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Here's some stuff from the 80s I don't think TCM has played. It was all on videocassette for rental back in the year 1983. I'm not hoping or expecting in any way that they show much, if any, of this. It is just stuff I picked from a longer list to showcase what is or once was out there, for anyone that might care. Or not. Altered States (1980) An American Werewolf in London (1981) American Nightmare (1983) Any Which Way You Can (1980) Author! Author! (1982) Battletruck (1982) Breaking Glass (1980) The Border (1982) Breakout (1975) Body Heat (1981) Bustin' Loose (1981) Carbon Copy (1981) Cat People (1982) Class Reunion (1982) Continental Divide (1981) Creepshow (1982) Dark Star (1974) Doctor Detroit (1983) The Entity (1982) Evilspeak (1981) Eye of the Needle (1981) The Final Conflict (1981) Firefox (1982) Ghost Story (1981) Good Guys Wear Black (1978) Graduation Day (1981) The Groove Tube (1974) Happy Birthday to Me (1981) High Road to China (1983) Homework (1982) I, the Jury (1982) Inside Moves (1980) It Came from Hollywood (1982) Jane Fonda's Workout (1982) Jenny (1970) Kiss Me Goodbye (1982) Love at First Bite (1979) Lovesick (1983) Lenny Bruce Without Tears (1972) Magic (1978) Mausoleum (1983) Meatballs (1979) Megaforce (1982) The Mirror Crack'd (1980) The Missionary (1982) Moonraker (1979) My Bodyguard (1980) Neighbors (1981) Nice Dreams (1981) Night Shift (1982) 9 to 5 (1980) An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) Outland (1981) Paradise (1982) Partners (1982) Paternity (1981) Piranha (1978) Private Lessons (1981) The Prize Fighter (1979) Querelle (1982) Sharky's Machine (1981) Six Pack (1982) Six Weeks (1982) Sphinx (1981) The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Still Smokin (1983) Stripes (1981) The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) Taps (1981) Tattoo (1981) Tex (1982) The Thing (1982) Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982) The Toy (1982) Tunnel Vision (1976) Visiting Hours (1982) Vice Squad (1982) Young Doctors in Love (1982) Xtro (1982) Zapped! (1982) Zombie (1979)

Updates to my project are uploaded. Premieres http://moviecollector.us/reports/Future_Premieres.htm Project page http://moviecollector.us/reports.htm This was a small update, only three months (Aug, Sept, Oct), usually I do four or sometimes even five at a time. If they come out with new months before...let's say the middle of the month...then I "may" retroactively apply those (in other words just add the new months, not rework any existing).

Short answer: end-to-end encryption costs extra Somewhat longer answer: Providing end to end encryption makes sense for protection of people's personal details. Such as online banking or shopping. Since this is annonymous (for the most part) and doesn't involve the exchange of money... My answer: This is a movie forum, where occasional movie talk is interspersed among revelers busting one gut-load of political diarrhea after another. Would you pay good money to encrypt it?

RIP. I had to look it up. Not the same guy as Brian Doyle-Murray, who came to mind (still alive). [watermelon-eating Kamp Komfort clerk from Nation Lampoon's Vacation, was also in Caddyshack]

Wow. I just watched one of his stories on TCM, by now I must have most of the ones they have shown. Too bad he had to go through what he did. Rest in peace.

