February 25, 1961. Crooked "Indiana Edition" stamp probably courtesy of a local magazine distributor. Dorothy Collins, Allen Funt, and Arthur Godfrey of CBS's "Candid Camera."

We've been praising how easy the Foxtel iQ2 is to use and how convenient it is to be able to record shows to watch when we are free, rather than watch the crap that is on.

Then suddenly last week, the iQ2 starts dying. Some scheduled recordings fail for no apparent reason. All it said was "error code 40".

When I call tech support, all I got was "oh, error 40, we need to wipe it". Wipe. As in totally clear out all the settings and recorded shows. Wow. No diagnostics and repairing it, just wipe it. When I pressed her for the meaning of "error code 40", all I got was that the harddrive might have developed faults and needs to be wiped.

Um... faults? Wiping won't fix faults! Why don't they include some tools to scan the harddrive for errors? At least you know what is going on.

That's the problem with consumer electronics these days. They are just black boxes.

I wonder if I can remove the harddrive and and fsck it or something? No chatter nor solutions on the web either...

FilBalad.com is an Egyptian Portal in Arabic language.

In 2005 FilBlalad includes sports, political, entertainment news, plus lots of other services like: classifieds, TV guide, experts answers, city guide, whether, site directory, etc...

Website Design:

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Abdel Hafez El Nomany

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CSS and HTML:

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Development:

Samia Gamal

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Media and Photos:

Mohammad Hussien

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January 10, 1976. Ron Howard and Henry Winkler of ABC's "Happy Days."

TV Guide Dec 22-28 1973

TV Guide Dec 22-28 1973

August 1, 1981. Miss Piggy of the syndicated "The Muppet Show."

July 1, 1989. Virginia Madsen of the movie "Heart of Dixie"; Michael J. Fox and Don Harvey of the movie "Casualties of War"; Tom Selleck of the movie "Hard Rain."

February 15, 1986. Angela Lansbury of CBS's "Murder, She Wrote."

August 23, 1980. Genie Francis of ABC's "General Hospital."

December 30, 1961. Cynthia Pepper of ABC's "Margie."

June 29, 1991. David Letterman of NBC's "Late Night with David Letterman"; Arsenio Hall of the syndicated "The Arsenio Hall Show"; Johnny Carson and Jay Leno of NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" (illus. by Ted Michener)

May 18, 1963. E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed of CBS's "The Defenders."

June 29, 1996. Ed Sullivan and the Beatles; George Foreman and Muhammad Ali; Richard Nixon; Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, and Lorne Greene of "Bonanza"; Anthony Geary and Genie Francis of "General Hospital."

September 21, 1974. Illus. by Bob Peak.

September 12, 1970. Writing on cover by a previous owner of this issue.

BUH-BYE: Jon Stewart's a happy camper today. Just months after The Daily

Show anchor went on CNN's Crossfire and ripped the show ‹ and cohost Tucker

Carlson ‹ to shreds, the cable news net axed Carlson and his political

slugfest. "I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp," CNN CEO

Jonathan Klein told the Associated Press. "[Carlson]'s career aspirations

and our programming needs just don't synch up. He wants to host his own

nighttime show and we don't see that in the cards here." Indeed, Carlson has

reportedly been in talks with MSNBC to fill Deborah Norville's prime-time

slot. Courtesy of TVGuide.com

September 14, 1968. Doris Day of CBS's "The Doris Day Show" (inside the I); ? (inside the A); unnamed and uncredited illustration (inside the E)

Snow White on the cover. See what's inside at the Filmic Light blog: filmic-light.blogspot.com/2013/07/1962-french-tv-guide.html

Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian model, occasional film actress and goodwill ambassador for the UN Environment Programme.

www.kanlo.info/gisele-bundchen/

January 31, 1998. Yasmine Bleeth of the NBC movie "The Lake."

August 16, 1997. Elvis Presley.

'No Selfie Pain, No Gain!' Kristen Alderson & Chad Duell of ABC's General Hospital for DREAM LOUD!

Photograph By Brad Everett Youngwww.DreamLoudOfficial.com

#KristenAlderson #ChadDuell #GeneralHospital #DreamLoudOfficial Chad Nosredla #KikiJerome #MichaelCorinthos #PortCharles

March 5, 1988. Oprah Winfrey of the syndicated "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

September 9, 1978.

February 24, 1968. Joey Bishop of ABC's "The Joey Bishop Show."

November 1, 1980. John Anderson, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter (illus. by Jim Sharpe). "PA-NY" stamp from a local magazine distributor.

November 13, 1982. Illus. by Kinuko Craft.

During The Screening For The Movie "Monsters Vs Aliens" At Gibson Amphitheatre In Los Angeles, March 22 2009.

Covers of some TV Guides in my collection.

Toronto Daily Star TV listings - June 1, 1968

March 7, 1987. Justine Bateman and Michael J. Fox of NBC's "Family Ties" (illus. by John Solie).

TV Guide April 17-23, 2005

TV Guide Dec 22-28 1973

TV Guide Dec 22-28 1973

TV Guide cover

One of the few times in history when Saturday night was THE night to stay home and watch television.

I remember the Mary Tyler Moore Show was "Must See" t.v. in our family, and the rest of the CBS lineup was strong enough that nobody cared if we were home on a Saturday night!

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