Entertainment Frozen In Time
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So apparently putting VHS tapes in the freezer helps them last longer. Thank you Internet! – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Fixer Dogmeat says, “Well, there seem to be quite a few movies from which to choose. We have: Cool Runnings, The Man from Snowy River, Be Cool, Chill Factor, Cold Mountain, Snow Dogs, Deep Blue Sea with L.L. Cool J, and The Big Chill. *shiver* Is there a draft somewhere? I am freezing! While you’re trying to decide on which title we will watch, let me get the fire going and grab a blanket.”
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This model has a known history of overheating.
It makes perfect sense. It’s a redneck entertainment
center in a batchelor pad.
probably can’t afford the fee to properly dispose of the dead fridge. or maybe a brilliant recycling concept. neither? both? a win either way.
“Well, there seem to be quite a few movies from which to choose. We have: Cool Runnings, The Man from Snowy River, Be Cool, Chill Factor, Cold Mountain, Snow Dogs, Deep Blue Sea with L.L. Cool J, and The Big Chill. *shiver* Is there a draft somewhere? I am freezing! While you’re trying to decide on which title we will watch, let me get the fire going and grab a blanket.”
“Oh! There are even more titles over here on the mantel: Hellboy, Mrs. Doubtfire…”
Some Like It Hot, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof… can’t figure out where to store that old Disney favorite, though, Hot Lead and Cold Feet…
… Alfred just adores the one on the lower left, 3rd from right. Fritz the Cat.
Alfred seems to have the least discriminating tastes of any butler I’ve ever known, at least when it comes to felines. Or anyway, according to you, waldo, he can’t seem to pass too many of them up. Can’t someone at the batcave get the poor old guy deprogrammed? It’s the end of the line when Fritz turns you on, man.
Holy Crap! You actually listened to the Red Green show! WOW!
First thing I thought of was the red and green desk! You beat me to it.
Quondam omni flunkus moritati!
Sorry, but I am so making one of those for the basement next time I run across an old Fridge’ (sic).
Great idea, all they need to do to make it look even classier is to put woodpanel style contact paper/shelf liner all over the outside. I love this idea for an entertainment center!
one word….. tv-dinner
Two words. No hypen. Thank you for playing our game.
Ideal when the TV licence guy knocks on your door for having no licence, who would think of looking in the freezer for the TV? saves a £1000 fine for not having one and £142.50 a year the licence would cost!!!
TV license fee?
I guess the Queen needs to get her paycheck somewhere.
Yup, minute he mentioned it, I bet he was in jolly old England or thereabouts. Not sure where else they do that–it was to get around the problem of charging for the service without a way to monitor who’s got what.
actually the tv license fee is to pay for the bbc, rather than fund their costs through advertising they charge it directly to the viewers like a subscription fee. Alot of people argue that it’s alot like thought crime as you could argue “what if i don’t watch the bbc i should’nt have to pay for it” yea well you might, you are capable of doing so after all and just not telling anybody. Hence why it is the tv licensing fee and not the bbc subscription fee.
there are easier ways to get around it, the elderly or disabled don’t have to pay for it and it’s cheaper if you live in shared housing (apartment blocks or flats as they call them here).
Is that per TV set? I knew of such a thing, but not how much it was.
Per household, thankfully. It used to be for all receiving equipment (much like having a Ham radio license or whatever) but is now just TVs. Unless you’re over 75, or legally blind, etc.
I don’t mind. A premium cable or satellite package costs easily as much, and I’ve found that I can easily satisfy 95% of my viewing and listening needs with just the Beeb alone now we have iPlayer (occasionally straying to commercial services on these explicit occasions: at my grandmother’s (over 75!) when we can’t agree on something to watch – we default to Friends on E4 or whatever we can find on the UKTV channels (Dave, Yesterday, etc); and getting ready for a rare saturday night on the town – none of the bbc stuff i can pick up on the bathroom radio is my scene at that point in the week). They produce a vast array of good quality television and radio programs, all available at no extra charge assuming a licensed TV with digital receiver, and a radio. What there is worth listening to on Radio 6 or 7 can be got with a digital radio – or the internet (itself largely a given), which also grants access to the VoD and RoD services that seriously have more content in any one week than a sane person can consume.
