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Derwin0
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Welcome to the Doctor Who fan forum

Welcome to the Doctor Who fan forum. A forum to discuss one of the longest shows ever on tv, being made by the BBC since 1963.

Both the classic and new series can be discussed here.
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Dr Who on British TV

Dr Who Planet Of The Dead was aired on BBC HD April 11th lasting 59min with a trailer of The Waters Of Mars at the end of the program. It was the first showing in HD, all previous episodes have been in SD here in England. If it has not been aired in the U.S. yet then watch it in HD if possible when it is next on. The HD Quality was excellent. After the episode was shown then Dr Who Confidential was aired on BBC3 in SD lasting 48min, this is a follow up program that shows how the episode was made. For every Dr Who episode there is a follow on program on how the episode is made and this is shown right after the program but always on BBC 3, I wonder if you get to see Dr Who Confidential in the U.S. I have seen every episode from day one back when it was in black and white and used to have every episode on Betamax until I gave most of them away. These days you can see all the original episodes repeated on some of the European Science Fiction Channels and the quality is very good considering the age of them. A while ago the BBC was advertising asking the general public if they had any early recordings of Dr Who as it had some missing from its archives and some time later they aired some of these recordings which were not very good quality.Since Dr Who came back on air a couple of years ago I have recorded every episode onto DVD along with the Confidential episodes and now I have a copy in HD of the latest episode maybe this time I shall keep them.
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Latest Dr Who DVD

I have just read in What's on TV magazine a small article that says Planet Of The Dead episode will be available on DVD from June 15th. There was no mention of a U.S.release date but it may well be of a similar time.
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Derwin0
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thebrit said:
I have just read in What's on TV magazine a small article that says Planet Of The Dead episode will be available on DVD from June 15th. There was no mention of a U.S.release date but it may well be of a similar time.
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Typically Doctor Who DVD's arn't released in the U.S. until after Scifi shows it. So it might be a wait.
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My first Doctor Who experience came in the early 80's from PBS Channel 11 Chicago , Tom Baker as the Doctor .

I couldn't get enough of the Doctor and there really wasn't any licensing agreement for merchandise in North America so I had to setlle with collecting the paperback books, later I was able to get some items as imported goods at specialty shops and at festivals.

High School came around and interest in Doctor Who had peaked a couple years earlier when the High School I attended formed a Doctor Who fanclub and they even had there own Doctor Who festival with rare episodes from the early years thanks to the advisor who's son was a BIG FAN and had a massive collection of old episodes and newer episodes that hadn't been picked up by our local PBS station.

I was a Doctor Who geek since the 6th grade and saw both Tom Baker at a Sci-Fi convention in and Peter Davidson at a Sci-Fi fantasy Store , the 5th doctor signed a book for me which I still have.

No longer attached to my collectibles I sold some of my doctor who items on Ebay a few years back , but I still have the digital pictures .

Date sold and what it sold for accompany the picture description title , funny thing was that the buyers were from the U.K. since the Return of Doctor Who sparked renewed interest.
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The first Dr. Who I ever saw was Peter Cushing in the movie Dr. Who and the Daleks. I was very young and I was fascinated by robots. I really thought robots were real...like in Tobor the Great, and the Lost in Space robot, but I never seen anything like the Daleks...but it wasn't till a few years later that I got into the Dr. Who series on PBS in Chicago. Tom Baker was the first real Dr. Who I seen and I've been hooked ever since. I still love whenever the Daleks are brought back and I miss K-9! I do like David Tennant and I give it to the Brits for keeping the series going after all these years. I'm always thankful when I hear it's going to be on some station in the U.S., even if they cut it every 10 minutes for 3 minutes of adds(SciFi).
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dishstaller
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I think we could all use a laugh - Rodney Dangerfield on Carson

Good...simple humor. Enjoy


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92AtfTLge4

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJy0WnejlF4
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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
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I loved it when Rodney was on the Tonight Show...
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dishstaller said:
Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
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Thanks, I wasn't sure if you had the wrong Subject or the wrong YouTube link.
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osu1991
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Was a Don Rickles fan. I've dvr'd most of his appearances on Carson from the antenna tv replays.

