Movie Collector OH
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2 hours ago, limey said:
I'm probably not giving too much away by saying it ends
as Princess of Tap suggestssatisfactorily...Edna May Oliver rather steals the scenes that she appears in, as does the huge sheepdog.
My recording was fine, except for a momentary digital picture/audio breakup at around 23 minutes - I think that you experienced an issue with your local provider's feed.
Same here, but no audio breakup on my end.
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The older lady that chased Jack Tripper around. He couldn't get away from her quick enough. (Recovering Three's Company fan here)
Rest In Peace
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On embedding Youtube videos:
Copy and paste the link (from the address bar at top of Youtube video browser window), and then HIT ENTER
You're welcome.
I've already made a few posts where the video was the last thing in the post (no apparent reason to hit Enter after that), and wondered why it didn't embed.
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4 hours ago, TCMModerator1 said:
Hi MovieCollectorOH
Can you please provide a screenshot of exactly what you're referring to? Where is it missing?
Hi, here's a screenshot. This is Firefox, running in "safe mode", just to rule out any possible anomalies with add-ons. The tab for this forum web page has what looks to be a 3rd party icon. I just tried it on a couple other unrelated browsers and get exactly the same thing. To the left of that you can see that the browser correctly shows the orange DuckDuckGo icon and to the left of that the blue Netaddress icon. Not a dealbreaker, but I used to work for a publisher so branding deviations like this get my attention.
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9 hours ago, darkblue said:
I think the emoji's suck.
"Like" is the only one we "need" to have.
I still have mine disabled, as I recommended earlier on using Adblock Plus. So I only see words, vote numbers, and poster names. That is more than enough. On the old boards I used to have all the avatars disabled too, but on this newer one doing that also disables some of the user-uploaded content. I might still hide that too, just apathetic/undecided so far. Also it would be cool to be able to change the TCM turquoise gradients to something else - maybe light shades of gray or maybe just lighter more subtle shades of...err..Turquoise. Largely a matter of personal preference of course.
I do like the new software though.
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15 minutes ago, limey said:
Could, not automatically should - it's a different bit of code, possibly working on a different data-set. Without knowledge of the code in question, I've no idea just how big a job that implementation would be - but the gist of the forum posts that google turned up, indicated that Invision didn't consider that implementing the ability to change sorting post order in the current software, as something high priority.
As a developer myself, it simply sounds to me like a feature they decided to drop. Likely the newer format would have not have been very friendly for them to work with in that regard, leading them to just scrap the idea altogether. (It is a different beast) That or else they just lost interest in that concept.
There are so many new perks, such as live javascript/jquery updates (if it works for you, this is the real time popups on the bottom and the "bloop" sound whenever someone posts replies, etc). Marvelous!
I think they did a great job at emulating the old forum with fresh new software (though why anyone would want to do that is beyond me).
Good job to all.
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The TCM-branded favicon.ico or favicon.gif is still missing. That is a tiny little graphic that goes into the public html root of this website, it seems they missed copying it over in the upgrade, or the page isn't configured to use it.
Here is the icon file used in the past, c/o Wayback Machine:
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This enigmatic promo has resurfaced. I have seen it at least twice recently. It just aired in fact. A commercial about the making of a commercial. A Reality TV piece at best. I suppose it fits in with some of the pleasant old Vitaphone one-reelers.
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3 hours ago, scsu1975 said:
I am getting more comfortable with this "oldest posts first" setup, and can certainly work around it if needed. But there are some odd consequences of this. I've noticed posters reacting to posts I made years ago, probably because they pop up near the beginning of the threads now. The scary part is that I don't even remember posting some of the stuff. Also, this setup allows anyone to resurrect very old threads, an action which used to be frowned upon by previous moderators (not that the policy ever stopped me from doing it).
As long as the newer posts are relevant to the old threads, I don't see what the problem would be. It ties more information together. The only situation where I have seen this discouraged for good cause is on forums where the OP posts a problem that needs to be solved, like on a car forum, and then the OP marks it as "solved".
Maybe that makes sense for the Information Please section, but not really for this.
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Just now, LawrenceA said:
The deaf ears may be a result of many people not really knowing what that means.
This refers to pics, etc, that you upload to the site, rather than hotlinking? I'm guessing this is the case, since I've posted many pictures since the update, but it says I've used 0 of my 3MB.
Yes!
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9 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
nickp91 said: Disney would gain by buying 20th Century Fox: Titanic, Home Alone, Planet of the Apes
Haha those examples of 20th Century Fox movies are not what us older movie fans think of-we automatically think of the much earlier, true film classics.
MovieCollectorOH said: One upside might be somebody giving a rip about Fox's rare old movies.
Yeah, just exactly like they care about their own Disney rare old movies.
I love Disney the man and all the wonderful art he brought to millions with his movies. The company since his & brother Roy's death? Not so much. I avoid ALL Disney just like I do WalMart.
Yeah, that's more or less what I was thinking. It seems as if the Murdoch sons, or their father, aren't quite sure they have it in them. But it is not exactly an apples to oranges comparison. It is more like a mushroom to mushroom comparison (as per old movies, they both tend to keep us in the dark and feed us ...)
