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Cheesy Movies, and Where to Find Them [message #307685] Wed, 06 January 2016 16:36 Go to next message
Doug Elrod is currently offline  Doug Elrod
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With the demise of the small UHF stations (like KTMA), the cheap (and sometimes out-of-copyright) movies they used to show might be harder to find. But it appears that SUBCHANNELS in the new broadcast digital system are CHOCK-FULL of them!

If you have a "digital cable" system, you can occasionally find these channels hidden away at the high numbers (say, 1500 (!)). If you happen to have a "TV Antenna", you can attach it to your digital TV (and make sure to tell the TV that you wish to tune to antenna-based channels), and then find these channels (at locations such as "4-3" or "12-2").

It appears that many of the old original "Mystery Science Theater 3000" movies are still being aired this way, along with many others which look EMINENTLY MSTable!

-Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)
submitted for your approval, in case anyone out there has *need* of such movies! ;-)
Re: Cheesy Movies, and Where to Find Them [message #307698 is a reply to message #307685] Wed, 06 January 2016 16:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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If I don't reply to this Doug Elrod post, the terroists win.

> With the demise of the small UHF stations (like KTMA), the
> cheap (and sometimes out-of-copyright) movies they used to
> show might be harder to find. But it appears that SUBCHANNELS
> in the new broadcast digital system are CHOCK-FULL of them!
>
> If you have a "digital cable" system, you can occasionally
> find these channels hidden away at the high numbers (say, 1500
> (!)). If you happen to have a "TV Antenna", you can attach it
> to your digital TV (and make sure to tell the TV that you wish
> to tune to antenna-based channels), and then find these
> channels (at locations such as "4-3" or "12-2").
>
> It appears that many of the old original "Mystery Science
> Theater 3000" movies are still being aired this way, along
> with many others which look EMINENTLY MSTable!
>
> -Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)
> submitted for your approval, in case anyone out there has
> *need* of such movies! ;-)
>
>

Archive.org. That is all.


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Re: Cheesy Movies, and Where to Find Them [message #307728 is a reply to message #307698] Wed, 06 January 2016 21:40 Go to previous message
weary flake is currently offline  weary flake
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On 2016-01-06 21:55:35 +0000, Freezer said:

> If I don't reply to this Doug Elrod post, the terroists win.

The terrorists already control the TV networks, so
they've already won that battle. But there's still DVDs
of MST3K, an excellent source of cheesy movies, with
running commentary too. And for non-msted movies in
hi-def, there's blu-rays out there of movies like Manos:

http://www.amazon.com/Manos-Hands-Blu-ray-Tom-Neyman/dp/B012 BD3RNU/

>> With the demise of the small UHF stations (like KTMA), the
>> cheap (and sometimes out-of-copyright) movies they used to
>> show might be harder to find. But it appears that SUBCHANNELS
>> in the new broadcast digital system are CHOCK-FULL of them!
>>
>> If you have a "digital cable" system, you can occasionally
>> find these channels hidden away at the high numbers (say, 1500
>> (!)). If you happen to have a "TV Antenna", you can attach it
>> to your digital TV (and make sure to tell the TV that you wish
>> to tune to antenna-based channels), and then find these
>> channels (at locations such as "4-3" or "12-2").
>>
>> It appears that many of the old original "Mystery Science
>> Theater 3000" movies are still being aired this way, along
>> with many others which look EMINENTLY MSTable!
>>
>> -Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)
>> submitted for your approval, in case anyone out there has
>> *need* of such movies! ;-)
>
> Archive.org. That is all.

A list of movies you'ved watched from archive.org might help.
We need to watch as much cheesy movies as possible to defeat
terrorism.
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