The Silver Screen Oasis

Lzcutter wrote:Meet John Doe was Kyle's pick as one of the 15 fan programmers for the 15th anniversary of the channel and now I always think of him when I think of the film...

Here is Kyle's intro/outro to Meet John Doe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JARGQmxitZc

otterhere wrote:Why do they play all the best movies just as I'm leaving for work in the morning? Why, why, why?

...to remind you to set your recorder the night before.

moirafinnie wrote:...On Jan. 31st, TCM at 5:15AM ET will be broadcasting The Spy in Black (1939)...

It appears that The Spy In Black has been bumped off the online schedule.

I'm recording all 10 1/2 hours of the Will Rogers programming. Notice the substitution of Doubting Thomas (1935) for Handy Andy (1934). There is also the ninth Todd/Pitts short, The Old Bull (1932), programmed between A Connecticut Yankee (1931) and Doctor Bull (1933).

Talkietime- thanks for the response. Terminal certainly sounds like the diagnosis I had guessed at. And given the price of machines, I will probably ask Santa for one for Christmas. (I have another one downstairs so am not completely without.) Isn't it sad that it's cheaper to throw something in th...

What did I do? I took that very same Panasonic-recorded DVD with the Greed promo and played it on a Sony DVP-NS57P DVD player where the composite output was connected to a Magnavox 2160A HDD/DVD Recorder. The Greed promo was dubbed to the 2160A hard drive where there was no copy protected icon foun...

In the run-up to showing the 1999 restoration of Greed, TCM showed the six minute long promo describing the restoration process. That promo is especially interesting in that Eric Von Stroheim's son, Josef Von Stroheim, participates in the promo.

Earlier posts in this and other forums have bemoaned copy protection difficulties with some Toshiba DVD Recorders. I’ve now experienced this Toshiba DVD Recorder copy protection pain for myself. This Toshiba D-R410 DVD Recorder of October 2008 manufacture is a Craig’s List purchase ($30) from a mont...

TalkieTime, I dropped my combo VCR/DVD player. (It did not record DVDs, but a lot of my VHS were recorded on it.) THe DVD player won't play, so I'm guessing it's a loss, but you're so smart I just thought I'd ask. Birdy Birdy, With a VCR/DVD combo the laser assembly is perhaps the most delicate par...

Mr. Arkadin wrote:Make Way for Tomorrow will reshow Dec. 24th. Criterion has also recently released this film on DVD. There is also an R2 release.

Thanks for the heads-up for Make Way For Tomorrow. I'll make sure I catch that showing.

I record from TCM quite a lot of early talkie movies through movies of the film noir era. That is the main content in my home-recorded time-shifted DVD archive. My DVD archive also has a very limited number of post 1960 movies. Once in a while there is a glitch or other complication and I miss somet...

The other recorder is a Panasonic DVD/VHS recorder. That is a straight cable input. All the digital channels record fine. The Toshiba (I failed to mention earlier has an Upconvert feature.) I would have thought that all the digital channels would have not recorded. I'll have to look and see if ther...

I know this is going way back but I have an unusual situation with my two recorders. One is a Toshiba that I have hooked through an HD box though the recorder itself is not an HD machine. It will not record TCM (or some other channels though not all) on a standard digital signal. It will record on ...

Dear TalkieTime, That's all way too complicated for me. Anything requiring a rewiring means a $150 visit from the home theater guy. ;) I'm even beginning to wonder if it IS the machine that's at fault. I really wish I could solve this problem of the wavy lines. I suggested the Magnavox 2160 ($159 a...

pvitari, A HDD/DVD recorder is a stand-alone DVD recorder that also has an internal H ard D isc D rive, hence the term "HDD." A HDD/DVD recorder owner uses such a recorder much the same as they used to use a VCR or DVD recorder. With a HDD/DVD recorder one sets up a scheduled timer recordi...