hd-recorders.html Current Gaming & home theater version http://hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr2plus-gaming.html [this is a step up from the original gaming model, both are still being made]

I added a bit more to my post. My DVR machine which uses the HD-PVR2 is an XP machine. I usually don't mention that here, but I don't surf the Internet either with it.

Those sync issues will generally go away and stay away where the correct problems get fixed and no software regression occurs. I would of course make some backups of the software installer which works the best - just label it for the OS which it worked on. Sometimes they depend on external libraries which are changed with OS version, so when you upgrade the OS then you have no choice but to update to a newer driver version (or software version). I wouldn't mind doing that, but for me it would need to happen on a "test system". For a new version of the OS where things get broken, I would at least swap out the production HDD in the machine for a test HDD, and then proceed to rebuild the system using all the newest software packages and all the newest drivers. That way at the end of the day, if things don't pan out, you can always replace the original HDD and get back to where you started. On the other hand, if it works out, then you can just call that test HDD your new production HDD, and hold on to the old one in case you need to revisit it for any reason. I disabled Windows Updater in one of my two remaining Windows computers (my NextPVR DVR machine). It still needs to be connected to the Internet so it can retrieve from Schedules Direct. I don't use that computer to access any other resources on the Internet. Firewall is also set to prevent incoming connections, except for an obscure port used by NextPVR scheduler so I can schedule from other computers around the house. The video editor machine (my other remaining Windoze machine) does not even have a network interface card. I basically treat those two machines as single purpose "appliances". I do all my Internet from Linux Mint machines. Just because they have nothing to do with Microsoft. No need for automatic updates, antivirus, malware tools, etc. Those are pretty much all unnecessary in the Linux world, so quite a perk for an Internet-connected machine. Updates are manually initiated and can be restricted to only security updates if desired. If I streamed my movies, then it would be from a Linux machine, probably a laptop connected to my TV.

Okay well in that case you might need to go to the Drivers section of the Hauppauge website and download the latest drivers or firmware to install on Vista. Doing that has improved things here and there for me. In particular a couple years ago it cleared up an intermittent recording sync issue for me.

On seeing my first football game on a color TV set: "Wow, I thought they had been playing on pavement all along." Of course I had been to a real game or two, but never made that connection.

Any lossy compression is already "built in", long before I receive it. I can't tell the difference with what I do to it. Two-pass compression makes a big difference, it is a huge improvement over single-pass compression as only the appropriate parts are compressed. The first pass analyzes it and creates a "map" of the different passages and elements, and calculates appropriate compression levels for each. The second pass actually does the compression. You schedule it per time slot. It is manual in the sense that you open the web page from any computer that is connected to it, scroll down in the grid, and find a program(s) you wish to record. You fill in the check boxes for the programs you wish to record, then scroll to the top and click on the "record" icon. It sends the requests to the PVR, which keeps a temporary copy of the schedule (just like a regular DVR). If you want to record something "manually", as in arbitrary "Start" and "Stop", then you are better off just using the quick recording software that is included with the HD-PVR. Either that or maybe I am not understanding your question?

Just re-read my original post as I updated some of it. As for NextPVR, it is a free program developed by a programmer in New Zealand. He is the one who wrote the simple black Hauppauge Record interface for Hauppauge HD-PVR2. NextPVR is a stand-alone application that runs as a service in the background on Windows machines. To use the NextPVR program, you would need a subscription to a schedule provider. The most obvious is Schedules Direct. It is cheap. You can connect to NextPVR from another machine to actually schedule it, as it has a web page scheduler (NEWA) and a minimal web server as a backend.

Hey Limey, have another look at my post since you quoted it.

Yes. TS (MPEG-4) files generated by a Hauppauge HD-PVR2 connected to the AV outputs of a satellite receiver and driven by a computer running NextPVR and populated with schedules from Schedules Direct. Takes a bit to setup, but easy to run. From there I transfer it to another computer via external USB HDD. Then it goes to much faster machine running VideoRedo. I use it for editing, and also for two-pass compression (very nice results). I record it at maximum bitrate on the HD-PVR2 (13 Mb/s, because hardware compression just doesn't look that good) and use this to compress it down to about 4 or 5 Mb/s (the point where the compression is not perceptible to me). That turns out to typically be a 2:1, 2.5:1, or sometimes a 3:1 compression ratio, as I have it set to end up with a 4.3 GB output. For larger movies like Ben Hur I set it to end up at around 8.5 GB output. That allows me to store the TS files on single-layer or dual-layer DVD if I choose (in MP4 format though, not DVD format). Normal archival for me is on large 4 TB or bigger external HDD These are the full size HDD units with their own wall wart power supplies. I buy these large 4TB external HDDs brand new and never use them for anything else. They are normally disconnected from any computer and offline. With my compression scheme I can get about 600-700 movies on a 4 TB external HDD.

