Movie Collector OH
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2 minutes ago, Fedya said:
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?tz=est&sdate=2017-10-18; change the last numbers based on what month you want to see.
Now try clicking on the Print Movie Listing button
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Don't like the huge emojis?? Under Firefox or Chrome families of browsers (and I now see also Safari - see here: https://adblockplus.org/en/safari ), add the "Adblock Plus" extension. Click "Filter Preferences" and click "Add Filter". Copy and paste this line into filter field to kill emojis, close config, and refresh page.
http://content.invisioncic.com/q242003/reactions/*
[this rule is subject to change]
You're welcome.
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Jeez. All I'm seeing here is **** **** **** ****. Good to be back. Has anyone seen the printer-friendly monthly schedule yet?
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Is the TCM screening of LILIOM with Charles Boyer a premiere showing ? And regarding the February schedule, if TCM can bypass Arthur Miller's contempt for Fredric March's performance in DEATH OF A SALESMAN it would be a wonderful surprise to see it scheduled.
My project says so. At least since 2000. Before that most of the schedules are accounted for too, except for about a combined two years worth.
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Monthly updates from my project are posted. Things have been busy for me lately, but I still managed to get this done. Also the last of the data for 1997 is in. One more complete year of old schedules accounted for.
Here is my usual take on the premieres:
http://moviecollector.us/reports/Future_Premieres.htm
Here is a new report showing just the movies, but listed in order of last showing. Top of list is stuff that hasn't been shown in a long time, bottom is most recent stuff added to the schedule. It probably doesn't serve much practical value for quick reference purposes, but may still be interesting for some:
http://moviecollector.us/reports/Movies-Only_last-scheduled.htm
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Worked fine for me. I don't use twitter, either.
http://mailchi.mp/1b03cf5bad58/ready-for-halloween-tcm-is-301203
That link works.
P.S. the former link was just a non-secure redirect link that throws up an error on the browsers. In other words they could present a vulnerability. If I defeat the security measures on my browser then I am able to get to it. About par for the course around here I suppose.
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TCM tweet Today......
TCMVerified account @tcm 4h4 hours ago
The mid-month October Now Playing Newsletter is here courtesy of Frankenstein: http://myt.cm/NowPlayingOct17MM …
(Better late than never.......guess TheCid wasn't ONLY one complaining!)
Broken link? I tried it on three different browsers. No Twitter account to log into for me though.
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At first I didn't notice, but the sticky in this area says they are upgrading their "platform" software. That is the software which manages the website, not the website itself. Also I have noticed that they are running a recently discontinued version of Apache Tomcat, which happens to be platform software. Right now the core version they are running is around ten years old. So with an upgrade to a current platform, one can anticipate things like better load balancing, better uptime, etc. All things that would benefit streaming videos (which have evolved quite a bit since then), if that is in fact located on the same system. One can only hope.
This website itself has a number of issues that could be corrected with a minor amount of hacking, not really even programming. Well you could call it that if you want. That would just take someone who is familiar with the scripting language that this site is coded in, or familiar with scripting languages in general, and make some small changes. (Hopefully it is good hacking)
Anything is possible.
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Posted Yesterday, 12:16 PM
Next week, we have scheduled some maintenance to our Message Boards. This is an upgrade to our platform and will require some downtime on Tuesday, 10/17/2017.
Please be informed that you will not be able to access the boards during this period but we expect that this downtime will only last a few hours.
We thank you in advance for your patience during this period of time.
I have posted on this before, they are presently using Apache Tomcat 6.0.35, which was EOL earlier this year after version 6.0.53. (scroll down to see Releases table - 6.0.35 isn't specifically shown as it was a minor point release)
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I wonder how long 'temporary' is. E.g. the Jazz Guitar Forum posted last week they were going down for 'temporarily' for maintenance.
Each day I would try to log on and get that the website was 'down'. This went on for 5 days. In fact I just checked it and it is finally back up! So in this case 'temporarily' was 5 day.
PS: While I could log on all I got was this message:
Hi guys, sorry for the long wait. All compatibility issues are fixed, we are just doing some fine-tuning now.
We will be back soon...
Oh well. This is a great forum for jazz guitarist (free lessons from pros, pros that chat with use wantabees, cool tips etc...), all for free, so waiting is worth it!
Sounds like they are just going through a punch list of things to get done. Maybe fix a few things, maybe add a few features. It can't hurt.
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**scrap that last idea for now, let's see how servers work after upgrade**
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A bit O/T but I did see someone is doing something, related to the website. There is a locked sticky thread in the off topic forum, stating that it will be temporarily unavailable on Tuesday the 17th for maintenance.
