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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 23:54:45 GMT
I have a Sony Walkman from the early 80s and thought I'd look on ebay to see if it was worth anything. There's only one on there that I can see and it's broken. Seller wants $399 for it! Tis one of these: www.walkmancentral.com/products/wm-dc2 |
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Post by LandieMark on May 18, 2017 6:36:19 GMT
I fondly remember the Walkman I had in the late 80s well into the 90s. It was one of these. Barely bigger than a cassette and the sound quality was superb.   |
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Post by Blarno on May 18, 2017 7:50:11 GMT
Ah, happy days. That feeling of panic as the music slowed down when the batteries were running out.
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Post by humphreythepug on May 19, 2017 8:04:54 GMT
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
Don't bother!
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Post by Stuntman on May 20, 2017 14:22:08 GMT
I've still got a walkman kicking around somewhere in Duke Towers, hopefully in working order. I still have quite a few original cassettes that I haven't replaced on CD, and nothing really to play them on.
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Post by franki68 on May 22, 2017 13:31:00 GMT
There is nothing good about cassette tapes.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2017 14:08:34 GMT
Not since the eighties anyway.
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Post by Big Blue on May 23, 2017 9:17:49 GMT
I've had a car film week of sorts. Last Thursday W2.0 was out for the evening so I put the girls to bed, fired up the Blu-Ray and the sound bar and watched Steve McQueen's Le Mans. Great film, and whilst I am a huge fan of Frankenheimer's Grand Prix I guess there is no greater racing story on film.... or is there?
This week I had the good fortune to watch Rush. As a film it has the benefit of being a Ron Howard movie and there's probably not many greater story-telling directors out there currently, if ever. I have avoided it until now as I was wary of seeing an actor playing someone so familiar as James Hunt but now I've seen it I reckon it's up there at the top of the genre. Loved the romanticised plot lines allied to the factual elements and was also reminded that when Niki Lauda saw the movie (his wife had to tell him who Daniel Brühl was) and saw himself being portrayed on the screen he said: "that's me; that's really me."
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 23, 2017 9:36:20 GMT
Rush is a great film, I think I've watched it 3 times now. I agree Daniel Bruhl was excellent.
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Post by scouse on May 24, 2017 14:58:39 GMT
Rush is a great film, I think I've watched it 3 times now. I agree Daniel Bruhl was excellent. Even Mrs Scouse love's Rush, although that might have something to do with Thor playing Hunt. Agree about Bruhl, it was almost like watching a serious impersonator. |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 24, 2017 15:28:31 GMT
Rush is a great film, I think I've watched it 3 times now. I agree Daniel Bruhl was excellent. Even Mrs Scouse love's Rush, although that might have something to do with Thor playing Hunt. Agree about Bruhl, it was almost like watching a serious impersonator. I've got a bit of a thing for Alexandra Maria Lara who played Lauda's wife. I first saw her in Control, the Joy Division film, where she played Annick Honore, the Belgian fan that Ian Curtis had an affair with. |
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Post by scouse on May 25, 2017 9:19:24 GMT
New series of Game Of Thrones starts 16th July
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Post by PG on May 25, 2017 12:10:50 GMT
New series of Game Of Thrones starts 16th July That'll be 16th July 2018 for those of us waiting for the DVD then..... |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 25, 2017 13:07:32 GMT
New series of Game Of Thrones starts 16th July That'll be 16th July 2018 for those of us waiting for the DVD then..... That was us for the first few seasons and then we got one of these Now TV boxes for £6.99 a month. All the Sky channels and all the box sets so we can watch GoT as it's broadcast. Brilliant value. |
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Post by johnc on May 25, 2017 14:00:17 GMT
I presume that for a Now box to pick up all the Sky channels it must have had the automotive equivalent of being chipped!
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2017 14:36:45 GMT
She plays Hitler's typist in Downfall. Traudl Junge?