Wait, going by the prior deviation in the "art" of the color scheme, how do we know now that her dress isn't an offwhite creme color with a greenish hue, and dark red or maroon colored butterflies or leaves?

Nonoonoonoonooo Keep the avacado green kitchen appliances. It wouldn't be the 70s without it.

About a few years ago I recorded Rio Bravo (1959) off of AMC, commercials and all, as an experiment just because I didn't have it yet. I record things a bit different from most here as I get it onto a computer first and then edit it. I use an editing program which shows all the sections I cut out along a time line, these sections appear as red segments against an otherwise green timeline bar. The commercial breaks piled up along this timeline like the divisions on a piece of logarithmic graph paper. It started out with generous 10 minute segments in-between the commercials. About three or four 10-minute segments. Then about 1/3 of the way through they started getting shorter and shorter... By the last third of the movie, there were short 45-second commercial breaks once every two minutes of the movie. It was amazing. In addition, it became harder to discern the commercials from the segments of the movie. Counting all those in, I think there were well over 30 commercial breaks in all. I just wish I had saved a screenshot of the editor window with all the red cutouts. A picture is worth a thousand words. I ended up not keeping that copy, as the AMC screen bugs on the bottom were unbearable.

It's well-intentioned, but a train wreck. Also look at the table lamp next to her. This was before "daylite" blue and hydroponic "gro-lite" bulbs were all the rage in the living room. And those curtains.

A television show, nonetheless. But still...

Or that could be also either be the pharmacy in the chemotherapy unit of a hospital, or a GMO food plant where the employees are more than happy to suit up, as they end up protecting themselves from the "food".

This is basically the crux of the whole thing, as I see it. There is technical accuracy, and then there is artistic intent. I think that the "artistic intent" part goes fairly unrealized or misunderstood at times. While the colors may or may not be "correct", as per original set design, the bottom line is that they never intended for us to see the gaudy colors which were used in B&W to make B&W images "pop" in the B&W domain. If it had been filmed in color, it very well may have been filmed using different colors.

I don't know if there is any effort to fix this, but in general the digital scanned image would need to eliminate the top line or so. Apparently when transmitted on the old analog signal, this was overscanned or masked off by the older technology CRT TV (just a guess). On a side note, I still use a CRT TV in one room and can see these too. That is probably just because it is coming in on a digital signal, then sent to the TV. So the TV probably just doesn't see it as an "overscan" and thinks it is part of the picture. It probably wouldn't kill the consumer equipment manufacturers to include a setting to blank just the top line before sending it to the TV. Could be as quick and easy as part of a provider DVR firmware upgrade.

When I was younger, I had a View Master viewer and a View Master projector. It came in a large can (maybe about the size of a two gallon bucket?). The projector was blue and was about the size of two Kleenex boxes side by side, or maybe more like a wide shoebox. It had a 12v or 24v transformer in it and used a common automotive bulb with a bayonet base. It wasn't that bright, I had to use it in complete darkness in order to see anything. Also it only projected the left side of the stereo slides. Almost exactly like this. Except not as warped, as this website warps embedded images. So unwarp it in your mind. (in general, all the embedded images should be a little wider) I still have a standard red View Master viewer and about 20-30 or so View Master reels, mostly picked up from tourist destinations and tourist shops in history or science museums. They usually came in packages of three or four. When I was younger I had a bunch of the Disney reels as well as TV show reels. Those seem to have come up missing. Either that or I handed them down (which now that I think about it, I am sure I did).

Hmm sounds like a one time thing I could probably crank out. I wonder how many different studios there were (in the US). I don't know off the top of my head, but could easily find out.

Going on IMDB yesterday I tried to search for a production company (by company). I was redirected to the signup page for IMDB Pro. Then I searched for and went to a specific movie and scrolled down to its production company and clicked on the company link. Again, I was redirected to the IMDB Pro signup page. So it seems they might be preparing to require a paid subscription just to look at basic movie listings by production company. In the past IMDB Pro was mainly to see contact information of active movie personel, for the purpose of making business connections and networking. Any personel I might come across have largely been dead for many years. That and I have zero intention of networking with anyone in Hollywood. It looks to me like they might be getting ready to wrap up the free services and move to a paid model.

Oops. I was thinking of 2 Stupid Dogs. But I watched that too, if I came across it. 2 stupid dogs 1x10 a A Quarter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY1Vi8O8kQ0 2 stupid dogs 2x05 c Vegas Buffet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMJch4BZPdA P.S. the big dog is voiced by Brad Garrett (of Everybody Loves Raymond fame)