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On 4/17/2020 at 4:35 PM, Cafeend said:

A VCR?

 

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I was half joking, mostly b/c who wants/needs one these days.  We have family event tapes and we decided if we want to watch them we'll take them in to get professionally transferred to DVD.

Crazy but it's one of those really late purchases when tapes were pretty much almost dead.  I was recording Speedvision on there.  I bet I still have some SCCA Touring and GT races as well as some F1 races somewhere.   I probably used this thing a handful of times before it just sat idle.

I also have an unbelievable quantity of junk cables.  I can't believe I didn't clean-up all this junk sooner.  I'll probably disassemble, recycle any plastic that has recycling marks, dispose of the electronics somewhere, and take the cables into Best Buy for recycling.  I offered my kids to get to stripping the insulation and sell the copper back but they're too lazy.

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37 minutes ago, AntonioGG said:

I offered my kids to get to stripping the insulation and sell the copper back but they're too lazy.

When you come back from Best Buy stop by the bank and get out some $20s.  After you get home, casually start counting them near your kids and talk about all the cool bike parts you're going to buy with your 'cable money'.  I'd try this trick but my kids would probably strip my house electrical system down.  You can always use the $20's to bribe them to do chores later.  

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18 minutes ago, Tree Magnet said:

When you come back from Best Buy stop by the bank and get out some $20s.  After you get home, casually start counting them near your kids and talk about all the cool bike parts you're going to buy with your 'cable money'.  I'd try this trick but my kids would probably strip my house electrical system down.  You can always use the $20's to bribe them to do chores later.  

The best bribe/carrot/stick has been the xbox.  I should have gotten one sooner!

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I was half joking, mostly b/c who wants/needs one these days.  We have family event tapes and we decided if we want to watch them we'll take them in to get professionally transferred to DVD.
Crazy but it's one of those really late purchases when tapes were pretty much almost dead.  I was recording Speedvision on there.  I bet I still have some SCCA Touring and GT races as well as some F1 races somewhere.   I probably used this thing a handful of times before it just sat idle.
I also have an unbelievable quantity of junk cables.  I can't believe I didn't clean-up all this junk sooner.  I'll probably disassemble, recycle any plastic that has recycling marks, dispose of the electronics somewhere, and take the cables into Best Buy for recycling.  I offered my kids to get to stripping the insulation and sell the copper back but they're too lazy.
I donated 2 of them to Goodwill. Thought I had a third but turns out that was a DVD player. Our 19th wedding anniversary is this week and she wanted to watch the videos. I need to get the tapes digitized for reals now.


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Yeah I got a DVD player I can't even plug into the TV now.  It took me this long but I finally pulled the trigger on getting a Blu-Ray player so we can watch some of our old DVDs and Blu-Ray disks we've never been able to play.

 

We just finished the 2nd season of Counterpart.  We had started it before this whole distancing thing happened but it was a bit eerie toward the end with the theme of it.

Now we're onto Bosch since the new season came out.  We love that show and my wife reads all the books.

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I've been avoiding this thread because I really don't watch much other than sports, science, history, and geography / nature stuff. With no sports though I occasionally check the sports channels to see if I catch a good repeat of a championship game, golf or tennis championship, etc. Yesterday I picked up this documentary on the Olympics channel and I was glued to the couch. I was 10 years old in 1968, and while I was aware of the black power protest, probably from the prejudiced view of my parents at the time, I never studied the impact of it as an adult. It was so interesting to learn how Tommie Smith and John Carlos' lives differed from George Foreman, who like them emerged a champion from those games, but who chose a more politically acceptable path. I also wasn't even aware that there was a massacre of 100+ Mexican citizens (military and civilians) just days ahead of the Olympics as part of a political scheme to avoid ugly demonstrations during the games. Such a shameful incident that I don't recall ever reading about in history books. 

In regard to the black power protest that occurred there, it's an interesting contrast to what has happened more recently with the National Anthem Protests in the NFL. Frankly, while I understand that there are injustices still taking place that need to be addressed, I don't put Colin Kaapernick in the same class of activist as these genuinely human and heroic individuals who sacrificed everything to make a much needed statement. I lived in Detroit at the time these game took place and witnessed first hand the civil injustices that were occurring towards the black community. The fact that Lyndon Johnson, a self-proclaimed supporter of civil rights, dismissed these athletes in light of their decision to protest is heartbreaking. And Brent Musburger? I'd like 5 minutes in a cage with that f'n coward!