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When I am traveling and have my notebook in tow, I always carry a 10 foot length of HDMI cable, and if I have access to a large screen TV with an HDMI port, I will connect my PC to it. At home, I often do as you do, to take advantage of a screen larger than my notebooks 18 inch monitor.
However something that we probably are both aware of is the fragility of those connectors. They do get loose after repeated use, and eventually will fail. I have 2 HDMI, and 4 USB 3.0 ports on my latest notebook, but only one Ethernet jack, to which I am routinely attaching and removing cable. That is my systems weakest connection, and likely the first that will eventually fail.
I have one USB port connected to an Anker 7 port USB hub, so I can minimize wear and tear on those. But I have wore out ports on previous hubs before, as well as USB ports and Ethernet connectors on other notebook PCs.
With tower PC's, one can usually replace or add a card with new jacks and/or port access. But with compact notebooks, those are always integrated into the motherboard which creates another can of worms when something fails.
This is generally not an issue with static systems that don't move around and remain plugged in all the time. But it is a concern with portable systems and peripherals.
You are probably aware of this already, and it may not be an issue with the way you use your system anyway. But I have noticed with weak connections that just a little loose wobble can also generate some of the symptoms that you have described. Which may or may not be an explanation for why you experienced the temporary sound problem, which can be replicated with a weak HDMI connection. Likewise a weak speaker jack for non-Bluetooth systems using external speakers.
Of course the more peripherals we use, amplifies the possible causes of any problem we may experience, another "potential" that may need to be ruled-out to determine a problems actual source.
I use the Dell Latitude 14.1" (E6420) and 15.6" (E65xx) laptops. They are medium-sized business-class machines which are sturdy and the more commonly replaced items are usually easier to service than on the lower end consumer-grade laptops. For instance, to get at the HDD, you don't need to remove the keyboard and/or the whole bottom. It is just four screws on the bottom, and the HDD caddy slides out. Also the CD/DVD transport slides out (without any screws) and is easily replaced with a secondary HDD caddy.
Anyhow I went wireless at home years ago. I don't use my wired network interface unless I need to connect to the Internet at a job. I went wireless at home over a decade ago with my laptops, before the wired network interface was integrated onto the system board and was usually just a slide-in PCMCIA module. I was burning through CAT-5 connectors too. For me it was the CAT-5 connector on the wire which usually went bad. The coating on the terminals wore off and then oxidized. Replacing the wire or reterminating the wire fixed that. I have found a wireless-G or wireless-N hot spot and Intel mini-pci BGN internal network cards to be a good combination, more reliable than an actual wired connection, for the reasons you mention. [This may not be the case if you live in a condo or apartment in close proximity to a bunch of others doing the same thing.]
A pitfall in the past that has been resolved in the last 8 years or so on these Dell Latitude machines is the DC power connector. Prior to that they used to be soldered to the system board, and the electrical connection would sometimes break loose. In more recent years the DC connector is a discreet component jack with wires that go to the system board. This jack is loosely connected to the chassis, using a clamp mount which allows to float around a bit. The first computer I got where they mounted it this way scared me, until I looked inside and realized the change they made. I though "oh, how cool is that".
There are plenty of USB ports, so the only remaining weak point for me on these is the single HDMI port, which I don't use that much. It looks to be more robust than the other types of connectors anyhow. It is closer in design to a USB port, which is designed for a high amount of insertion cycles. I don't think I've ever had a USB port catastrophically fail. Not unless the computer falls to the ground with a connector plugged into it, and the USB connector is dislodged off the system board. They just seem to loosen their grip a bit over time. On the other hand, I have had thumb drives that get worn out over time (worn off coating and oxidation like the CAT-5 terminations??), but the USB ports on a computer generally outlast the computer for me. I could be wrong, but I suspect that the HDMI ports would last a long time too, unless abused, like if bumped or it fell with a connector plugged into it.
Also last but not least, these days I insist on laptops that have LCD displays with LED backlighting. Traditionally they used LCD displays with CCFL backlighting (a form of fluorescent light), and they might still make some of those. The problem is that CCFL lights go through a "red-shift" when they get old, whereas LED backlights are brighter and remain bright longer, which is easier on my eyes for a work computer.
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@Stephan55
Nice post with historical overview. I especially like your conclusion:
"So sit back, and have a glass of TCM wine, and relax.
Enjoy TCM for what it is, a channel that offers relatively "uncut and commercial free" programming, no more, or less."
Spot on.
At least I don't think I've heard them use the overused corporate phrase "these are exciting times". Or if they have, I filtered it out.