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RIP Patrick Stewart

Patrick Stewart died yesterday, October 28th at the age of 86. We lost yet another great actor. :(

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain and ‘X-Men’ Superhero, Dies at 86

He’s forever known for playing Jean-Luc Picard and Charles Xavier, whom he “admired for their morality, for their kindness, for their sensitivity, for their compassion.”
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This hits hard, R.I.P. ...
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"MysteryMan"
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Windows 10/11 Download

I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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EarDemon
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If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.
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EarDemon said:
If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything. ☹️
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WhiteBeard said:
To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything. ☹️
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For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.

I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
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I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows.
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What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI? By many accounts, it has been going downhill since Windows 7.

There are Linux desktops that offer Windows or Mac UIs, yet you don't hear much chatter about them outside of questions about when the creators might get sued.
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What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI?
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Because it's what I prefer. I know I've said this a few times, I use Open Shell to give me the cascading start menu a la WIN 95 and NT4.0. The only reason I went from Windows Vista to 7 back in the day was because of Classic Shell. I cannot stand anything other than the OG start menu from 30+ years ago. I'm using ExplorerPatcher to give me Windows 10 UI elements of the taskbar and right click context menus.

If you could take a look at how I set up Windows 95, you'd find many similarities to how I use 11.
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I could probably use that as a starting point, but I don't like the full size icons. If you have to click on each folder that's also a no-go for me, it has to be cascading.

I used to have Peppermint Linux in a VM, that was about as close as I could get to recreating a Windows NT4.0 style of menu structure, but I could never get it to scale properly in VMWare on a 4K display and eventually gave up.

Whatever the boot up time it's fine with me. The longest part of my bootup is the HP SureStart BIOS integrity check. Once that is done, it's only a few more seconds. I haven't done this reg tweak yet since the reformat, but I switched the bootup animation to the Windows 10 style spinning circle of dots, and it's two and a half rotations. I can live with that.
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harshness
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EarDemon said:
Because it's what I prefer.
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I hope you don't believe that makes it wonderful (especially when you're using workarounds for Microsoft's malfeasance).

I use LibreOffice as opposed to Microsoft office (even in Windows) because it's UI is like the Office of old, so I'm putting my money where my mouth is (in a manner of speaking). The ribbon was one of the worst ideas to come out Redmond.
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EarDemon said:
I could probably use that as a starting point, but I don't like the full size icons. If you have to click on each folder that's also a no-go for me, it has to be cascading.

I used to have Peppermint Linux in a VM, that was about as close as I could get to recreating a Windows NT4.0 style of menu structure, but I could never get it to scale properly in VMWare on a 4K display and eventually gave up.

Whatever the boot up time it's fine with me. The longest part of my bootup is the HP SureStart BIOS integrity check. Once that is done, it's only a few more seconds. I haven't done this reg tweak yet since the reformat, but I switched the bootup animation to the Windows 10 style spinning circle of dots, and it's two and a half rotations. I can live with that.
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I used to pin the C: drive to the Win Taskbar and it would open in cascading style
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"MysteryMan"
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2026-10 Preview Update Builds: 26300.9818 and 26200.9818 (KB5127936) has been released. Moderate time needed for those choosing to perform a manual download/install/restart. Quality improvements only. No new operating system features.
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Actually it looks like there are a lot of features new or updated, although most are on a gradual rollout schedule.

www.elevenforum.com

KB5127936 Windows 11 Cumulative Update Preview build 26200.9818 (25H2) and 26300.9818 (26H2) - Oct. 28

Microsoft Support: This cumulative update for Windows 11, versions 26H2 and 25H2 (KB5127936), includes production-quality improvements. Announcements and messages This section provides key notifications related to this release, including announcements, change logs, and end-of-support notices...
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ATSC 3 converter boxes

Interesting article about the work being done to develope an ATSC 3 converter box. Yes it does mention affordable.
www.tvtechnology.com

Pearl TV Issues Progress Report on Low-Cost 3.0 Converters in Advance of NAB Show New York

Group has secured lower pricing from key tech players to make less costly boxes available
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primestar31
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DEATH TO NEXGEN!
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It's dead, they just don't know it yet. They killed it by forcing DRM on it, and that TOTALLY botched implementing it.

