Posts by Mark Philp

I use Amazon, DVDEmpire, and Deepdiscount mostly. Deepdiscount usually has the best price for what I'm looking for, but their free shipping can be slow. My suggestion is to try at least a couple of places and see which one suits your...

First of all it does refer to RKO, but this isn't really anything new. Those of us who are old enough to remember when just about all tv stations broadcast in black & white may recall that the distributors would make b/w prints of...

We had two new gas furnaces installed in our two-family home about four years ago and every August or September I have the service tech come out and clean and check them out. The peace of mind it gives me more than outweighs the cost....

Well you may be right. I did try doing that a couple of times even keeping it unplugged over a weekend to know avail. I have a feeling that they really accidently close my account on that unit, but didn't want to say so. Anyway, its...

Film Addict: I don't think anyone should come down on you. Everybody makes mistakes. I think you did the right thing by blowing them in to the FBI. I doubt that you'll see your $80 again, but at least you have the satisfaction of...

A friend of mine is the last "factory authorized" Eiki serviceman in Upstate New York and I'm pretty sure he can help you. Send me a private message and I'll give you his name address and number.

Thanks guys, for your suggestions. Here's the latest. First I checked the signal strength and it was zero on both satellites. Well, then I went to the system information page just to see if there was anything useful there and I found...

I own three R-10s and they're the best. However, one of them is sick. All I get is a full-screen message that says "recorder must reaquire information from satellite" and "0% complete". It's been that way for days. I tried all the usual...

I haven't seen that DVD, but usually if the movie is on two discs the "intermission" music will be the end of of disc one and the "entr' acte" music will start disc two. In cases, when it's all one one disc they usually butt them both...

Intermission music was always played at the end of the first part. After an "intermission" title on the screen, for fifteen or twenty seconds, the curtain would close, the lights would come up and the music would continue for a few...