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I posted this in another subwoofer thread, but realized that nobody had posted there for about six months. So please excuse me if you see this twice. I've had a home theater system in my basement mancave for 20 years, and I've replaced components as needed. But the speakers have remained the...

Conversation in another thread got me thinking about Glynnis O'Connor and where I first saw her and fell for her. It took IMDB to jog my memory, but it was Sons and Daughters, a 1974 series that only lasted one season. It starred Glynnis O'Connor and Gary Frank (who was also in one of my other...

I watch a lot of TV shows while riding my exercise bike, using the DVR to skip through all the commercials. I start the bike when I start the show, so except for the time it takes me to skip commercials, which might vary a little, I get a good idea of how long a show actually runs by looking at...

John Schneider got killed off as Jonathan Kent in "Smallville," and he just got killed off as Grace's father in "Secret Life of an American Teenager." That got me wondering. Has any actor, in real recurring roles (not just a one-time thing, but a real recurring character) been killed off more...

Does anyone know what's happening to this show? Peter Bart in his blog (and at the end of the last broadcast show) says the show will "migrate to a different time and a different neighborhood." Does this mean a move to a different network? When will new shows return? Anyone know? IMHO, this is...

I ask about Split Image every few years but never really get any info. Anybody know what happened to it and why it's not on DVD and never (as far as I can tell) shown on TV? It had stars (James Woods, Karen Allen, Peter Fonda, Michael O'Keefe, Brian Dennehy) and an interesting plot (a...

Is there any web site that lists information about whether shows are cancelled or are just off the schedule for a while? There have been so many shows that just come and go and viewers are left without a clue (or, at least I am). For example, 3 Lbs, Andy Barker, Daybreak, The Black Donellys...

In the past week, Turner Classic Movies has shown two technicolor Danny Kaye movies, "A Song is Born," and "The Kid from Brooklyn." I believe Robert Osborne said about each of them that they were TCM premieres, not shown on that channel before. They both looked terrific on TV. Could they have...

Does anyone know anything about the DVR that's built into the Mitsubishi 825 series TVs? I can find some general specs about disk size, etc (17 hours of HD storage). But what I really want to know about is programming capabilities. For example, do you have to manually select each show you want...

I've heard a lot of really positive comments about the Denon 3805 receiver in this forum. But two dealers I've talked to (who carry both) each recommend the Rotel 1056 instead. I'd appreciate any opinions comparing the two A/V receivers. (If this makes any difference, I was listening to B&W...

I'm shopping for new HT equipment and one criteria I had for the DVD player was that it have DVI output (like the upcoming Denon). Assuming my digital cable box also has DVI out, are there devices out there with multiple DVI inputs? The RPTVs I've looked at seem to have only one DVI input...

It's been my dream to put in a nice home theater system in the basement, and recently my wife has become accepting (actually, a bit positive!) on the idea. So I need to get working on this before she changes her mind. I've currently got a setup in my living room with a 36" Panasonic...

I just watched the new DVD of "For Me and My Gal" and I noticed that during the scene in which Gene Kelly is in Marta Eggerth's private train car and she is at the piano singing to him, whenever there's a close up shot of her (with her skimpy dress), the breast area is extremely fuzzy, as if...

I seem to remember reading an article last year about restoration work and/or possible DVD releases of the Astaire/Rogers musicals. Has anyone heard any recent information about this? Or about possible releases of other Astaire movies (particularly Band Wagon)? The recent release of Broadway...

I'm going to ask my questions again in a separate thread, because they were getting lost in the quite interesting discussion of which films are or are not in PD. Anyway, I recently purchased the 50 Movie Pack Family Classic collection from Treeline Films. It's quite a hodge-podge of PD films...