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Although, if you are on DSL/Cable/etc with no Analog Modem installed then you are quite safe from dialers. If you have to stick with IE try grabbing popupkiller and the google toolbar, between the two of them I rarely see a popup even once and then never again. Popupkiller may be hard to find so try http://www.whathe.com/puksetup1453.exe

That was the first thing I tried, Rant. What about "tweaking" web sites; do they help any at all? Edit: And did that guy who replied first get banned or something, cuz now all of a sudden he's unregistered? He may have been banned but he had a good question, give us the specs and some comparison websites too please.

Let me know if this isn't exactly what you are looking for. 1. Copy the non-movie files (jpgs and docs mentioned) to HD. 2. Use something like DVD Decryptor to rip the Video/Audio_TS 3. Open toast wizard, DVD->Other->Video DVD. 4. Drop in and replace the Video/Audio_ts folders and then drop in the files from 1. Also, what Movie is it? I can experiment with it myself (at work at Video Rental store right now!)

I know you arlready gave yourself a Barry Horrowitz but I have to second it. This is a concrete good point that I can agree with. Folks want to get mad about WWE re-writing history? Go make a website dedicated to preserving the "~TRUTH!" because whining about it on this forum isn't going to do much. Does this mean I think it is "hip" and "cool" to re-write history? I'm of the opinion that sometimes, when you get bitter/jaded/old/what-have-you enough that, "A little injustice can be a good thing."

It would be more accurate to say she was simply "kidnapped for the first 15 years or so of the comic." Although she was still more mature than Johnny was in those early comics so you've both got a point.

On the VHS front... I work at a Rental Store in San Francisco, last time I went to make an account for somebody we had over 80,000 customers, I say this for perspective only... not bragging. It is becoming more and more frequent that, when we reccomend a title only available on VHS (we have a lot of rare and import stuff), the customer will actually claim to not own a VCR. That being said we will ALWAYS carry VHS rentals unless we break down and start transferring those rarities to DVD and renting out Players for cheap/free with the rental. Hell we would still be renting Laserdiscs if they weren't so danged huge! Our LD fan base was really disapointed when we had to pull them off the floor.

Anyways, it's a multi-regional burger joint, similar to Hardees and Carl Jr's I think... While I appreciate the Kevin Kline joke I must take umbrage with comparing In-N-Out to Carl Jr. That is just mean to Hardees (same as Carls Jr btw folks.) In-N-Out Burger seemed to creep forth from the bowls of pretentiousness in Los Angelas. They basically serve only Basic Burgers and Psuedo Fresh Cut Frys in an attempt to come across as some kind of mom and pop, back to basics restraunt from the 50's. Yet you are sitting in some plasticised, uniformed employeed fast food chain so you aren't fooling anyone. Everyone seems to think their burgers, "Are the bomb yo!" when they first go there and slowly forget the place even exists after about 6 months. Oh, and I'm not bitter at all, nope nope. Not because the first time I went to one (somewhere on I-5 in California) they told me they don't offer Mayonaise... I've noticed the "no mayo" stance seems to have disapeared.

God damn it would be amazingly great if parents were responsible for their children... ...hey wait a minute! Now lets all steer this to Movies and Video Games killing people! Sounds rather silly of the GuvMent to reccomend "No sex!" to a bunch of people who are genetically wired to sex the next thing that kinda looks like a hole and scream "I'd hit it!" in online forums at the drop of a hat.

Super Mega Ultra Seconded!

If there is proper advanced notice to the Tivo service it will catch it. Although a recent example of something my Tivo couldn't deal with would be Raw a few episodes back that was about 22 minutes OT. Although I do have my timer set to grab an additional 20 minutes of any Raw showing. I still missed the ending of the matches but I got to see most of it, for what it's worth. You can set your Tivo to grab anything with a keyword, title, actor... all kinds of stuff but I never use this myself. That would probably help greatly to avoid missing a program.

I second this experience. While I probably have more TV set to record than previous to owning a Tivo I tend to watch stuff like Smackdown in under 30 minutes. Another good example is Iron Chef which can be chopped WAY down without re-watching all the filler every episode.