EDIT - Oh and from a sporting perspective - the introduction of the Fosbury Flop - a high-jumping technique that changed track and field forever (or at least until the next Fosbury rolls around)! 

 

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I had my kids watch that documentary as part of our home schooling (1-2 documentaries a day, mostly fun ones but they even enjoyed Michael Pollan's 2 hour In Defense of Food). 

If you're going through sports withdrawal, I highly recommend HBO Sports.  Lots of really good sports stories in there.  I'm a big documentary watcher as well.  My kids get annoyed when they asked me, "Dad, how does..." and I reply with "I'm going to find a documentary about that!".  

I also subscribe to F1 TV and you can watch tons of races on there, but lately F1 has been releasing whole classic races (e.g. 1996 Monaco GP) on YouTube.

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Finally got around to watching Breaking Bad. Got hooked early but the last season or so got a bit too off the rails (as seems common). Still enjoyed the hell out of it. Will have to check out 'Better Call Saul' now.

I may get flogged, but I love watching road racing and really missed the Spring Classics and (will probably miss most/all of the Grand Tours). I have had NBC Sports Gold for several years but poined up for Flobikes last year. I was all set to be able to watch most any major race but alas..... I especially missed Paris-Roubaix (epic race). Paris-Nice (1 week stage race) was going on when all this stuff blew up and some teams left early and they eventually scrapped the final stage. 

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21 minutes ago, GFisher said:

Finally got around to watching Breaking Bad. Got hooked early but the last season or so got a bit too off the rails (as seems common). Still enjoyed the hell out of it. Will have to check out 'Better Call Saul' now.

I may get flogged, but I love watching road racing and really missed the Spring Classics and (will probably miss most/all of the Grand Tours). I have had NBC Sports Gold for several years but poined up for Flobikes last year. I was all set to be able to watch most any major race but alas..... I especially missed Paris-Roubaix (epic race). Paris-Nice (1 week stage race) was going on when all this stuff blew up and some teams left early and they eventually scrapped the final stage. 

I've had NBC Sports Gold for several years too.  It's hard to beat the entertainment value.  Between Red Bull TV and NBC Sports Gold I get to watch the World Cups, World Championships, and most of the road races.  I've even watched some of the track world cups and world championships.  That looks intense! Cycling a track bike on a velodrome is one thing that's on my bucket list.

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Anybody watching the Jordan documentary "The Last Dance" on ESPN? I spent my middle and high school years during the 90's Bulls era. Watching these series recaps has been crazy nostalgic for me even not being a big MJ fan. I get flashbacks of watching these games at friends houses that I have long forgotten. 

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1 hour ago, notyal said:

Anybody watching the Jordan documentary "The Last Dance" on ESPN? I spent my middle and high school years during the 90's Bulls era. Watching these series recaps has been crazy nostalgic for me even not being a big MJ fan. I get flashbacks of watching these games at friends houses that I have long forgotten. 

My kids are.  Yesterday they watched the episode about Dennis Rodman, and Carmen Electra was one of the guests.  It counts as one of 2 documentaries I require them to watch and write papers about.  I haven't watched it yet but I've been watching other documentaries on HBO Sports.  The Kareem Abdul-Jabbar documentary was really good, as was the one about Maradona (the dude was brilliant, I know people say Messi is the best of all time, but watching the style of soccer back then (lots less divings, lots more fighting through the defense) it just seems very different.  I am also watching the Football (Soccer) docu series on Netflix.  The first episode was about how Football helped heal the divisions post Rwandan genocide.

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1 hour ago, Cafeend said:

Bundesliga is about to return
That's something awesome

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WHEN?????? I am all in on Bayern! The wife had turned to Korean baseball this week. It was like watching An alcoholic starting to drink nail polish remover. 

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2 hours ago, notyal said:

Anybody watching the Jordan documentary "The Last Dance" on ESPN? I spent my middle and high school years during the 90's Bulls era. Watching these series recaps has been crazy nostalgic for me even not being a big MJ fan. I get flashbacks of watching these games at friends houses that I have long forgotten. 

