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That picture doesn't really show just how tall it is. I was standing underneath it, studying the aircraft under it for some time and sort of forgot I was still underneath it - until I looked up. Due in part to no landing gear for the nose section, that and the forward section (30 feet tall) being much higher up than the rear section. Very unusual. Also notice the forward landing gear being just in front of the jet intakes. That must have required delicate landings, so as to keep its correct balance. Sort of reminds me a little of the Concorde in the back, and the windshield reminds me a bit of the Concorde's retractable heat shield which moved up over the windshield when they went into supersonic speed. https://www.heritageconcorde.com/nose-and-visor-general P.S. Didn't Randy Newman sing I Love LA? More upbeat. Hey I've always wanted to visit LA.

Here's the website for the aviation museum at Wright Patterson AFB. This website is well laid out. You can go through the museum on your computer. https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/ and here's the section with the experimental aircraft, a collection of some of the most unusual aircraft in the world: https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/R-and-D-Gallery/

Since they bring up an opioid problem in that Dayton video, here are what lethal doses of heroin and fentanyl each look like. It doesn't take much... It's a horrible problem for us as well, even in our affluent areas.

Mum is the word. I kid you not.

You mean like this? Seriously, one of the neatest things is their experimental aircraft museum on the base.

Thanks for that. I'm in NE OH, but have visited Wright-Patterson different times, as I know someone who works there. Haven't been anywhere near the city though.

Just taking a peek at some of the newer posts here out of morbid curiosity. It is indeed backwards how far more people post anything intelligent here than on their Facebook or Twitter, and then this gets ignored but all by a gatekeeper or two. I checked the public postings on these outside "social media" services, without registering, back when this forum was down. They were empty. A grand total of maybe 4 people posted anything that day, asking why the forum was down. The rest was just empty-minded posting on upcoming airings. No real dialog whatsoever. I'm not seeing how that could be the future, anymore than this forum is. They are actually quite inferior. Yet they run this forum like a liability and sweep it under the rug, and at the same time run their Facebook and Twitter accounts like some sort of assets. Either they delete stuff as fast as people are posting, or else there is no conversation that can be publicly seen on those services. Disclaimer: Not a luddite, just not a fan of "social media". I saw other people with accounts and fake friends on MySpace about ten or fifteen years ago and thought that was just about the stupidest thing I had ever seen, robbing people of precious brain cells and real social interaction. Now Facebook and Twitter have taken its place, like MySpace on steroids. Why bother "wiretapping" or data-mining people when so many voluntarily put all their life out there for officials or employers to see. Fools. Anyhow just my thoughts on the matter. Thanks for reading.

Yup. This is the only one of these I will be verifying tonight. I pulled up the source files. They did in fact play it March 2018 (2018-03). Then it was scheduled 2018-10 and dropped. It is also scheduled to be played again 2019-03. I also pulled up the main output table, the one I post online, and it agrees. There perhaps may in fact be some things not quite as expected in life, "Omigod! TCM is sooo hard to get to these days!", but I don't think this is one of them.

Might have been. I'd have to go through the older forum posts, as my project doesn't track dropped movies.

It was one of the silent movies. Off the top of my head I believe a premiere, a premiere that hasn't happened yet a few times in a row.

It's more practical for cable to carry subchannels, as each area has its own unique infrastructure. Satellite (both Directv and Dish) in the US has two types of beams: Spot and Conus (continental US). TCM would be a Conus beam (a single wide beam - covering the whole country), and local TV channels repeated by satellite would be Spot beams (narrow beams - just covering regional areas - a few states on average or a handful at the most). Since the spot beams are able to cover regional areas, the local channels are programmed into your subscription, and are received from the satellite, on a periodic transmission which everybody receives. In order to receive channels from the next major city or state over instead (but within the same spot beam), one would need to "move", or change the details of their subscription. Some people actually do this so they can get local sports from other major nearby cities. The reason satellite (in particular with Directv - as I am familiar with) doesn't repeat the subchannels, is because there aren't enough transponders on the satellite to handle it, with all the different localized spot beams - one set of subchannels for each metropolitan area in the country multiples to a big number. They could fix this though if they wanted by simply broadcasting only one set of all the more common subchannels (including all the channels people talk about here like METV) using just a single set of conus beams for the whole country. Make it a subchannel add-on package for $1/mo if that screws up their localized advertising that much.

That's nothing. There are some of us who have waited for a certain movie to air, those of you know who you are, and only during the last HOUR OR TWO it is changed on the online schedule.