Whilst the majority of free to air commercial programming is suffering badly from decreasing advertising revenues being stretched increasingly thin (far too much channel proliferation, relatively static total available audience for the ads) – endless naff drama on ITV, endless new series of Big Brother, stupid gameshows, celebrity exposes and shock medical shows, and never ending repeats of certain domestic mainstays and well-worn (though, admittedly, quite good the first 5 or 6 times) US imports alongside newer, rather crap up-to-date ones. And all the soap operas of course… and don’t lets even get started on commercial radio, which is just as bad as in the states. The only one worth attention is Kerrang, and that wears thin after about four hours; the typical pop channels manage about 30 minutes on the trot before getting annoying.
These days, it’s either paid-subscription commercial channels (Sky, cable) or auntie BBC that actually have any kind of spending power to make and buy-in decent shows. But I’ve seen my dad’s reasonably comprehensive Sky package, and most of the real value in that are the movie channels… {*motions towards a cabinet full of DVDs which are only half watched*} …there’s still, depressingly, an awful lot of the same cheap bandwagonage, repeats, and just plain bad stuff, just this time you’re paying for the privelege. Having one of their PVR boxes does soften the blow somewhat though – you can use it, like the iPlayer, to pick and choose the good stuff AND zap thru the ads.
So even if it was made an optional thing (and you’d be given a decoder card/usb dongle to unlock the bbc content), I think I’d rather pay the £12 or so equivalent per month, vs the minimum of about £15 it would require to get any kind of meaningful satellite package.
Yes, I know ITV and C4 also have VoD services (and sky?), and I’m not in any way saying everything (or even a majority of) the bbc’s content is good. But they have a much higher score. There’s not a lot on ITV or C4 that grabs me when I browse their VoD sites, except maybe old episodes of UFO (repeats, again). Annoyingly, the one commercial channel I’d like to use on-demand is C5. Which hasn’t got a replay site.
It’s a different way of doing things, but it’s not necessarily worse. The minimum charge is higher, that’s a given. But if I only had a radio or a computer, I’d still get an awful lot of the value I currently do without having to pay a bean. What I wonder about is the quality of free to air services in the USA and elsewhere, particularly now digital is more widespread. What are the programs like, if you’re not on a subscription package that probably costs at least as much? How do they pay for themselves? Last time I was in Spain, the channels seemed to largely pay for their keep by premium-rate tarot phone chat in the off hours. Occasionally topless. Hmm. Much like the wierd after-hours call-in gambling shows that were briefly on our commercial channels before being shut down for fraud and general dodginess.
But on the whole, don’t know. Would bear investigation.
Uh, thanks. Note to self: do not inquire about the TV laws in other countries.
Personally, I think that was a novel explanation! Or is it an explanation befitting a novel? My eyes are still a little crossed from reading it.
You read it all?? I’m just on my way to the library to look for Cliffs Notes.
Okay…you got me. A more accurate final statement would have been: “I now have carpal tunnel syndrome from scrolling past it with my mouse wheel.”
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First comment is free (but these foolish kids don’t know how easy it is to get addicted).
If you want Cliff’s notes watch reruns of Cheers.
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We have to pay a TV tax in France. “Redevance audiovisuel” or some crap like that. If you don’t pay, and you are a likely category of TV owners (young people and families for one) they’ll come and check up on you, check for the flickering lights in your living room or any window, come up to the door and listen to hear if you are watching the nightly news program. Although I have trouble believing that some gov’t person would be working past 5 or 6 pm.
They’ve cut commercials after 8pm on the national channels too. It’s only going to cost us taxpayers more. But I’m not going to complain, because not having 5 minutes of commercials every 10 minutes of programming like in the US is SOOOOOO worth it! Shows here only have one commercial break, in general. I will not watch tv in the US anymore when I’m home!
My thoughts exactly.
Then. . when do you get up to use the bathroom?
Srsly, your signal has to be paid for one way or another. Maybe its just me, but as a philosophical bias I prefer to pay via the free market rather than government coercion.
Wow! Thanks for explaining that. I have tried to get my UK friends to explain it to me on one of my boards, but could never quite understand it. They talk about Big Brother a LOT, and since I’m not getting a free signal now (and I refuse to pay for satellite or cable at this time), I don’t see what all the fuss is about. (although not being a fan of reality tv, I probably still wouldn’t get it.) You’re right though. I haven’t had a tv signal for almost 4 years now and I don’t miss the commercials one bit!