On my list. Lived in Chicago during those years (as well as some uglier pre-Jordan years) and everyone raves about this. 

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Been on a western kick for a bit. Some really good options streaming.

True Grit: both versions are on Amazon Prime. IMO the 2010 version, with Jeff Bridges, is vastly superior to the John Wayne one in almost every aspect. I’ve argued this with John Wayne fans, and this is the hill I choose to die on.

Hell or High Water: on Netflix. A modern day bank robber story. With Jeff Bridges, again, and Chris Pine. If you have spent time in West Texas, this will make you nostalgic. Also, just a solid film in general.


Hostiles: also on Netflix. Christian Bale spent his career fighting Indians, and now he is escorting a chief back to his homelands. Pretty brutal and unhappy, but a good show nonetheless.


The Ballad or Bust Scruggs: also Netflix. A series of short films in the Wild West. The tonal shifts between the films are drastic, but all enjoyable in their own right. 

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1 minute ago, Dan said:

Been on a western kick for a bit.

True Grit and The Ballad... are good ones for sure. And I go back and watch my favorite, Unforgiven every few years. And speaking of "westerns," I'm currently going back and watching Firefly for the 300th time. 

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Just now, Barry said:

True Grit and The Ballad... are good ones for sure. And I go back and watch my favorite, Unforgiven every few years. And speaking of "westerns," I'm currently going back and watching Firefly for the 300th time. 

Unforgiven is one of the few DVDs I still own. Intellectually, I know that Clint Eastwood plays the same character in almost every movie, but damn do I enjoy watching him shoot bad guys.
 
Also, Firefly is so much fun! I feel pretty guilty for not watching it when it actually aired.

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58 minutes ago, Dan said:

Unforgiven is one of the few DVDs I still own. Intellectually, I know that Clint Eastwood plays the same character in almost every movie, but damn do I enjoy watching him shoot bad guys.
 
Also, Firefly is so much fun! I feel pretty guilty for not watching it when it actually aired.

Saw both pale rider and unforgiven in theaters. So good

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I pretty much like any Clint Eastwood movie, but man I just watched The Mule and it was just awful.

My boys and I (15 and 13) recently watched the original True Grit.  It's rated G.  For the most part, it seems like a kids movie.  The blood is cartoonish, the only thing I thought was weird was the triple hanging in the beginning of the movie while people had their picnic.  I much prefer the Coen brothers version but the kids enjoyed the original one.

It's pretty interesting watching movies of a certain rating from different eras.

I've watched Firefly once.  I loved it so I should probably watch it again before watching all the Star Trek series for the nth time (I like to watch them in order).

The new season of Borderland on Netflix just landed so I've started watching that.

I have not finished The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.  It is bizarre!

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14 hours ago, AntonioGG said:

 

It's pretty interesting watching movies of a certain rating from different eras.

 

We have learned the hard awkward way watching movies with my kids lately that 80\90s R movies or even PG movies are way more R than movies today. I also seem to have forgotten how raunchy some of my favorite or memorable movies are. I cant believe my parents let us watch what we watched. 

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Few questions for you cable-cutting experts out there. I'm wanting to cut the cord in Aug when my latest U-verse promotion runs out. For those of you who've done it, are you subscribing to a steaming service like YT TV, Sling, or Hulu, or are you just subscribing individually to the content you want and rolling it together through some interface, like Roku? In my case I need to stream to 3 of 4 TVs simultaneously, which I know that YT TV now supports. They also appear to have a channel selection that covers most of what we would need. At $50 per month, it would still be only half of what U-verse charges for the same content. Oh and I definitely need DVR capabilities for the many recordings that my wife collects.  

Aside from the content, are you running your devices wired or wireless? Although I've got gigabit service running into my house via fiber, I don't currently have ethernet cables running to any of the TV locations, just coax. Everything runs back to a central wiring hub in my master closet. In fact I only have 3 ethernet connections throughout the house - none of which are on the same wall as a TV. Will I be able to run all of the TVs reliably wireless, possibly using the ethernet connections to install some sort of wi-fi extenders? Or should I go to the trouble and expense of getting my house better wired?   

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