Meh. I'd let sleeping dogs lie. That is, if he is happy with his cable service on a technical level. Directv is great, but depending on locale the rain fade may be a potential downgrade. For me it was a massive upgrade, on a technical level. My local cable really sucked. Quality of service of both cable and satellite can vary wildly for either. Location (for satellite), or infrastructure expansion and maintainence (for cable).

Here's a bit on Directv's add-on package which includes MGMHD (not that this would help you in any way). Oddly enough it is a bit difficult to find on Directv's own website, which seems to be targeted towards those with attention deficit disorder or short attention spans, rather than providing information. In any case, Directv has provided it at an additional cost for some time, which may clue us in a bit as to why Comcast cancelled it. https://www.satellite-reviews.net/direct-tv/hd-extra-pack Here is Directv's page on it. https://www.directv.com/premiums/moviesextrapack And finally I did find their pricing, at the bottom of this page, though not exactly specific to this package: https://www.usdirect.com/channels/premium-channels It should really be listed somewhere on this page: https://www.usdirect.com/packages I still don't know what it actually costs today. At the start, it was $5/mo. - and that was...back when? nice...

Crap...

Here on my end I am seeing the feeds, both on my Directv system's on-screen guide, and on Schedules Direct's feed. SD gets its info directly from Gracenotes/Tribune Media, large-scale schedule provider to cable services and other vendors. (SD is a consumer-level pipeline from Gracenotes/Tribune Media.) I also just checked SD for our local cable provider, Spectrum (no longer a property of Time Warner), and MGMHD is still there too. Hopefully just a glitch or a mistake.

This is kind of a stupid case to expose and highlight the censorship problem going on with the tech giants right now, but if so, so be it. Every little bit helps.

Agree with fxreyman here. If you remember, I also said something when you posted a thread on Irish American programming. I'm not a fan of themed programming in general. All too often it leads to corny derivatives, but I know I am in the minority here (I usually am, but that means nothing to me). There are many more here who like to chase down themes. My ideal programming is when the themed programming doesn't jump off the screen and hit me in the head, but there seems to be a good sense of random distribution between subject matter, studios, genres, and time periods. Miraculously it seems there are times they can also pull that off at a different level, in spite of the themed programming. I have a preference for pre-codes, WWII, and early sixties, but I don't like to see them burn through all the good material from that in a short period of time either.

I'll bet nobody's even thought of posting this one yet.

"Cozy up to the C."

Yes. There was also a movie by the same name, which is actually what they listed in their schedules (complete with a bunch of no-name actors), once a year from 1999 through 2002. Then also once again in 2006. (I pulled them up just now and looked) Since you bring this up, I do believe that may have been a mistake on their part for every single instance, as they also used a two-part time slot each time, which back then they reserved only for the longest movies or features (such as Ben Hur 1959), and this movie with no-name actors was only a 1:40 movie (fairly typical length, no need to split in half on the schedule as per their earlier protocol). So I'm going to go against my rules here as the evidence suggests their listing was actually wrong (several times in a row), and say it looks like they indeed did play the PBS documentary several times: once a year from 1999 through 2002, then once again in 2006. I'll have to update my project to reflect this.

This. First and foremost. If you like it, save it to your computer. There have definitely been times I saw a pic I liked and later wished I had saved it. Also the Print Screen/screen capture capabilities of your computer can come in handy. This is useful for certain sites which put an image into a web page using unconventional means, sometimes as a "background" element or sometimes porting it through some unnecessary viewer, as a deterrent to image harvesting - their links cannot be easily selected.

That works too, as long as the hosting site allows for hot-linking their images. If not, you will get an error message in your post instead of a hot-linked image. (It is essentially using their server bandwidth for purposes other than what some of them intended.) Also hot-linked images are subject to removal, as many websites change their content on a regular basis. So if they remove it from their site or change the location ever so slightly, that breaks the image in your post. Your mileage may vary.

Obviously I have a website which I use to host my stuff (some of it for the TCM site, and some of it O/T for other uses), but out of morbid curiosity I did play around with this forum's image storage capabilities a while back during their upgrade. It's a given that the space is limited, but here's the kicker: you first need to edit and delete each instance from each post where you used the images. (How you get to those posts is the part I don't remember off the top of my head.) Then after that they are either gone, or you can then delete them from the list. I would suggest using a free image hosting service, like Hamradio says. Only problem here is any one of them might stop free service and start charging at any time - ala Photo Bucket, or was that Bit Bucket. I don't remember. Funny how quickly they became irrelevant after they pulled that.

As per "TCM Underground" proclivities, there is enough material here to build a late-night Gordon Ramsey "TCM Hot Sauce Club" commercial. It is all there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9DyHthJ6LA