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14 hours ago, slaytonf said:
It seems there's a total amount of attachments you can make from your computer across all the threads. I just uploaded a number of images and now I'm down to 92 kb I can upload.
Correct. I have pointed this out before, but it seemed to fall upon deaf ears.
There is a 3MB limit to what you can store on your own TCM account. That is exactly the same as before. The only difference is now it is easier to fill that little bit up. So choose wisely.
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11 minutes ago, darkblue said:
In my experience, those guys are the worst kind of "moderators". Inevitably, their ego's become problematic to all but the suck-ups - usually one in particular who will start acting as the "head" moderator and pull rank on the more reasonable others.
Well in this case it's a non-starter. Too many of those aforementioned points missing, so nobody who posts here would instantly qualify or be "in". New blood would be needed. Or reconstituted blood from an old head.
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@OP: I'm going to skip right past the technical challenges, since I have offered advice in other threads. Firefox or Chrome shouldn't present any issues. For me it is Firefox due to privacy issues, but you didn't ask about that.
The question about whether or not they intend to shut down this message board is a relevant one. It may in fact be an experiment in the making, as in "it is being evaluated". Of course I had the same thoughts three years ago or so back when I first joined. As one who participates on some other discussion boards that the owners take seriously, I cannot really say this has ever really been a "moderated" board in the time I have been around. The occasional drop-ins from some anonymous soul are not the same as two or three members who are designated as such, use their real names, are known in their industry, and participate regularly on the forum. Maybe the liabilities here are just non-existent and that would be too much to ask for. But in my opinion, this approach tends to devalue it.
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One upside might be somebody giving a rip about Fox's rare old movies. It can get worse, but it can get better too.
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Depends on the target market. There are plenty of parents who don't want Hollywood bringing up their kids for them.
However if you are talking about a character type in a comedy/fiction piece targeted at the adult market, then that is a different thing.
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23 minutes ago, darkblue said:
Problem?
Non-English languages sound so foreign to my ear that I rarely relate them to recognizable emotion anyway. That makes it a super easy decision for me. Sub-titles suck - unless it's a 4-star classic or near that, I'm not gonna choose to read a movie when there's tens of thousands of movies I haven't seen and don't have to read.
No, we agree. Unless they redo it with somebody that sounds like the cleaning lady or the janitor. The worst I think was when Mel Blanc no longer did Barnie Rubble.
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1 hour ago, darkblue said:
I like dubbed movies. Having to read while I'm trying to watch a movie ****** me off.
I don't understand a word of French, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, you name it, anyway, so they all sound "fake" to me.
The absolute worst is a spaghetti western that hasn't been dubbed into English. What a joke.
Excluding the spaghetti westerns, this presents a major problem. Exotic beauties or subtitles. Subtitles or exotic beauties.
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59 minutes ago, scsu1975 said:
I shudder to think of such classic dubbed films as Beast of Yucca Flats and The Creeping Terror with subtitles.
LOL The Beast Of Yucca Flats they did it on the cheap, and knew it. The actors turned away from the camera for the speaking parts. Easier to do ADR later on. If fact they can forget about that and just say whatever the hell they want and it will work out. It doesn't seem quite right though.
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Have you ruled out any "Google Store" Add-Ons on Chrome which may be interfering? In particular, ad-blockers?
Also how about cookies. Are you allowing them? Third-party cookies need to be enabled in order to log into the streaming video part of the website. With third party cookies disabled it would cause it to throw up a bunch of crap that some have attributed to "broken Javascript". Maybe that is a factor for you here.
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3 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
This is "off rail", but just heard this yesterday......
A brother in law of mine was recalling the time his buddy tried to get him to go on a blind date with his girl's best friend. Told my brother in law, "You'll like her. She looks like a MOVIE STAR!" So my brother in law accepted the blind date on that premise. Then he went on to say, "Yeah, but he never told me the "movie star" she looked like was ERNEST BORGNINE!
Sepiatone
Reminds me of a buddy I used to have. He would say things like that. He was a teetotaler, so he had to make up for it somehow. He did use his humor to make some amazing inroads, socially. I remember watching him try to set up one of his friends with another one. "Well, she only has a little bit of hair on her arms and only a little bit growing out of her nose, not anything you'd notice in the dark".
Maybe I'll try and look this guy up to see how his humor holds up.
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1 hour ago, TikiSoo said:
Yo, time for me to start shopping for a new Mac....
That's what I was thinking you had, but wasn't sure. There are cheaper options, but for posting on here, doing multimedia things, for ease of use, and keeping it "low maintenance", a Mac is going to be better than a Windows computer any day of the week...
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2 hours ago, darkblue said:
All I can tell you is that I use a 7-year-old PC (Dell) and I use Microsoft Edge (formerly IE) that comes with Windows 10 (upgraded by MS from Windows 7 for free).
and I have had zero issues with the new upgrade.
The bottom line is you are using something that is at least halfway current.
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9 hours ago, mr6666 said:
maybe just me, but 'search' (at least in OT) doesn't seem to work
Search works for me on Firefox version 56 (current version). Nothing remarkable as far as settings go.
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DAMAGED FILMS
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Yeah, that's what I think too.