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Now you can all laugh at me
Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:14:08 +0000 (UTC)
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doctor...
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Mental awareness needs checking :-(
Teh Wraith O Smeg...
selaboc...
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you're just now realizing this :-)
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I thought I switched tapes only to find out
I overwroted The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and part
bklyntv...
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The Christmas invasion?!? The War on Christmas has started already!?!?!
Why haven't I been called back yet!?!?
doctor...
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Last I checked, Bliar was in charge.
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of Tooth and Claw. Not happy!!-(
Teh Wraith O Smeg...
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DAMMIT!
When I used to use video-tape, I used to do that all the time. It made me
so mad, one day I just quit using it.
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selaboc...
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That's a shame. Try to be more careful next time. In the meantime, my
advice to you is to either wait for a repeat showing or get the DVD set
in Janurary.
doctor...
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Hey Seb there are some unique clips to the CBC's showing of DW?
Billie Piper as hosting in a Canada Rootswear is WOWWER!!
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Any CBC veiwers taped from end-to-end these 3?
Kase...
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TAPE ???!! ROFLMAO - TAPE!!!!
atec77...
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Why laff ?
Jack Bohn...
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He said we could!
Confession time for me: I was on vacation the week before last,
and set the VCR to tape four half-hour shows and the 3-hour SciFi
block of Heroes, Who (Age of Steel), and BSG, forgetting about
the time change! Well, it had Heroes and Who, and the night I
got back had a replay of BSG. So I rewound the tape over the
half-hour shows (a total loss) and programmed the timer.
Including a few minutes before and after for safety, I set it for
10:58 PM to 12:02 PM. 12:02 PM being noon the next day. Lost
everything and hadn't seen it yet! Well, at least when you try
to record 13 hours on a 6 hour tape it doesn't rewind and keep
going!
doctor...
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I feel for you. Just recently, the Cableco changed stations
on the tube. I only noticed it when I thought
I was going to watch BBC News only to find NAtional Flopball League.
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Ian Salsbury...
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Set top boxes are cheap as chips nowadays, or if you had broadband you could
download the episodes in no time at all and burn them to DVD. Get with the
solar penguin...
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Maybe Yads is in the same postion as me. My VCR still works, so I'd
feel like I was betraying it if I got rid of it and replaced it with one
of those new-fangled DVD recorders. When the VCR finally breaks down
then I'll think about it, but not before.
doctor...
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Actually I have a VCR/DVR Panasonic Combo.
I am still looking for the Bazza recommended Phillips combo though.
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Jack Bohn...
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Here in the US, I'm worried about the impending switch to Digital
broadcasting. I don't want to pay big bucks for some fancy
recorder built to receive the current spectrum, only to find next
year it is useless for anything but watching what I'd already
recorded on it.
doctor...
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I recommend 3 sites: panasonic.com, jvd.com and philips.com .
Forge...
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er, you probably meant JVC.com, as in Japan Victor Corporation, which
started out as Japan's answer to RCA. = )
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They have merge VCR/DVR combos.
Just chose which you like.
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Jeremy Banks, Esq...
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If you're that concerned, quit watching TV.
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times grandad!
doctor...
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Who are you calling old?-)
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John Schilling...
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Right, especially with the money you save buying a television for only
five quid from Magpie Electricals. And I hear Cybus industries is going
to be rolling out their new EarPods with a special low-price introductory
offer.
So, really, there's absolutely *no* excuse for not using the very latest
in information technology...
doctor...
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doctor...
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Some people do not beieve is staying a step behind.
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Brian Henderson...
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I can't remember the last time I even used the VCR, much less recorded
something on it. Everything I do is digital now, there's hardly any
point to having a VCR anymore, it just gathers dust.
Jeremy Banks, Esq...
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Same here. I threw my VCR away nearly ten years ago, sold my hundreds of
videotapes while they were still worth something. I cannot understand why
people refuse to go digital - all that rewinding and adjusting the
tracking! Must be masochists or something.
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doctor...
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Not into transistions I see.
Kase...
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No I'm not, sorry, not my type, but I hope the operation goes well for you.
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James Gassaway...
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I use tape. I don't illegally download episodes, tape if re-usable, I don't
plan on keeping the recordings and the VCR still works just fine.
doctor...
Stuart...
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But many DVD recorders these days are available with hard drives
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Contact me and we will talk off line.
rayhigh...
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Download them, dummy.
doctor...
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I am a dial-up user.
doctor...
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Because 'high speed' is not really there. Cable and DSL
all tend to slow down in the crunch.
Forge...
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Neither one ever "slows down" to 44 kilobits per second. My cable was
running slow last week and I was still well over 1Mbps. And now I'm back
above 3, sometimes faster than my five-year-old Mac laptop can render
web pages even.
Forge...
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Hmm... I don't think it is, pretty sure it's 3Mbps down and around 1 up.
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doctor...
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Hey, I have a T1 at the office.
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John Long...
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Teh Wraith O Smeg...
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Oooh kinky... :D
-Wraith-
Sorry didn't tape anything.
John Pertwee...
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I could run tape on my DVD and send it to him if it will shut him up.
doctor...
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Just on certain aspects ofthe thread.
John Pertwee...
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Deal breaker.
doctor...
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You are in Yankland anyways.
John Pertwee...
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So what? We work on the same VHS and DVD system.
doctor...
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You never got to see the Billie Piper Christ Invasion parts a la CBC!
Love the Roots Canada.
John Pertwee...
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Yes I did. I do have a computer, you know. If it is new, and Doctor
Who releated, you can find it if you know where to look.
doctor...
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We are talking TV not computer.
John Pertwee...
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You Tube had it. Torrent sites had it. It was all over the place.
Kind of like your thoughts.
doctor...
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You are telling me the internet is tapping into my mind?
John Pertwee...
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Yes, and the internet told me it was a dry hole.
doctor...
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Shawn...
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Hypothetically, a person could find Doctor Who, or Torchwood, on IRC or
readily-available software to convert this video into a Video CD or DVD,
burn it, and play it on their DVD player.
Hypothetically, of course.
doctor...
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Still do the spy agencies run thepiratebay.org ?
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Michael Bowker...
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or stream it to their tv using an xbox or hauppauge mediamvp, or get an
xvid capable DVD player. There are tons of options out there.
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Shevek...
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Why convert? There are lots of DVD players that can play xvid, divxs, etc.
doctor...
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Brian Henderson...
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Nothing hypothetical about it, I do it every week. ;)
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Jeremy Banks, Esq...
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"Taped?" About time you joined the 21st century isn't it?
doctor...
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Conversion to DVD will happen once a single DVD standard happens.
Ian Salsbury...
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What do you mean by that? Every DVD I buy will play in every DVD player. The
Anim8rFSK...
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Well, for the most part. I've had maybe a dozen store bought DVDs that
won't play in one machine or another, although given that I've got like
5 DVD players, I can usually find one that will do the job.
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only anomaly is the Region thing which can be gotten round easier than it
ever could with tape. And do you mean *you`ll* convert or the masses?
Because the masses already have.
doctor...
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DVD+R DVD-R ?? What a toss.
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doctor...
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Region and standard are just not consistent.
John Pertwee...
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Much like your logic...
doctor...
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I prefer the Doctor's logic and not Zoe's Logic.
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Ian Salsbury...
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That`s the most terrifying offer imaginable.
doctor...
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If groups.web-search.com still have the 1991 posts, that above
use of terrifying is wrong.
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