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I currently have IE, Google Chrome, and Firefox browsers on my PC's.
IE is a relic that I stopped using over three years ago. I stopped regularly using Chrome over two years ago and only comparatively refer to it when trying to rule-out a possible issue with Firefox, generally associated TCM ON-DEMAND. Firefox has been my default browser since then.
Aside from the inability to effectively "block" the persistent google cookie, and a few conflicts with TCM ON-DEMAND, which more often than not originate with TCM, so far I have been generally satisfied with Firefox, and support them with donations.
However, because of my generally conservative on-line habits, there may be other issues with Firefox that I am unaware, and I think that it's good to have viable options regarding alternative browsers as well as Operating Systems. So I will follow your example and check out both Vivaldi and Brave.
Perhaps it is wise of you to avoid the frustration of TCM ON-DEMAND, I find myself often wishing that I'd avoided getting sucked into the habit, more and more, these days. But when it works as it should it is easy to become reliant upon the convenience, and it has allowed me to wean myself from consistently recording on my aging DVR's, which I purchased years ago, and the tedium of transferring video's to my stash of blank dvd's.
Not sure how "constructive" or helpful any "feedback" that we've posted here has been to TCM, since they refuse to dialogue with us.
TCM ON-DEMAND has been chronically ill since it's inception. When I first started using it, it's "good" days, well outnumbered the "bad." But it appears to be entering a terminal phase, with ever fewer functional days, and longer lasting periods of decrepitude. Of course it doesn't help for it's "care" to be mismanaged by incompetent "physicians."
Regarding "their R&D," if they'd actually employ some qualified Q & A staff, and stop treating their On-Line viewing products as forever betas, then maybe we could stop posting about these ongoing problems.
However, in light of the reality of what is, and not what I wish it was, I, and others here, have greatly benefited from your technical savvy and insight, and generosity with your time in sharing with us. And if you should ever decide to begin "watching movies online using the Watch TCM services" for "evaluation purposes" I have no doubt that your astute observations and specific comments would prove even more invaluable, to us, and TCM as well, if they should ever discover the wisdom of actively tapping into these boards.
Thanks again. Just your objective testing and reporting is all they need.
FWIW, I see there is a odd Firefox testbed to happen in Germany. Could be a rabbit hole or could be nothing as far as we are concerned:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/09/mozilla_tests_cliqz_in_germany/
Also the comments section there reminds me of the downstream versions of Firefox. There are a couple well-known ones anyhow. I say "downstream versions" as they are not really developed into something much different than FF. In fact they are more just reactions to the design changes Mozilla has made over the years to Firefox. Also I think they are maintained by one individual each, not by entire teams or companies.
Waterfox
-dereviative of Firefox. "64-bit version only. Creates its own user directory, seperate from the FF user directory. The telemetry is all removed; it's not even an option you can turn on or off."
Pale Moon
-derivative of Firefox. Frozen version with pre-Australis interface (classic theme). 32-bit only. [FF Stable was 32-bit-only on Windows until just the last year or two, so not as big of a deal as it may seem.] So if you like the older theme, you wouldn't need to use Classic Theme Restorer add-on. Doesn't support "e10s".
["e10s" is the finalized release of FF's long-time process abstraction project, using a dedicated Web Content process to run all external plug-ins. This isolates the browser for stability in the event a plug-in crashes, in which case the browser just keeps going along.]
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While reading up on Doc Savage today I discovered that there is a somewhat noteworthy 'fan edit' of the 1975 movie (the "Detarnished" version) that addresses some of the camp nature of the film:
Too bad this version can't be shown on TCM for comparison purposes.
They might be out there if you look. Not a fan myself of fan edits, but this one could be interesting. The original I have seen too. It was "ok" I thought when I saw it on a Sat morning back in the late 70s or early 80s. I'll be recording this one.
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Thanks MCOH for the link, I will definitely check out Vivaldi.
I doubt that it will make the current TCM Not ON-DEMAND issues go away, since those problems originate with TCM.
But, Firefoxes latest update (v.56.0.0, released 9/28/2017) brings it's own issues into play (with TCM at least) presenting us with a blank, greyed-out screen when attempting to load anything from TCM ON-DEMAND.
Another issue I have with Firefox is that it will not functionally accept a Privacy "exception" to block the google.com cookie.
And I stopped using the Google Chrome browser (except for testing purposes) over two years ago because of that undesired telemetry.
Same reason that I am no longer a fan of MS.
So if I can find a more "secure" browser that is as functional for me as Firefox, that will allow me to deny persistent google cookies from migrating into their cookie jar, I would be a more happy on-line user.