Oh wait, I take that back. There is a big cinema multiplex across town that I particularly try to avoid. Several years ago after a movie, there was a large unkept blonde woman who pulled up to my parked vehicle and stole one of my hubcaps (actually a plastic wheel cover). She just nonchalently stopped her car, got out, took it, and left. One of my friends saw her leaving with it, then we noticed I was missing a hubcap moments later. Life must be hard for her. Ten minutes on the Internet and I had a pack of four or five replacements on the way for less than the price of a couple movie tickets. Same theater megaplex parking lot on a different occasion, a big white vehicle pulled up to my parked car, and the door was swung open hard enough to put a small to medium sized dent in my door. Also it left behind some flakes of white paint (that's how I know it was large and white). Interesting thing is, this all happened when I was standing outside the theater by the entry, waiting for a friend to arrive. This happened in the time span of about 5 or 10 minutes as I was waiting. I didn't see it because it was blocked from my view. I then walked back to my car to get something, and that is when I noticed it. We walked around the parking lot looking for a large white vehicle with a damaged driver or passenger door, and some flakes of paint from my car. Nothing. Hit and run, must have gotten scared and run home to mommy. So at least one redeeming quality for this megaplex theater is that there is a Home Depot about 400 feet away. Now I often shop at the Home Depot locations closer to me, it is one of my favorite stores. Nothing ever happens to my vehicles in their parking lots. Must have something to do with pride of ownership and respect for personal property that Home Depot customers have in common. They are mostly either hard-working tradesmen or home owners that like to fix things up. The one next to that theater can't be any different. I think I will try parking over at that Home Depot instead and then walk over to the megaplex theater next time (that is, "if" there is a next time). Finally there is a story I heard from yet another friend, regarding the same megaplex theater. It made the local papers at the time. There was a group of thieves who showed up in the parking lot one night and stole the catalytic convertors from a number of different cars, vans, and trucks for their scrap value in titanium. They each apparently showed up with a creeper and Sawzall, and slid underneath different vehicles and cut off the catalytic convertors. At show break, when a number of people left the theater, it reportedly sounded like a Harley convention with everyone's mufflers disconnected at the same time.

Other than being underwhelmed by the movie and wishing I was in my own cozy surroundings or out socializing instead? No. But this seems to happen a lot with current offerings, so I basically just don't bother.

Here are some Sherlock Holmes movies or features in my data that have aired or been scheduled to air at some point or another on TCM: The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) Sherlock Holmes (1916) Sherlock Holmes (1922) Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour (1931) [The Sleeping Cardinal (1931)] Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill (1946) [Dressed to Kill (1946)] Sherlock Holmes in Terror by Night (1946) [Terror by Night (1946)] Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) More details here: (use CTRL + F keyboard shortcut in browser to search this web page) http://moviecollector.us/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm

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As far as TCM US, I have a fairly comprehensive timeline of TCM's US scheduling, with some parts missing near the beginning. More here at bottom of this page: http://moviecollector.us/reports.htm I don't see it anywhere in my data. I did see there are rights issues. So I am not saying I am certain they never played it - just less likely. P.S. The unusual TCM screen bug might be a telltale clue. Only challenge is to find anything else out there that matches it or explains it.

I'm not so sure of that. For that era I'd likely give it a three-way tie, including Nitrateville. Though everyone on this board and over there at least looks at IMDB, in spite of all its little errors.

Probably more traffic on IMDB?

A quick text search of my own report shows these: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) That is about it.

I think I'm going to go with "DC". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Darn_Cat!

Likewise. I too didn't/don't think that of anyone they put on air. I like their current roster. One of those agree to disagree topics I suppose.

Alicia Malone comes to mind here for me. Really, no kidding.

LOL I couldn't care less about Linus' physique. Well actually I take that back. I wish him the best of health and many more productive years to come. It is good to see he exercises.

Who's paying, and why?

TCM is "broadcast" over Cable TV and Satellite (I put that in quotes and put it lightly because cable actually "is" streamed - i.e. multicast since it went digital, but just over a private network. For the sake maintaining terminology, I use the word "broadcast" here). On these broadcast mediums it is 1080i, it says so on their Wikipedia page and I can confirm from watching the commercials and the hosts on an HD TV. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Classic_Movies The movies on the other hand aren't necessarily reflective of what goes on these days. Rather than you seeing what technology we have now, you are seeing what was conveniently available at the time when the film was scanned in to digital format using the telecine machines. Since DVDs go back to the 1990s, much of that could have potentially happened back in that era, around 20 years ago. Before HD, before Blu-ray, etc. We are talking about the era that was the first generation of DVDs. So today TCM is broadcast at 1080i (whether or not the source material originally was scanned in at 1080i). From there it is also split off and downconverted to 480i to accomodate SD carriage needs (for the time being). So you have these two scenarios for HD: SD source >> upconverted to HD format (prepared ahead of time) >> sent for broadcast HD source >> sent for broadcast Meanwhile the SD feed goes something more like this: SD source >> upconverted to HD (same exact digital file as above) >> downconverted to SD (single-pass hardware) >> sent to broadcast HD source >> downconverted to SD (single-pass hardware) >> sent to broadcast So the HD feed has less processing, and I would much rather see less processing. Hardware downsizing/scaling has the advantage that it can be used in real time, but the results aren't ideal. That is just for broadcast TV. If you are talking about "streaming", as in video received in some way other than over-the-air, cable or satellite, then disregard.

