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"The Blob" Steve McQueen learning that he needs to drive, not run.

Oh Yeah!! That was a goodie!! I saw "The Blob" at the show too!! I'm thinking I saw it around '59 or '60. I wonder if they have it on DVD?

The one that scared me most-I was about seven-was "Dracula"!!(They had both it and "Frankenstein" as a double feature in the late '40s or early '50s)

Shows how times have changed; we kids could walk up to the show alone on Saturdays-I was six and my little brother was four-we were given a dollar for the both of us and it got us into the show and paid for snacks! Not just us two kids, but a lot of our friends were there too, we had our own little section of the theater that had a couple of seats missing, that we seemed to call our own; nearly every Saturday afternoon! And ya know; we weren't roudy, we actually sat quietly and watched the movies!

But the biggest scare was in our new house on the lake in about '58, I was watching a very fuzzy-on-rabbit-ears "Shock Theater" on TV, I was a bit nervous being up all alone so I had my trusty B-B gun handy. To make a long story short, I dozed off just a little during a boring moment of "The Mummies Curse"(I think it was called)and woke up during the part where the Mummy was approaching the archiologist, one arm reaching, and dragging one foot behind him.

Luckily my aim was compromised having so quickly being awakened, that I fortunately only shot the lamp on top of the TV instead of the screen! Also fortunately, the lamp was one of those metal lamp shade varities that took the hit with little damage, But Rang Like a Bell at that hour of the night!!

Oh Yeah, no doubt! Memories of movies are lots of fun!

I don't even have a VCR hooked up in my house anymore. It's sitting in the closet collecting dust.

Does he wonder what all the fuss is about CD's as well? 8-Track sounds just as good, right?

Geez, I've got a cheapo 27" Zenith TV and I can tell the difference. There's no lines when I fast forward things... I still have the VCR hooked up, but the only time I used it in the last 2 years was when the TiVo went belly up. I recorded 1 (one) show.

The audio part of theaters has changed a lot, I think. But, I don't remember going to a theater in the 'fifties, since I was an infink at the time. Sorry, but I had a Popeye obsession back in the day.

It is sometimes amazing what just one component can do for a system.

I have a "fair" DVD player. Last month I was talking to my son about it and he told me that I did not have it connected to my reciver in the best way. I had the left/ right DVD audio output connected to my receiver dvd input and let the receiver do its "magic" for surround.

He said that I should connect to my reciver via the optical output to get full Dolby 5.1. Since I do have one and only one optical input on my old receiver, I tried it.

Well, last Friday evening, we watched U-571 again. When those depth charges went off, it was like being inside that submarine. Part of the difference could be the new VP-150 and M80s, but I really think the majority of the difference was the actual Dolby 5.1 feed.

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Does he wonder what all the fuss is about CD's as well? 8-Track sounds just as good, right?

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Close. He can't hear the difference between cassette and CD though.

Just reminded me that, like everything else, some people don't have the "taste" for video and audio. Hell, from my perspective, $9 "Sham-pagne" (product of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan) tastes the same as Dom Perignon (dirty feet is dirty feet!) - shouldn't surprise me that the same translates to something I have taste in.

And Chess - no, it's not a presentation problem... they have a pretty good 27" tube TV and friends/family with box store RPs and Plasmas.

Bren R.

Ok, this brings up MP3 vs. CD for me. How many have done direct comparisons between a mp3 at 128 or 160k (or even higher) to a CD track and did you notice a difference? I haven't done comparison, but I believe you can hear a difference, but have also read people saying that you can't.

I can hear the diff between 128k and CD, but other than that, not so much.

8-track!!?? All us old fogies upgraded to cassettes ages ago.