Movie Collector OH
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Though TCM originates at 1080i/30, it can be seen at slightly different resolutions depending on carrier, but just not better than that.
For instance Directv currently allows for TCM's full 1080i size (1920x1080, interlaced) [16:9] at 30 frames per second. So their viewers will see it as it originates from TCM.
Dish, on the other hand, shows a slightly different version. While most people probably couldn't tell the difference, there is technically a different picture than that of the original signal. From Wikipedia: In 2007, Dish Network reduced the resolution of 1080-line channels from 1920x1080 [16:9] to 1440x1080. Reducing horizontal resolution and/or data rate of HD video is known as HD Lite and is practiced by other TV providers as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dish_NetworkI have seen in other places that Dish Network is stated to use 720p/60 (1280x720 or 16:9 at 60 frames/sec) - similar in bandwidth or data rate to 1080i/30, with some of the resolution substituted for twice as many frames).
Whatever the case, I know for sure that sports networks and other major networks which show sports tend to originate at 720p/60, specifically for better motion.
1080p/60 [so far used in Blu-Ray and some streaming] uses a substantially higher amount of bandwidth (data) than either 1080i/30 or 720p/60, which is why you don't see it in the broadcast TV spec. (60 frames/sec instead of traditional 30 frames/sec, PLUS the full 1920x1080 resolution).
The increase in frame count with 1080p/60, as well as with 720p/60, is a moot point for TCM as it originates at 30 frames/sec (1080i/30). So there wouldn't be any advantage.
Cable TV systems are yet another ball of wax I won't get into in this post. In the past I used to have Time Warner Cable (prior to Spectrum merger). That was 1080i/30. Your cable system may vary.
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15 minutes ago, limey said:
Well, you could just omit the space between Boston & (that which shall not be scribed)...
BostonBlackie vs
I have found the white text color to be particularly effective... (made you look, didn't I)
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6 hours ago, Fedya said:
Maybe the moderators finally had it with your habit of deliberately making your posts unreadable with your use of asterisks and substituting I's for 1s among other things.
Lemme guess somebody has a Royal, an Underwood, or a Smith-CorIeone keyboard?
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The Georgio Moroder hit is great. In general I like anything he worked behind the scenes on (some big movie hits from the 1980s). Georgio B The Man.
Also Coast To Coast has always played a few songs in normal rotation by obscure early 1980s German experimental group Cusco, which played early traditional music on synthesizers. For most people, it evokes images of mischievous space aliens moving around (gee I wonder why). I'm not so much a fan of this stuff. It sounds a bit dated for C2C to me, but not so much if I take into consideration it wasn't written about space aliens in the first place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cusco_(band)
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I listen to streaming radio for background noise as I work, and many talk radio hosts have given a tip of the hat to Art Bell. I mean many. The guy was an icon.
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Quite young. I'm sad to see Harry Anderson go too. RIP
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1 hour ago, TopBilled said:
Are you archiving the schedules? I know you are listing the number of times a movie has aired and when it aired. But what about the daily schedules?
Sorry. No daily schedules on hand - I never collected them.
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There is my project:
http://moviecollector.us/reports.htmand in particular this summary page:
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Impact (1949) with Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines
Fancy enough for me.
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1 hour ago, Feego said:
Unfortunately, my TV's program guide mirrored TCM's website last night, so even this is no guarantee. I Tivo'd Greed, but luckily for me I noticed which version was playing when it started and was able to change the settings on my recording to catch the whole thing, as it was originally set to only record a 2-hour and 15-minute block.
I've noticed this issue every Saturday morning on my TV's (Grande) guide since TCM began airing short cartoons. A Popeye or some such cartoon will take up an hour block on the guide, while the Tarzan film airing afterword is only given a 30 minute block, or sometimes not listed at all. This makes it very difficult to DVR programming at that time unless you manually set it, which entails trusting TCM's website to give the correct times.
Shorts are not reliably scheduled. Whatsoever. 50% of the time or more they get chopped in half. Even with 2-3 minute padding before/after. So I could see how that might happen.
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My DVR uses the third party Schedules Direct service. It captured half of Greed and then captured about the first half of Solyaris. Oddly enough it still recorded a substantial sized block, probably big enough to fit the whole film.
Let's do this again and get it right.
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2 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Both Fedya and myself mentioned this in the "Hits & Misses" thread yesterday afternoon. Sorry to hear that some people missed the movie anyway.
I've got it on DVD. Feel free to swing by and borrow it if you want. I'll be around the house all afternoon.
Party at Larry's!
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4 hours ago, hamradio said:
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I knew you'd find a way to keep it relevant.
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22 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Thanks a lot Sepia....now I've got to find that Harry Lubin on CD. That was great Theremin playing- more "vocal" style than "violin" style.
That Blue Man Group thing was kind of interesting too. So their performance is just a bunch of percussionists with vinyl head coverings? Anyone know what that PVC drum apparatus is? Interesting, but I bet it's too loud for me to see live.
I thought you might like it for the visuals. Very 1980s IMO, like some geeky science/party movie.
It can't be that loud where the singers are standing, or else the stage volume would outshout their voices in their mics, and you wouldn't hear the more subtle parts as you can. She sounds great. I'm almost 100% certain the singer is performing live, as she and her two keyboardist bandmates (behind to the left) are doing a guest performance with BMG here.
Behind the singer and all the pantomime drummers is the actual band you hear, maybe about a 6-8 piece core band - though I might be off. I noticed a lot of distortion on the electric guitar, which makes it seem like it would be loud, but that is often just 'FX'. Most of those drum-like devices you see them pounding on are just props that have electronic drums or e-drum triggers underneath the surface. This is to create a precise repeatable sound without any drum tuning needed, and an added benefit that they wouldn't add a bunch of extra noise to the stage volume.
