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  • Cheesy Movies, and Where to Find Them

    From Doug Elrod@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 6 13:36:25 2016
    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! ;-)

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  • From Freezer@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 6 21:55:35 2016
    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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    My name is Freezer and my anti-drug is porn. http://mst3kfreezer.livejournal.com/
    @allhailfreezer

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  • From weary flake@21:1/5 to Freezer on Wed Jan 6 18:40:03 2016
    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/B012BD3RNU/

    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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