My on-line habits have grown ever more conservative over the years, while at the same time my dependency on digital data has increased dramatically. It is a conundrum trying to balance an acceptable level of "security" while still retaining access.
So I am very appreciative of your advice and suggestions.
Ok, then in the same kind of direction I was going with Vivaldi, there is one more browser. It is called Brave. This is different from Vivaldi as it is written from the ground up. As a result it has the least amount of features out of any browser I have covered in this thread, but it too is actively being developed by a real company. It is headed up by the former CEO of Firefox of many years (back during their most productive years), and he was also the creator of Javascript (part of any modern web browser). In any case, Brave is entirely built in-house, except for some optional extensions as I understand.
A unique feature of Brave is that it incorporates its own optional ad server system which allows you to substitute Brave's own ad network for a given website's ad server (Allow Ads / Show Brave Ads / No Ads). The clicks from Brave Ads generate revenue for both the site being visited and Brave. You can also choose to just browse without any ads.
Besides those three options, there is a fourth option to register and put money down to browse without ads, but only for sites you wish to support. The money is directly transferred in anonymity to your preferred websites in click points, in exchange for no ads. Your preferred websites get credit for click points and you get no ads.
Like Chrome/Android, Brave will soon have a Sync With IOS completed (for iPhone). On the other hand I think it is unknown if Vivaldi will have this, as most of the important things Vivaldi does operate outside of the Google Chrome environment.
There is the provision for extensions with Brave too, but it is mostly still in its infancy. This would include an external plug-in for Adobe Flash. I can't speak for Windows, but on Linux operating systems it needs "pepperflashplugin", a product developed for Chrome by Google. This browser caught my interest because its main components are truly built from the ground up.
So to summarize desktop browser families in order of popularity:
There is Google Chrome and several downstream browsers which use common open-source tools developed by Google for it. One of these downstream browsers would be Vivaldi, which has all the Google telemetry stripped out, but also has the benefit of their R&D in its rendering engine. It has many additional features that only Vivaldi's (formerly Opera's) crazy Norwegians could think of (actually they listen very closely to their user base).
There is Mozilla Firefox and its derivatives, written from open-source components sourced by Mozilla. This has a large add-on base, but they are currently phasing older ones out due to recent changes in the main program. This may or may not hurt them.
There are the two main OS vendor browsers (IE/Edge and Safari). Both are closed-source, so no downstream browsers being developed by third parties.
Then there are new ones built from the ground up. This is a very small category because it is the most difficult to do with limited resources as they have built their own rendering engines too, in order to qualify being in this category. This would include Brave (headed up by Firefox's former CEO). Because he is involved, I would say Brave has a lot of potential.
I have Firefox, Vivaldi, and Brave all installed on my Linux Mint computer, mostly for evaluation purposes. That way I get to see what these two major Firefox and Chrome families of browsers are doing as well as Brave. If something is broken in Vivaldi, there is a good chance it will also be broken in Chrome (in particular, with rendering or with the add-ons). My regular browser is Firefox.
To reiterate, I have no interest in watching movies online using the Watch TCM services at this time, but wish to see things work out. So thanks for the constructive feedback and helping them with their R&D.
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Hey Stephan55,
I see you are having issues with Firefox again. There is another browser you may be interested in testing for these purposes. It is from the team that brought us Opera in the early 2000s.
The short story is that the Opera browser was sold to the Chinese and is no longer being developed by its Norwegian founders. The good news is that Opera's original developers have regrouped and are actively developing Vivaldi, carrying over their methodology from Opera. (The original Opera browser brought us many of the browser features we use across the board today, such as tabbed browsing)
It has more native baseline features than Firefox, so depending on your browsing habits you would probably need fewer add-ons for Vivaldi than for Firefox.
The rendering engine is the open-source Chromium project from Google, so if the Google Chrome browser can work for you, then this should too - except that it won't "phone home" to Google (though it uses free add-ons from the Chrome "store").
Just another tool for the toolbox.