There is absolutely NO compelling reason for anybody to switch to ATSC3.0. They only want it as a total and complete money grab.
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What bothers me is the total waste of broadcasting spectrum in this very crowded market. It has been almost three years now since KFOX converted their broadcast tower to ATSC 3.0 and moved all of their channels to other towers causing noticeable degradation of the picture quality.
I have a Sony TV with 3.0 capabilities but still use the 1.0 version of locals due to the fact that one or all of the 3.0 channels are often missing or unwatchable. In this city of 800K I doubt that more than a few hundred even know about ATSC 3.0.
The only thing that could motivate me to be interested in 3.0 would be if all of the minor networks (diginets) could be in at least 720P rather than blurry ultra-compressed 480i.
Three years is long enough to waste one of the few available RF frequencies in the area for this trial.
It is time to either move on with this experiment or call it quits.
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navychop
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Mister B said:
It is time to either move on with this experiment or call it quits.
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QFT. Of course, my preference involves a curb and some kicking.
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It's dead, they just don't know it yet. They killed it by forcing DRM on it, and that TOTALLY botched implementing it.

There is absolutely NO compelling reason for anybody to switch to ATSC3.0. They only want it as a total and complete money grab.
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WHAT ABOUT THE INTERNET PART OF IT. NO ONE WANTS A BOX CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET EITHER.
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Cough, cough. COVID vaccine implants.

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navychop said:
Cough, cough. COVID vaccine implants.

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That would be handy. Download the latest RNA snippets that can be updated over 5G and no more shots! You're a Genius!
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I want it and I have to have it.

I can neuter the phoning home with adguard home so it won't be doing that in my castle but I prefer without Internet so that my TVs in the house don't turn into e-waste
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Hopper 3 with Hopper plus internet connection problems

Over the past few weeks, I have had problems connecting to streaming services (Netflix, HBO et al). When I go to the TV's native Channels, I have no problem. The Dish internet troubleshooter shows I have a good internet connection. I'm wondering whether it's an issue with my internet provider or a problem with the Dish software on the Hopper Plus. Anyone else seeing this?
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mheisen said:
Over the past few weeks, I have had problems connecting to streaming services (Netflix, HBO et al). When I go to the TV's native Channels, I have no problem. The Dish internet troubleshooter shows I have a good internet connection. I'm wondering whether it's an issue with my internet provider or a problem with the Dish software on the Hopper Plus. Anyone else seeing this?
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I have a DISH Hopper 3 (Software H713) with Hopper Plus (Software P15403). I have not tried streaming services but I primarily watch TVB Jadeworld international package which is only available by streaming and when I have an issue, I usually have to go to a non-streaming satellite channel first before the streaming channels will work again. What software versions do you have and what is the error message if any are showing on your screen? or is that Dish downloading logo just stuck and never finishes?
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New report states 29% of vehicles being traded in are under water

It states the average amount they are under water is OVER $7,000. :eek

Personally, I tend to be the type that drives a vehicle for a lot of years....do my own oil changes and other fluid changes. Just replaced the spark plugs and a couple coils. Youtube is great for things like this.

Nearly 3 In 10 New-Car Trade-Ins Are Underwater, Edmunds Finds<!-- --> | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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I'm Easy - Keith Carridine
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FAST Channels added to DIRECTV Stream/Internet

DIRECTV Stream/Internet added Ch 4105 SportsGrid
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Now live:
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Game Show Central is now live on channel 4342
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Now live:
4101 Yahoo! Sports Network
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It only took them 41 days to announce it
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Tech News Weekly 461

Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E4fkSffYKA


Direct YouTube Link - Tech News Weekly 461
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Last reply · posted in What's Cooking?

What's For Lunch?

We have a Breakfast and Dinner thread so... :)
Continuing from the Breakfast thread, found Cornbread mix so ...
Yellow Cornbread Mix
2 Hatch Green Chiles -diced
1 Egg
2/3 cup of milk
add to greased pan
Bake for 400f 20-25 minutes(From instructions)
now to put together and try... this to go with pinto beans...
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Club sandwich and corn chowder. Iced tea.
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Chili dog bowl, water… (homemade chili)
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Leftover wanton soup and pork fried rice. Water.
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Tuna salad sandwich on toasted honey whole wheat bread with a handful of kettle chips. Water.
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