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 25, 2017 14:53:41 GMT
I presume that for a Now box to pick up all the Sky channels it must have had the automotive equivalent of being chipped! No, Now TV is owned by Sky and it's perfectly legit. It's a simple white 4" x 4" box that plugs into your TV and runs off your wifi. www.nowtv.com/There's no contract so you can cancel when you like. When I say it gets all the Sky channels I mean all the entertainment channels including Sky Atlantic and access to all the Box Sets - if you want the Sport you have to buy a 24hr pass for £7 or a week pass for £11, ideal if you want to watch something like The Masters but don't want a Sky Sports subscription. Similar passes are available for Sky Cinema. |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 25, 2017 14:55:19 GMT
She plays Hitler's typist in Downfall. Traudl Junge? Yes, you're right. |
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Post by Tim on May 25, 2017 15:12:18 GMT
I believe the term for modern electronics is 'jailbroken'
Do you get the documentary channels with Now TV?
We used to get loads of stuff through a Sky box but without a card. Now we hardly get any extra channels and its the documentaries I miss the most.
I haven't seen any Nazi Megastructures for weeks!!
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 25, 2017 16:00:12 GMT
I believe the term for modern electronics is 'jailbroken' Do you get the documentary channels with Now TV? We used to get loads of stuff through a Sky box but without a card. Now we hardly get any extra channels and its the documentaries I miss the most. I haven't seen any Nazi Megastructures for weeks!! Yes you do - everything except Sports and Cinema. You also get iPlayer, ITV Hub, 4 on Demand etc and some other stuff I've not really explored. Plus 250 box sets. |
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Post by Alex on May 25, 2017 19:07:01 GMT
That'll be 16th July 2018 for those of us waiting for the DVD then..... That was us for the first few seasons and then we got one of these Now TV boxes for £6.99 a month. All the Sky channels and all the box sets so we can watch GoT as it's broadcast. Brilliant value. I got Now TV for this reason too as has my colleague who ditched his regular Sky subscription for it and used the saving to get Netflix too. |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2017 20:04:29 GMT
I have NowTV, Amazon Prime, Netflix and Eurosport all for less than it would cost for the average Sky TV package. So much to watch and so little time!
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2017 8:28:34 GMT
I have the Amazon Firestick which I was informed by a local user said had "Everything included". After I got it I found it does not have evrything on it and rarely use it. Apparently you have to install a piece of software called Kodi to get everything. Honestly, local experts......
Now TV looks interesting as the old freeview box I have is a little long in the tooth being from 2012.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2017 14:51:31 GMT
Person of interest, nothing special but a reasonable watch compared to the majority drivel of game shows and repeats of repeatedly repeated encore presentations. MASH seems to be on permanent loop on freeview 61. There is something that really gets my goat though and it is the Regal London sponsorship of the 5 channels. The gimp playing a stringed broom is a depressing interruption that I do not need. He looks like a human puppet with a size 20 glove up his Khyber. NOT classy, especially when Buster the Boxer is around. I know, I know..........
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Post by Tim on May 26, 2017 15:29:56 GMT
There is something that really gets my goat though and it is the Regal London sponsorship of the 5 channels. The gimp playing a stringed broom is a depressing interruption that I do not need. He looks like a human puppet with a size 20 glove up his Khyber. NOT classy, especially when Buster the Boxer is around. I know, I know..........
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2017 15:59:17 GMT
She is rather sexy. Not in Downfall, though, I'd imagine. The real Marlene was just as hot, but Mr Lauda's current wife is smokin'!
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2017 17:46:17 GMT
At each end of the ads there is a clip "Sponsored by" advertising schpiel. In this case a gimp playing what I can only describe as a stringed broom, sometimes up a tree. His face can only be described as someone being forced to get bj from a piranha.
It has driven me so far up the wall I do not watch any of the 5 channels.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 26, 2017 18:21:25 GMT
She is rather sexy. Not in Downfall, though, I'd imagine. The real Marlene was just as hot, but Mr Lauda's current wife is smokin'! On the grounds of good taste I will refrain from pointing out that, at one time, so was he. |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2017 8:30:36 GMT
Anyone else watch C4's The Trial? A real judge, barristers, court etc, with actors as accused, family, witnesses etc, but a jury of ordinary folk. I can't remember whether they were aware it wasn't real, but I'm pretty sure that they weren't. Pretty well done, but my overriding memory will be how unfit for the purposes of clear thinking deliberation most of the jury members were. Frighteningly so, in fact.
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Post by cbeaks1 on May 29, 2017 15:49:26 GMT
The jury I was in was only about about 60% competent. There were a few that just wanted it over as they were busy and others that said at the start 'he looks guilty'.
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