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Closest I ever got was a f u g l y hospital gown. A real hand-me-down.

That reminds me of back in the 1980s when Miami Vice was a thing. I used to wear white pants and a jacket. I am quite neat, but it was still hard to keep them white.

Okay, I'm in. Group effort.

Gee, I hope not. Well if it was Directv, it is confined to such an odd sampling of movies that I have never actually noticed it before. And yes I do spot-check movies I have recorded, even if I don't watch them right away. TCM usually comes across clean on Directv for me. So I still think it is just those movies (on top of that I think it sounds like we saw two different things happen). Unless you actually see some sort of trend starting to develop here.

I already had the album and I knew what came next. The coffee maker is what worried me - steam engines, medieval torture devices and all. I had to get out of there.

I don't know, I didn't stay around long enough to find out!

"The answer is 42."

Now I don't think I could top that... Nice and simple thoughts on a coffeemaker. No "Internet Of Things" or "Botnets" to be seen there. Just a coffeemaker that makes good coffee. The other day I happened to be in a hi-tech appliance store and they had coffee makers that sounded like this:

I didn't see this airing. Was this on Cable by any chance? On another thought, the recent airing of Pink Nightgown had something going on that sort of matched that description, on Directv nonetheless. The whole thing was flickering throughout, sort of like a filming of a film playing. Does this sound like what you saw? If you want, I can upload a sample.

Moir Moire. This has something to do with polynomials I think. Rich would understand. (Not the glass of wine, the big frickin' thing below)

Black coffee is fine for me. I prefer coffee with real cream though. Also I'd rather have black coffee instead of coffee with "lite creamer". No sugar - real cream is sweet enough for me.

Exactly.

Did they ever find Manbearpig?

For just about any example I think of, "neo"-anything in name basically distances itself from any kind of serious continuum on an original idea. Really badly. It is an outright admission of revisionist wankery. Around here though that can also mean "Northeast Ohio", not to be confused with wankery.

I see a couple different comments online where it was scheduled to air for Dec 2008 on TCM and then retracted. One other comment indicates it has aired on PBS. Do you have a TCM logo on the bottom right on your copy? Not much info on this one.

Okay I went a bit further in my investigation. My sample movie which HBO played was filmed in 1.85:1 aspect ratio. Modern HDTV and computer monitors have an aspect ratio of 16:9 (also could be expressed as 1.78:1 to compare to theater aspect ratio), not that far off. I cropped out the top and bottom bars from the HBO airing in an editor, leaving just the movie. It came out to 1918 x 812 pixels (within a 1920 x 1080 frame). That is really close to a 2.4:1 aspect ratio (for a movie that was filmed at 1.85:1). Had this been correctly displayed, the video image at 1.85:1 aspect ratio would have been closer to 1920 x 1038 (within the same 1920 x 1080 frame). Instead, the same thing was shown distorted (not chopped off) at 1920 x 812. So that is crushing the movie vertically by about 20%. No, I wasn't imagining things.

This thread has kind of made me scratch my head, hence the lack of reply. I think anyone who needs to carry a "sippy cup" everywhere they go looks a bit strange, possibly infantile. Sip sip sip. It is a modern phenomenon. Sip sip sip. Be it coffee, tea, bottled water, etc. Sip sip sip. But probably not really tea so much since this is the US. Sip sip sip.

Must-see TV.

What are you calling for here? A double dare for them to show Garbage Pail Kids marathon?? I was a bit surprised recently when I heard ML won the talkers award. He is a bit wooden for my tastes. It's one thing for the real work he has done, but this award was for his on-air self. Nuff said.

These days they use a hex editor. It is witchcraft.

I recorded probably about 15 movies out of that weekend. Not bad, none of it it TCM stuff. One interesting thing I noticed is that everything in the HBO and HBO affiliate HD feeds was vertically squashed so that people looked just a bit "fat". Looking into it further, it seems they pad everything they show with horizontal bars, squeezing the picture to what I think might be a 1.85:1 aspect ratio (common for movie theaters). That is what I think, just because 16:9 (also expressed as 1.78:1) is a common home video aspect ratio. So if you were to shoehorn the 1.78:1 inside the 1.85:1, and then stretch it out from side to side to match, then it might distort like that. I still have to verify on an actual video editor, but that is my theory for now anyhow. Really nice that the aspect ratio of TCM's HD feed is usually exactly right. Sometimes the picture is too small, but the proportions are almost always exactly right. Combine that distorted picture with me getting over a cold and taking cold medicine, and missing a yearly Thanksgiving house party with 25 people, it is not really the best combination.

ESD-Noir - When you forget and shuffle across the living room in the Winter, your hair stands on end, and then you touch the TV set, releasing thousands of volts of electrostatic discharge into the most sensitive bits of the TV set, and it finds the shortest path to ground. It's a really dark movie.

How about Garbage Pail Kids? South Park? (back when they killed Kenny off in every episode) Proto-playground noir? How quantifiable does this need to be.

I don't attempt to provide the latest greatest info. More accurately my project lends itself to documenting past months and working with that. As a side benefit, I have found that this provides the necessary framework to locate premieres that would otherwise slip through the cracks. These last-minute switches don't affect past months for me, as I have much better data coming in for that (though after the fact). The future/current month part of it is still based on the TCM monthly website pages though. Once a month I am resolving all the currently available monthly webpages (3-5 months worth) on the TCM site (for given date on my reports) versus everything I have of TCM's broadcast history. Then following that, others come in (cmovieviewer, mr66666, etc) and look for differences between my monthly listings and the (then) current listings - i.e. late-breaking changes.