(Many big-time pop keyboardists do exactly the same thing except with a keyboard. They go out touring with an electronic keyboard that is mounted in a real piano with the action taken out, or is mounted in a prop piano. This is so it sounds consistent across different venues and doesn't need tuning each time it is moved about.)
BMG has a complex stage, but they normally performed in the same place - a venue where they had a residency for some time. So if they need to share a venue with other groups, and they are fortunate, all they would need to do is just roll it all backstage in big pieces on carts and then back out again. Similar to the way they quickly deploy and then strike a Superbowl halftime show during commercial breaks.
The volume level in the audience is a creative decision that is independent from anything that happens on stage, so I can't say how loud it might have been for the audience. I have been to country concerts that have been horribly loud and rock/pop concerts that have been more listenable. I always bring high quality audiophile earplugs with me just in case, as I value my hearing.
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Now this is something. Never mind the guys in blue. It gets better. I'm sure this was in an 80s movie somewhere.
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P.S. I forgot to mention I capped it off between 1928 and 1990, but you probably already realized. That was more of a time-saving measure for me than anything else and it was getting late, so Hollywood will have to deal with that.
Originally it was going to be directly posted into the forum, like the others do. Since text files were uploaded instead, here is a bigger list of 1000. There were some issues with character sets and intermediate files, so this one is directly exported to the beloved HTML table format.
http://moviecollector.us/adhoc_reports/most-reviewed-movies-1000-2018-Q1.htm
I'm not suggesting TCM start showing Chopping Mall or anything.
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Here is something I came across that I thought might be of interest, so I threw it together into a format I could easily post (I didn't see anything like this currently in their search pages). The 200 most reviewed movies on IMDB - "an interest metric." This is a different tally from their usual ratings, which displays number of ratings and ratings average. This is a tally of the movies with the most reviews written and vetted for each movie. I believe it will tend to be more accurate since upvote bots typically don't submit detailed reviews. So at least if you want to bring modern movies into the mix, this will probably be as good an indicator as any of overall viewer interest.
I'm just posting a plain text file in this case, since it will most likely just be a one-time thing for me.
http://moviecollector.us/adhoc_reports/IMDB-most-reviewed-movies-2018-Q1.txt
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On 4/9/2018 at 4:54 PM, sewhite2000 said:
Yep, definitely caught Peace on Earth one night in February between features.
Can you figure out which night? I have a project contributor who may be interested in this as a case in point, as he does this a different way, and I don't see this in either of our offline data.
In any case not a huge deal to me, as it is not a feature length movie.
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50 minutes ago, Stephan55 said:
Not so sure about that Eric.
Though TCM did air several cartoons on Saturday's, back when Ben first began hosting, they have been rather stingy with them ever since... that is until they just recently began tossing in a cartoon or two again on Saturdays.
I remember seeing Peace On Earth long ago on TCM (but NOT during Oscar month!).
I just "fact" checked with MCOH's marvelous schedule summary and, according to it, TCM has only aired Peace On Earth a total of five times since its inception, and the last two times were were both in December of 2007 & 2005.
For such a classic I consider that to be far below from being "up to my eyeballs" in over airing!
And I personally can't remember seeing any of the Pepe Le Pew cartoons on TCM. If I did, it may have been back around 2003, or so?
http://moviecollector.us/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm
This was part of the older Cartoon Alley block. They showed it twice during 2004-12 and twice in 2005-12. There was also a later airing in 2007. I don't have any more info than that. It was a short, so they may have used it unannounced some other time as a bookend as well.
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4 minutes ago, lavenderblue19 said:
Sad news and yes takes me back to my childhood. Chuck McCann was always so much fun to watch. Cheerful, sweet, funny guy.
RIP Chuck McCann
I'll have to watch The Projectionist again to commemorate.
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On 4/2/2018 at 11:43 AM, shutoo said:
I've always thought she was underrated as a fine actress because of her work in comedy, but she's one of my favorites!..and once again, there will be a Doris Day-day on TCM that doesn't show the only one of her films I haven't seen--Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (even though she has said it was one of her least favorites..)
This movie has occurred to me a few times as a possible answer to this thread in the Information section, I just never got around to posting on it:
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6 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Too bad none of your posted images showed up in your posts. Not on MY PC anyway.
But I thought of all that while watching CALAMITY JANE the other day, and how I don't think there EVER was a movie of hers that I saw and didn't like.
Sepiatone
Hmm that was different.
For the one or two other technical types here: My up-to-date Firefox browser had no problems, but I tried uploading those pics to my own website, and that server had errors with them. I fixed it by completely replacing the file name on each file. It looks like it comes down to the characters in the filename of each image either being corrupted, or using an unconventional or newer character set. Possibly by the postimg.org hosting site. It gave me errors until I completely renamed them on my machine, which uses UTF-8 natively.
Most computers in use today in the Western world use either UTF-8 natively (in widest use today) or some variant of ISO-8859, as Windows computers have used. I didn't bother to find out what was actually wrong with the filename of each image.
Anyhow, here.
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Happy Birthday! Yes, Doris Day sure does look good here. I would say "untainted". Probably due to getting out of Hollywood when she did and living a wholesome lifestyle.
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Nice hotel theme on Fri the 8th. I haven't gone that far into it yet though.
Would you ever say a movie is stupid?
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I had an idea earlier and then got sidetracked. It revolved around "cinematic immunity", and one man's trash being another man's treasure though. For a short answer I'd have to say The Anchorman is absolute trash. Too many leaving the theater.