Here's a link to a story about Torvalds' work space, in particular it references his "Zombie shuffling" desk. https://www.businessinsider.com/a-peek-at-linus-torvalds-little-desk-2015-2?r=UK&IR=T It says he keeps at a pace of 1 MPH - it seems he has something like one of these:

Just posting to say I have uploaded my latest premieres now: http://moviecollector.us/reports/Future_Premieres.htm as well as overall project updates: http://www.moviecollector.us/reports.htm

That's something, that the recording studio was still open. Back at you on the wine. Ok just for you here is a giant diagram of all the known desktop Linux distros, as found on Wikipedia. In true Wikipedia fashion, it is mostly just academic in nature and probably the only time anyone has ever compiled such a list. They had it in SVG format, a vector graphics format. This behaved a bit sluggish for me, so I converted it to a more standard JPG image. This link goes to the full-sized image. You might want to save it first, and open it in a picture viewer, just so you can zoom in and actually read it. http://moviecollector.us/pics_to_hotlink_on_TCM/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.jpg I also put up a reduced version, just for this thumbnail. Almost the entire top half is the Debian tree of Linux distros. That includes the Ubuntu tree (just to the right, within the Debian tree), and then eventually Linux Mint. Linux Mint has two versions, the main version that is built from Ubuntu, and also Linux Mint Debian Edition which is built directly from Debian (for advanced users and more specific use-cases). Below that are some other trees, including Slackware, Red Hat, and Arch (from which Manjaro is built). Then you see some straight lines, distros not related to any others. These are mostly for specific purposes. Puppy Linux is in there. Finally at the very bottom is a small group of specialty Android distros intended for desktop use. I don't think I see Astra Linux in there. That is the Debian-based distro built specifically for the Russian military and intelligence agencies, and now the rest of the Russian govt is/will be replacing all their Windows desktops with. I would too. Not shown are various Linux-based applications NOT intended for desktop computer or server use, as these tend to be proprietary and/or undisclosed (i.e. Android for smart phones, smart watches, tablets; Siri, Roku, Smart TVs, Cable and Satellite boxes, a bunch of that sort of junk and too many other things to mention here). As a case in point, here is a diagram of how the Linux kernel is used with the Android operating system.

Can I interest you in a bottle of wine to go with that? It's really good wine I hear.

The freezing problem is an issue with transmitted digital media. It doesn't happen to everyone all at once, or else you would see more reports on the same issue. With satellite, it might be an intermittent weather condition. Not directly overhead either. That is one of the reasons I left Cable and went to Directv a few years ago. Overall our cable was quite bad in our area and this was a frequent occurrence, and in my case the Directv has been much better. There is another issue, involved in digital media, where you get dropped video frames or dropped audio frames. This is simply due to interferences and intermittent issues. Since the audio and video elements of digital media arrive at different times on different frames, if any bit of it gets dropped or doesn't make it to you, then it will most likely cause it to go out of synch. This can also sometime be an issue with DVRs, when hard drives begin to wear out. The quality of Cable varies rather wildly, based on how busy the use is for a particular area. (It doesn't actually broadcast like analog cable, broadcast TV, or satellite - it has to send an individual signal to each customer - just like streaming Internet video, so when you get more viewers it gets more congested). Directv, on the other hand, can sometimes have issues but for usually for different reasons.