Dual tuner DirectTivo's have been around for quite a while but they have always required a second line and I don't see this ever changing. Every satelite dish is capable of putting out 2 lines without any additional equipment though. If you want a Direct TV integrated Tivo unit that can record(watch) two things at once and playback a third you will always need two lines. This is not as bad as it may seem, why? Because they will not charge you for the additonal line at installation nor will they charge you for it monthly. Direct TV charges per Receiver specifically, not per line. Most of their installation packages wont cost you anything for up to at least four lines and I recently (January actually) had the guy throw in 2 spare lines while he was here and it only cost me some politeness and a cold beer. I've seen posts on usenet of people bragging that they've gotten dual tuner HDVR2 Tivo's for as little as $59 after mail in rebates. They probably also had to get a year of service or new installation etc but even without they are incredibly cheap and you will own it personally (whether that is an advantage or not is up to you, comcast DVR's are rental only ATM.) Remember that with integrated DirecTivo you pay $4.99 a month for "Tivo Service" that you must subscribe to. Hope that covers everything. Basically you will always have to have two cables running to your DirecTivo if you want the dual tuner capability but it doesn't cost you anything other than the physical space they consume in your home. As for exporting, for Tivo specifically this is a ranges from "stupid simple" to "moderately hard" depending on what you want to do. Any analog "capture card" can be used to grab from any DVR sorce, this is "stupid simple." If you want to do what the Tivo comunity calls "digital extraction" this can be done but it is not the easiest of tasks. Your best bet for digital extraction is to buy your Tivo pre-hacked with FTP and Telnet enabled or buy and upgrade HD that has these features enabled and add/replace your existing drive. From there you need to disable copy protection on the recordings and install an FTP that can see the partition they are stored on. Finally pick the suite of tivo editing tools you like and start making DVDs and VCDs. Are there some pitfalls here? Yeah, picking the copy protect solution that best suits you can be hard and if you aren't going to go with pre-hacked or a new HD there are lots of trials to be had hacking your Tivo. For me I bought an upgrade HD and kept the old one pristine as a backup. From there I already had a compatible USB ethernet adapter so I through that in, Tivo saw it and quickly converted over automatically. I chose to simply disable any further copy protection on recordings meaning anything I already had was a lost cause, no big deal. From there I installed a few different FTP programs for extracting videos but ended up using "Tserver" with "TyTool" which basically allows me to FTP the files from the Tivo directly to TY(one of 3 nearly identical tivo movie formats) or MPEG2. From there TyTool can also VobMux the files (DVD format) for you to use with other DVD authoring tools, OR it can make a simple DVD menus and save them as apropriate IFO Files and Dirs for use with Nero etc. Every week I export and make a DVD of the Adult Swim block plus The Simpsons/Futurama/King of the Hill block for a friend of mine in the Navy. Using the GOP editor in TyTool I can edit out the commercials and whittle all six hours of those shows down to one DVD generally with a bit of room to spare (half hour or so, sometimes throw in an MXC.) This all takes about 2 or 2.5 hours of exporting the files (they are huge 4+ gig files) and about 10-20 minutes of editing, menu making and IFO writing. Sorry for the huge post, for details on TIVO extraction etc go to www.dealdatabase.com forum and start reading. Seriously though, read before posting there or they will skin you alive.

I've had both and currently own a HDVR2 integrated Direct TV Tivo. Over two years ago I had a Dish Network DVR. It was really neat and I loved using it in conjunction with my VCR for offloading/archiving my favorite shows. I kept reading up on the comparisons between my PVR500 and the Tivo's that were out at the time and, even with my "owner loyalty" I was kinda bummed out that Tivo looked better. Regardless the PVR500 was a very good tool. About 8 months into owning it I had to move and couldn't take the PVR with me. In that market I would have been insane to stick with a Dish PVR as they still didn't have dual tuner (record two shows at once) the price was very uncompetitive ($300 - $350+ compared to DirecTivo $199) and DirecTV was offering one year commitment plans that beat out Dish at that time. Not to mention the simple curiosity of trying the other satelite company. This was in late January 2003. Having switched from one to the other in less than a week I remember these things. 1. The DirecTivo was way faster in all ways, changing channels, starting/stopping recordings etc and general menus and use. 2. My old PVR500 was basically a VCR, the Tivo had all kinds of crazy seeming gewgaws and features. So basically the Tivo was everthing the PVR500 was plus it was faster had dual tuners and a bunch of features I came to appreciate (season pass and keyword recordings etc.) Plus there was a whole huge community of people upgrading and hacking their Tivo's out there that I never found while I was stuck with Dish Network DVRs. I guess I'm saying there is no way I would recommend, based on DVR alone, Dish over Direct. If you weren't getting a DVR then it's got to be either Dish (for that warm fuzzy "supporting the home grown underdog" feeling) or Cable. Really, even then, it is Cable all the way if available as it is generally cheaper and more user friendly (can split the signal yourself for as many VCRs as you want etc.) Although if we are talking about some kind of non-satelite, non-tivo DVR then I've no idea or experience with that. I don't see how any non-tivo DVR could really be "better" outside of any subjective capacity let alone "smoke" it. I doubt I would choose a standalone DVR over my integrated DirecTivo at any rate. :-)

