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After I installed the television (only temporarily, to get it in the right place I need the help of an electrician) I tried putting a few disks in to see how they look, and ended up watching the entire movie “Trading Places”...I only meant to look at a minute or two in order to evaluate the quality, and got stuck...:)

LOL.

This reminds me of a hilarious story from my childhood back in the 1950's. When I was about 12 (I'm 68 now) we got our first B&W TV. My mother (God bless her) was a very proper person who regarded the horror and war movies I loved to watch as pure, disgraceful mind rot and was happy to say so, loudly and often.

Then her downfall came.<[p>

One Saturday night, at about 10:30, the news ended and a grade Z movie, "The Mesa of Lost Women," about a mad scientist who'd taken over a mesa in southwest and was cross breeding women and tarantulas, came on. Mom made the fatal mistake that she'd never be allowed to forget for the remaining 40 year of her life--she watched the first minute and got hooked. She sat there transfixed, watching the rest of it with the same rapt attention you'd see in an 8 year old boy watching "Home Alone" for the first time. All the while Dad and I were laughing uproariously at the whole spectacle of this very proper woman hooked on a horror movie of the very kind she'd regularly denounced as mind rot.