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If anyone messes wif my Swanson's HUNGRYMAN Fried Chick'n dinna wif my burned up chocolate cake cookie and mashed (still frozen a liddle bit) potatoes...you are in serious trouble. Canady Dry's PURPLE PASSION soda...Yum. (This was what I ate for brunch when I was a kiddie while watching Saturday morning cartoons.)
I though the fried chicken dinner had apple pie? Or was that salisbury steak?

Saturday morning cartoons. Bugs Bunny, Superfriends, Land of the Lost, Rocky and Bullwinkle...wolfing down Lucky Charms, Frankenberry or something sugary enough to put me in a diabetic coma...good times. :biggrin1:

I believe the Salisbury Steak had the apple cobbler. I ate those too. Hehehe.

I ate FRUITY PEBBLES. I still love them. (I didn't like the chocolate cereals or that cereal with BRILLO pad look. (NABISCO SHREDDED WHEAT...FROSTED MINI WHEATS:bigeyes2::ugh:)
 

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I though the fried chicken dinner had apple pie? Or was that salisbury steak?

Saturday morning cartoons. Bugs Bunny, Superfriends, Land of the Lost, Rocky and Bullwinkle...wolfing down Lucky Charms, Frankenberry or something sugary enough to put me in a diabetic coma...good times. :biggrin1:
Ah, the good old days of saturday morning cartoons. The so-called cartoons are shit these days... and cartoon network shows nothing worth watching.
 

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The difference is absolutely overrated, IMO. As I've said, I have cassettes as old as 12 years which still show perfect quality images and sounds, absolutely no problems there. It has also never occurred to me that I had to throw a cassette away because it was starting to fail in any way.

I was actually referring to the difference in image quality between streaming a compressed (say) Mpeg over a lan as opposed to viewing it direct from source via a DVD player. I was also referring to my home cinema which has close to a 10 foot screen, this tends to highlight deficiencies in the source.

I suppose it depends several factors but VHS quality played over such a setup would be most notably inferior (technically) to DVD in almost anyone's opinion...:tongue:

The reason I don't have a VCR is nothing (well, very little) to do with quality but mostly to do with the last one breaking, me not being bothered to replace it and DVD's being much more readily available.

Storing movies digitally, on hard discs or other memory media of that kind, would make sense if you are interested in owning a lot, which is a rational and understandable argument. But please indulge in my little emotional side which says that tapes and films are the media to use for something like a motion picture. On that level, it has to do less with technology and its possibilities, more with the soul of things. Irrational, I know, but that's how I see it.

I agree, and I prefer on the whole to watch movies from disc rather than hard drive, also I can't be bother ripping movies to disk, lazy you see. On a small screen (say up to 42") the difference is acceptable provided the encoding is good. But VHS quality on the other is (technically) pretty poor and would look bad next to a DVD of the same subject. As that seldom happens it's not usually a consideration.

That said, much as a great track will get one's feet tapping on a crappy old AM radio so a great movie will overcome a poor delivery system (such as VHS), simply because the content carries it.
 

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Ah, the good old days of saturday morning cartoons. The so-called cartoons are shit these days... and cartoon network shows nothing worth watching.

I remember waking up at some god awful hour like 6AM to watch Saturday morning cartoons. Ahhh.... those were the good old days.

Now cartoons are on all the time. I agree most aren't very good these days. I do like SpongeBob Squarepants however.

The Swanson's turkey frozen dinners came with a cranberry cobbler which was always under cooked because we never pulled the foil back over it.
 

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Ah, the good old days of saturday morning cartoons. The so-called cartoons are shit these days... and cartoon network shows nothing worth watching.

Depends. There is a huge variety out nowadays. Some crap, some surprisingly good.

Ed, Edd n Eddy is one of my absolute favorites!!!

And then there are the somewhat adult cartoons that are hilarious. (Southpark, Bart Simpson,Adult Swim, etc.) though they're not exactly new.

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I have a combination DVD/VCR but I can't remember the last time we used the VCR part.
 

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...had a whole bunch of viddies that were lost to the storm, (including a bunch of porn) but still use vcr's (one of which is an s-vhs) to tape shows while watchin something else on another channel.

Have a dvr too, but only use it when image quality (and keeping it) is of concern. For repetitive recording of throw-away shows, vcr's seem to be a whole lot less muss n fuss.
 

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Have a dvr too, but only use it when image quality (and keeping it) is of concern. For repetitive recording of throw-away shows, vcr's seem to be a whole lot less muss n fuss.

I think you're confusing a DVD Recorder, which burns videos to discs, with a DVR, which is just a box with a hard drive inside it for recording and time-shifting videos. Recording "throw away" programs with a DVR (think Tivo) is immensely simpler than with a VHS unit.