I'm not sure how it did that but try AdAware from Lavasoft. I've yet to see an spyware infection that it couldn't remove and it is constantly updated. http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ As for Canadian Stampede I have a 1st Generation copy of the PPV brodcast (1st showing if it matters) and a capture card, broadband, etc. I'd be happy to encode and share it if someone has a good suggestion for where and what format.

While I'm not certain he would get uber heel heat I do think the idea merits more than a sarcastic passive agressive blaise answer like this. No, it really doesn't. This is the oldest gimmick in the book, and it's been done with just about every nationality, to the point where I can't even care. It pumps up the live crowd, but I honestly don't think that people spend money on tickets or PPVs, or tune into the TV shows because they want to see those "French-Canadian" bastards get it. Maybe I could have candy coated what I was getting at to protect this guy's feelings, but I stand by my intention. I mean, really, can you think of any other place for them to go with this tired gimmick? I appreciate that you put more effort into this response than the previous "half a sentence" answer. I'm not sure where else they need to go beyond being a "crowd warmer" for live crowds. I think it is a perfectly acceptable place for a team so young. They are doing the job that Hogan was/should have been doing a while back. I don't think anyone at WWE expects them to bring in huge, or even any, ratings at all.

What a reatrded gym bag. Oh holy crap that made me laugh inapropriately at work! HEH. I'm loving the Eugene stuff but I'm not holding out for a happy ending which is slowly killing it for me. At least it seems to be a somewhat planned out story.

Where did you find this from? I was more interested in why he would put "corporation?" whith a question mark(as if it wasn't) then write "WWE Entertainment inc.(INCORPORATED)." Somebody mentioned the WWE e-fed would be like "fantasy baseball" how is that run? Do you just make up or pick a team then wait around and see if you "win?"

Huh, that is what you liked about it? The crash in the begining... I liked the guy shooting morphine in his eyes or the animals tracking by smells of blood and menstrual fluids. Lots of great imagery in the film, ranging from blazing deserts to Sci-Fi bondage prison to pitch black night scenes in box canyons. Good movie!

Green Ranger ruled because he always said "Hut Sek HiYah" when doing kung fu stuffs. Plus he was the loner stealing the pink ranger away from the red ranger.

...and you'd never know it since they only ever show Mooninites and Mooninites Revenge. Damn, we used to quote the crap out of that episode, peoples computers proclaimed their lack of need for instructions on how to ROCK non-stop at work. Now it is beaten into the ground!

Whole heartedly agree. The deleted Ghostbuster scenes are doing just fine on the editing room floor for instance. Another good example for unrated versions is the edited Bad Lieutenant which basically worthless vs. the proper cut. The point about teen sex comedies is a good one though. Oh and here is another vote for Bad Santa, amazing sleeper!

While I'm not certain he would get uber heel heat I do think the idea merits more than a sarcastic passive agressive blaise answer like this. I've always wished Val would wear flesh colored tights and that purple helmet from his intro to the ring. Rhyno and Tajiri is good, what about Val and Tajiri? Or would Val still be gun shy of Japanese partners after old "choppy choppy"? It seems so weird that he is still "Val Venis the porn star wrestler" after all this time...

Folks, Viacom posts profits in Billions of dollars as in multi-billion dollars. For a small sample of their profits (from I believe 2003) check http://bth.broadcastengineering.com/ar/bro...m_makes_profit/ and they are constantly meeting or exceeding their growth predictions on that. So if they want to spend 25 million a year subsidizing RAW they can afford it. Hell they could afford to spend 40 times that at 1 billion dollars! As for THE (heh heh) WWE staying in buisness, they have BARELY tightened their belts in recent years. Their model of paying wrestlers (downsides and profit sharing) is very flexible and helps in this. Not to mention they have tons of untapped money in DVD sales alone with their, now even vaster, tape library.

Thanks for the info. It's too bad, I suppose one could just output it to tape or capture card or whatever but that is the middle man that this lazy fellow just can't be bothered with.

Yeah, same question here. If this is for download than it is too good to be true, if it is streaming only then it is too lame to be true! Oh yeah the question being, "Is this streaming only or do we get to download and keep the stuff?"