Glad we could get you two together.
A thousand years from now, mankind will dig up this strange arrangement of entertainment and have no clue as to how cool it was.
I’ve seen this done with a retro fridge and thought it was awesome. What a disappointment to open this newer model in someone’s living room, though, and finding no beer.
Picky, picky, picky. There are pictures of alcohol on the freezer door…
Thanks, LGB!
They were just confused. They forgot the difference between beer commercials in the fridge and a beer keg in the fridge…
Yup, a guy I used to work with had this same setup with a 1950s-era fridge. It was really slick, and occasionally I’ll think about stealing the idea. Hard to find vintage fridges that aren’t rusted to shit anymore though.
Ms. Fix-It, it’s nothing personal but you really are not funny, so stop pushing it and ruining the site for us.
So bored should troll on elsewhere, please.
Max Headroom’s cryo storage.
How’d this pic of my first apartment get on the ‘net? Is nothing sacred?
Uh oh. Guess we shouldn’t tell you about the ones that someone sent to hawtness.
I’ve been digging those actually.
I thought my girlfriend would like my new entertainment center. Instead, she gave it the cold shoulder. I hope she will warm up to the idea, but I am not very optimistic.
Pork shoulder, or beef?
On second thought, sounds much more like beef.
wonder i he would’ve liked the rump better?
Surprisingly, this kludge has little to do with a television, but more about being able to hide a working refrigerator in a dorm room.
- Where’s the remote control?
- In the butter compartment!
Why yes….I think it is!
Unfortunately, I just found the milk under the couch cushions.
cold war documentaries!
Lettuce entertain you.
Jury rules that as too corny. Guilty as chard. But potato promises a peel, as any jury here was likely rigged.
Okay, I got nothin’, but that’s never stopped me before…
Har har
Keeps VHS tapes longer? Just how long do you want them to last? I’ve some from the early 80s that are still just fine…
Lmao I used to keep stuff in a mini fridge but I got rid of it a while ago…and the only VHS I ever watch anymore is Happy Gilmore lol
TV, it’s what’s for supper.
I did this with my last apartment – they provided a fridge, but I moved in with a newer one. So the apt’s fridge (which I swear was that exact model) got moved into my room to be an entertainment center. It rather limits the size of your TV though. (I also wonder what the maintenance guys thought when they came in. As I recall we had to remove the bedroom door from its hinges to get it in)
and when it’s playing a video I don’t wanna see I just shut the door …
And you thought that a fridge in the living room was stupid!
someone mentioned tv-licencing.. we have that too in Finland.. it pays for about 5 channels, so those wont stuff 5 minutes of commercials per 5 minutes of actual shows. other about 10 of our “free” channels do just that.
but my first tough about that picture was about some religious groups, which wont allow television.. that would suit just fine with their ideologies, as it is common to find aerial and electrical connections inside wardrobes etc.. who else would mastermind something that stupid, if it wasn’t for obfuscating your saintly relatives
Only the supercool titles make it to the fridge. Everything else is stored in the old dishwasher.
Based on the semi-circular track worn into the purple carpet, it looks like he’s really getting some use out of that entertainment center. Either that or he keeps checking to see if the light stays on when he closes the door.
But (!) is clean, note the zoris at left end of track.
I do rather like the idea, but (!!) current frig is still being used to keep ice cream cold. However, when i finally buy a more EnergyStar model, now I know what to do with the one being replaced.
Gives a new meaning to “television consumers”.
I am so in love with the guy who did this. Where is he and would he marry me?
Tivo for cheap people.
fridge freezers, very useful appliances in the modern home …
Maybe it’s an anti-burglary device, as long as the burglar doesn’t get thirsty and hunt for a beer!
Talk about getting your money’s worth til the very end! Something a bachelor would do- a wife would have to have a GREAT sense of humor to keep this in the
house!
Actually not a bad idea, provided the television fits. And a tv that size would be like what, $20 nowadays? get a $30 dvd player at target and boom- total entertainment set. Redneck, but unique and recycled at the same time. store tapes in the fridge door and dvds in the freezer door, then hook up stereo speakers in the freezer. It’s gootta work, obviously someone’s done it before.