To be honest, there's more critics I go out of my way to avoid, than ones I actively try to follow... I mean, I enjoy Vern . I like that he makes no distinction between oscar-bait prestige, art movies, or straight to streaming cheap genre films. And that he seems to go out of his way to avoid 'ain't...

Any current software (>=Win 7)?

If planning on using Handbrake (and I too recommend it. It's been around forever, completely free, and does it's job very, very well), you'll need to install an old version to run on win 7

To me many people are expecting too much from a network that doesn't have commercials and doesn't charge a subscription fee. I don't know where you're living with it's free TCM, but here in Comcast land (eastern coast of the US) TCM just keeps getting more, and more, and more costly as it gets push...

I was actually never impressed by Robert Osborne's writing staff. I'm pretty certain they wrote them. Or at least they used to. When Osborne or Mankiewicz would have a bylined feature in the Now Playing guide, it would be their intros word for word. They certainly don't employ a fact checking staff...

Has anyone else noticed that as of late 95% of their content is pulled directly from the "Articles & Reviews" section of TCM's site?

Man, the days of Robert Osborne (or even Tiffany Vasquez) really are long gone...