Most DVR units also have dual tuners, so you can watch one live video stream whilst recording another on a different channel. You can also watch a program you've already recorded while the DVR records two other programs on different channels.

And if you're a geek like me, you'll love the fact that DVRs are actually very simple Linux PCs that can be hacked to make them do all sorts of fun stuff. Like reprogramming one of the control functions to perform a 30-second skip...very convenient, since 99% of television commercial advertisements are aired in 30-second spots.
 

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I'm never quite sure now what to call the stereo, I plump for stereo because hifi sounds affected to me, and when I occasionally call it a record player the kids roll around in fits of hysterical laughter.

I have trouble using new names for things, I'll call Snickers Marathon till the day I die, and Starburst will remain Opal Fruits and when I clean I'm going to be using Jif not Cif.
 

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I still use VCRs to tape TV programs. For movies I use DVDs only.
 

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I'm never quite sure now what to call the stereo, I plump for stereo because hifi sounds affected to me, and when I occasionally call it a record player the kids roll around in fits of hysterical laughter.

I have trouble using new names for things, I'll call Snickers Marathon till the day I die, and Starburst will remain Opal Fruits and when I clean I'm going to be using Jif not Cif.

I have eaten a European MARS bar before. I was jonesing for a MARS bar (A Chocolate covered nougat bar with caramel and almonds.) The European market MARS doesn't have almonds in it. :confused: I found out that if I wanted an American MARS bar. I would have to buy a SNICKERS Almond Bar. (It was formally called MARS bar.)

The SNICKERS Marathon bar is different than the SNICKER'S bar. I remember looking at the MARATHON bar and still choosing a regular SNICKER'S over it.

There are a few EUROPEAN grocers in Asheville. Hehehe. I even saw the teal HEINZ BAKED BEANZ cans in there. (I had a giggle on that.)
 

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I have trouble using new names for things, I'll call Snickers Marathon till the day I die, and Starburst will remain Opal Fruits and when I clean I'm going to be using Jif not Cif.

The SNICKERS Marathon bar is different than the SNICKER'S bar. I remember looking at the MARATHON bar and still choosing a regular SNICKER'S over it.

Refresh my memory...Marathon bars were caramel, covered in chocolate, and woven like a rope...right?
 

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I am a now complete techno-dork and have just recently moved passed DVD into Blu-Ray. I record "religiously" on my PVR, or my computer. My VCR caught fire a few years back, literally, so I pulled the plug and never bought another one. And, I am now becoming a Hi-Def snob too, I will not record a regular program, and I seldom watch them either.

No worries about being behind the times. I have a friend who edits an online electronics magazine, and has instant access to all of the latest technology, and he still uses his VCR to record shows. Now, if your VCR happens to still be Beta, then you are either WAY behind the times, or a damned genius for hanging on to such great technology.
 

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Refresh my memory...Marathon bars were caramel, covered in chocolate, and woven like a rope...right?

I remember those.

I ate bunches of those when I was a kid.

Now, I think they are not as big and long like back in the day.

The SNICKERS MARATHON BAR is was the size of a regular SNICKERS bar. (I found out that the SNICKERS MARATHON bar is currently an energy bar.)The one I saw recently...didn't look like those MARATHON bars back in the day. THOSE MARATHON bars back in the day were very pretzelly looking and YEAH they were caramelly and chocolatey. YUM!!!
Check this bit of info out:

The Marathon candy bar | csmonitor.com
 

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I'm a dinosaur with DVDs. I don't like that you can't rewind/fast-forward to a specific part of the film the way you could with videotapes. Scene selection is just not the same. I also fuck up every option possible, including the languages. It's not uncommon for me to have a film going in Indian with Arabic subtitles just because I can't figure out how to switch languages or enable/disable anything. By the time I get it back to English, the movie's half over.
 

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I agree - the cartoons that are on now are crap. I occassionally flip through to see what's on. I'll sometimes stop on the cartoon channel if some of the classics are on (super-friends, scooby-doo, bugs bunny, etc.). This Japanese anime stuff now just doesn't cut it. :)
 

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I'm a dinosaur with DVDs. I don't like that you can't rewind/fast-forward to a specific part of the film the way you could with videotapes. Scene selection is just not the same. I also fuck up every option possible, including the languages. It's not uncommon for me to have a film going in Indian with Arabic subtitles just because I can't figure out how to switch languages or enable/disable anything. By the time I get it back to English, the movie's half over.

LMAO I thought all you hip young kids were up on the latest tech stuff.:tongue:
 

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I use my VCR every day. Don't have a DVD player, and have held back since money is tight. If I had an extra 1000 I could blow it all on DVDs.
Likewise I have maybe 100 CDs and more cassette tapes.