Movie Collector OH

Yeah, it's kind of cool. It addresses a few problems at once, including leaving an evidence trail when people change thread titles.

Filmed nearby. For at least a generation afterwards, there was a restaurant of the same name located in the historic town of Chagrin Falls.

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Does "mailchimp" distribute it by any chance? (the few "Now Playing" emails that i have seen posted on here were)

I would say "message board" and "discussion forum" are synonymous. (Preceded by services such as Usenet and Internet BBS.) All use a threaded format, where all the threads are permanently accessible through top-level topical index pages. Each forum is hosted on its own decentralized stand-alone storage and retrieval system (decentralized in the sense that they usually have their own login credentials, unique to that forum), and is uniformly accessible to search engines and to the general public. In comparison, centralized services (usually branded by social media companies as "social media"), typically don't have index pages and threads, but rather have inline replies to individual topics (the owner's post, a news story, a blog post, a Facebook entry, etc). People can reply to each other, but they are still inline replies to a single post , not threaded topical conversations of their own. If that parent post should get removed, then all the attached replies usually disappear or become inaccessible. That is NOT a forum, just an area for replies. With these social media formats it seems as if people are gradually being conditioned away from having real long-term conversations online, and towards just remarking on each other's remarks in the short term. An exact definition for "Chat Room" would be a bit more fuzzy. Overall I see it as a distant cousin of the ephemeral "Instant Messenger" types of programs which preceded cell phone texting, though nowadays is all recorded. A recent example of this can be seen on certain YT or Periscope videos which get streamed live and have an audience watching in real time, where there is a live "streaming chat" off to the side of the video as well. These replies may be viewers asking the host questions, but usually it is just trivial stuff like viewers trying to get a reaction out of the host. These are FIFO and scroll off the screen as soon as more replies are posted. In some cases they are stored with the video on the video service and one can "replay" the chats just by replaying the video. They are stored on the service as time-encoded metadata, like subtitles. If you are clever enough to figure out how to download the video directly from the service, the streaming chat does not follow as it isn't part of the video. I'm not really a proponent of watching "streaming chats" and I hope TCM never adopts it, but on the current trajectory it's only a matter of time. Uh-oh, I hope my prediction isn't mistaken as a suggestion...

Maybe a question for someone who has been around here on the boards longer than me. dianedebuda?? Any recollection of them ever promoting this forum on the TV network?

Yeah, these cutesy little last minute things never seem to end up well, do they. The "Just In Time" supply-chain-management thingy didn't come through, once again, this time with the scheduling. Even on their own platform. What were they expecting. Oh wait, never mind. People will be able to watch it on a cell phone soon enough though.

Hey, I remember you... 46 posts since 2005, at least you are with us in mind and spirit. Don't be a stranger. 😄 Maybe TCM can increase my counter to about half a million posts as a symbolic "barter" for the database work. (JK)

^^^^^ This ^^^^ That and a proper forum like this is still the only way to have a coherent topical public conversation, one which can be easily be revisited or followed later on by new pairs of eyes. Or as is often in my case, a better rested pair of eyes. The bigger social media sites are not so good for coherent topical conversation, as much as they are for advertising and random people making off the cuff remarks, which I have little or no use for myself. There is no comparison whatsoever, and one is not a "replacement" for the other. Those that proceed down this path in "bright new shiny things" and "modernization" will just have to do without.

Agreed.

It's such a low bandwidth though that either you or I could probably pay for it out of our own pocket. Oops, did I just say that?

No, it isn't going anywhere. The talking heads are trying to be "hip" is all. The only other message boards I am on are related to professional industry. They all have strict No Politics policies. A few of them don't allow their professional members to give advice to DIY'ers. So it is mostly just professionals giving high-level advice to other professionals. They are not and haven't gone anywhere. Not consumer product-oriented or movie related though. IMDB took down its message board because they didn't have the stomach to administrate their board with wide strokes, as they should have. P.S. You should already know this, but they "are" on a third party system with this message board.

No mention of Just Imagine (1930). A travesty! What is this world coming to ??!

Try my other link: https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched.htm

I doubt he/she had any idea what you were talking about. Seriously. It was just a software changeout by some clueless newbies. Not the individual(s) who had the skill and knowledge to design the previous website.

Rereading my post, it looks as if I was laying out a qualifying statement or premise, and then my further thoughts were interrupted. One overall thought I had, and that I was really using this opportunity to point out to others, was along the lines of "if it is possible, assume it is being done". Now there might not be a conventional reason to look at ratings that since it isn't commercial based, but they might still want a bit of positive feedback. IMO I suspect this could be related to the reason why it hasn't been offered as a stand-alone service yet. That is about where my thoughts trailed off. In addition, to rely on streaming telemetry from their own digital services and Directv, the actual distribution means which they "do" have control over, will only get them a small part of the answer, but nevertheless an even geographic distribution (not just the major localized markets as you point out - though there could be some of that too).

Another early look... https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched.htm

IMDB benefits from the combined intelligence of their entire (participating) community around the globe. I don't know if we can say that about AFI.

Either that or spin off a "My Generation" type of movie channel, independent of the "TCM" brand, without commercials. Plenty of stuff to go around. Look at everything they HAVEN'T been showing recently.

Cable TV, definitely. Cable is a two-way system and along with Switched Digital Video, the act of just watching cable TV involves two-way communication between your provider box and their cable plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_video Cell phone/tablet: Yes. And how... Anything connects to the Internet, Roku, Myku, Yurku - including "smart TVs", even if you are just viewing local TV, as long as it has a way to "phone home" over your Internet connection, even though you may not intend to use it as such for the purpose of telemetry. Everybody either lies about what they do with your data or buries it in fine print. "Dumb TV" or "smart TV" (without Internet access), no. They wouldn't have any way to do this. Satellite TV, no. At that level it is only a one-way device. Case-in-point with Directv: I have found all updates and receiver license validation is performed one-way. (the software updates are periodically broadcast to everyone, and the valid licenses (receiver #/sim card pair) are also periodically broadcast to everyone. It is up to your satellite receiver to download the updates and also allow or deny you service based on your receiver/sim card pair matching the pair they have in their system and the account being in good standing. Caveat: on Directv there is the option to connect to the Internet for extra features beyond live satellite. Leave that unplugged/disconnected and you will be good to go as far as one-way communications is concerned.

Which will inevitably direct you to IMDB. So "IMDB for genre". Avoid the Google-bomb.

Hi, You are welcome. That is coming from an "old" API data source which predated the new schedule, hence I call it my "old feed" schedule, as opposed to my "new feed" schedule, which uses the same exact data source that the new TCM website uses. These originate in JSON data source format and cannot really be viewed with a web browser, hence the web browser-friendly versions I have come up with: Big Big Schedule - old feed Big Big Schedule - new feed (current/development) How long this "old feed" may continue to be updated is anyone's guess at this point. Right now we are in what I would call a gray area. I'm not 100% sure it is past the data that was originally available before the old schedule website was shut down. If and when I see data for Feb come up, then I would be more confident it is actually still receiving updates and active. On top of that, it continues to receive occasional updates to the existing months, so that's why I haven't given up on it altogether. Some things are different about the "old feed" than the old schedule too BTW, it is not an exact replica of the format for the old schedule, but it might as well have been used to make it. There were some other additions and niceities on top of that (human changes) that made it into the old schedule, but not that major. It seems a bit disjointed that they might continue on with the themes but not publish them in the "new feed" and hence their new official schedule.

You and many others. Unfortunately you must pay for all their other crap just to get TCM.

Not that it matters, the underbite category has been hideously underrepresented.

A non-sequitur?