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i subscribe through Cox cable and i have been experiencing movies failing to play for about a month. the cable company checked out their end and all my equipment is excellent. the tier 2 supervisor also tried to load 2 of the movies i had issues with: he is in virginia, i live in connecticut. he could not load the exact same movies i couldnt . no coincidence. Something is wrong on the web site. flash player is or was fine. i used 3 of the recommended browsers on 2 separate computers. one with windows 10 professional the other with windows 7 ultimate both are 64bit systems. i gave up trying to use firefox months ago. java script prevents me from logging in. it is a total waste of time. i use microsoft edge in windows.10 chrome and IE11. and chrome and IE on windows 7. and, ironically, the movies on demand that will not load are the ones i want to watch. most of the movies will load and play but from a handful to a full dozen will not.those that will play do take much longer to finally play than ,say, 5-6months ago when all was fine.
i hope turner techs will reply ,better yet, fix the issue.
john
I don't personally try to watch movies this way, but not that long ago I helped another poster out with Firefox. It turned out that this TCM service requires third party cookies to be enabled, and apparently they weren't on Firefox on his machine. (To the best of my knowledge, this wasn't actually posted anywhere to inform)
Also if you can get it to work on the Chrome browser, but want your computer to be Google-free as I do, there is the web browser Vivaldi - made by the founders of the web browser Opera. These days Opera is owned and run by the Chinese, no longer by the Norwegians who originally gave us Opera. Vivaldi uses open-sourced Chrome components, but doesn't phone home to Google like Chrome. Being that Vivaldi is based on the same rendering engine that Chrome uses, it ought to work just the same.
(I'm a Linux Mint guy when I'm on the Internet, so my browser options include everything available except for Microsoft or Mac browsers, which I wouldn't want to touch anyway)
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I've only seen 42 of the Bottom 100.
Slacker!!
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Not again...
Every few months someone starts a thread about what they see as the “so-called” demise of Turner Classic Movies represented by the channel showing some obscure recent film and because of this the reaction TCM is somehow going the way of AMC or worse, just going in the wrong direction that some here have feared would happen eventually.
The film you mentioned, “Who’s That Girl” a Warner Bros release from 1987 has caused what appears great consternation on your part. As has been written by me and several others on the board in the recent past, this is not unusual for TCM.
Going back to 1994 when TCM started, the channel has always shown what some have called recent films. Looking back to 1994, those first few months saw films from the 1980’s and 1970’s dotting the schedule every month.
For TCM to show films from a certain point in time, especially the rare to find classics from the 1930’s to the 1950’s, they often have to show more recent films to justify contract stipulations they have agreed to from the distribution companies and or film studios.
In this case “Who’s That Girl” from 1987 is part of the Warner Bros. film library. Obviously in order for TCM to show certain films from way back from Warner Bros, they have to agree to also showcase other more recent films from that studio to satisfy any contract they agree with in order to show those older more classic films. In this case, the Madonna film was probably included in whatever contract TCM signed to show other older films.
In very simple language, this is often the case. That is why this film along with many other poorly produced films from the recent past appear on the channel.
It does not mean that TCM is going the way of AMC. All one has to do is look at the monthly schedules and I am sure more than 65 to 75% of all the films being shown on the channel were films produced from before 1960 or 1970.
And to be frank, there is nothing wrong with showing these more recent, obscure films. They satisfy any agreement TCM makes with the distributor and often are only shown once or twice within a given month, possibly more times depending on which older films are being negotiated for.
So as James has written, just because TCM is showing one film you dislike, there is no reason to sit here and bemoan athat TCM is dying and all is lost. This is just not the case.
No, I don't see it going the way of AMC. The schedules show that. They have just been furiously shuffling everything else about the brand around. Ruffled a lot of feathers. The one thing that could use some updating is this site (or not). The quirks and pitfalls haven't changed one bit in the roughly three years I've been posting here.
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My comment was about the post on the Dracula promo.
But I will say this, it's impossible to predict which direction a thread will go, or how people will take it. Things meant in fun will be taken seriously, serious things will be riffed on. It all goes back to that tragic lack of an emoticon with its tongue in its cheek, or one that transmits mock anxiety over imagined catastrophes.
I was talking about the *ahem* performance artist.
Maybe I should start my own thread on this, just so I can claim what is O/T or not.
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I didn't happen to see it. Do you mean like a vertical jitter? Sounds like an analog type of problem.
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You might want to post over here too, more people who have a clue about these things:
https://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/forums/directv-support-forum.11/
Using process of elimination... Maybe a bad LNB on the dish, or a bad Power Injector? (PI is a small box that powers up the the active electronics on the satellite dish, it is located somewhere along the coax cable, between the dish and receiver) Also you might have an "SWM", a device with a splitter on it. This connects the satellite dish to the Genie receiver and also the Genie clients. The installers put my PI and SWM on the floor behind my entertainment center. It's been sitting there just fine for three years.
It looks like mine is connected like this:
satellite dish >> power injector >>SWM splitter >> Genie receiver & clients
Of course there are other types of configurations in older installations.
re: Forum Update 10/17/2017
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We've been migrated to newer forum software. It is always a little rough in the beginning. This transition appears to have gone fairly smooth. Just needs some odds and ends ironed out.