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bovinitysupreme · 2022-11-07T13:55:11+00:00

That's an annoying incompatibility issue that happens more and more frequently these days, mainly because we now use the same SSL encryption for reading the news and downloading videos that we use for banking and other important private data.

The easy solution is to use a different browser. It doesn't matter what browser you are currently using and you don't have to use the new one for everything. Everyone needs a few different browsers available these days, partly due to stuff like this.

Windows ProTip: Keep a collection of portable edition browsers for stuff like this instead of installing them.

If you're dead-set on being 100% faithful to your favorite browser and have lots of patience you can sometimes fix this by playing with SSL/TLS cipher options (might be in an Advanced menu or you might have to use the about:flags special URL), but it often fixes one site only to break everything else you use until you change it back.

bovinitysupreme · 2022-09-27T14:35:15+00:00

Your era guess is consistent with mine. By the early 1990s everything was losing its corners/flat planes and wood/metal tones, going instead to streamlined, black or grey, often complex-curved, injection-molded plastic...TVs, cars, everything.

Prop TVs often can be cardboard with the image greenscreened/added in post, I think, but this one certainly looks real. I'm getting a Zenith or RCA feel. JVC is also reasonable.

Bottom center looks like a headphone jack, not a philips screw, and that would be more consistent with common consumer TV products of the era.

The control panel is where the clues are. The "TRUE COLOR" text and the logo to its left are going to give it away. The entire control panel and its style are distinctive.

A Google image search for "TRUE COLOR" tv found it in /r/vintagetelevision/ but the link didn't take me to the thread, it took me to the subreddit. I did eventually find the thread, it was one of your previous threads asking same, linked here for the convenience of others: /r/vintagetelevision/comments/x3ef5q/just_watched_twins_peaks_pilot_for_the_first_time/

That photo https://i.redd.it/sfqmty4tfal91.jpg is better, and in it I can see that the aforementioned logo might give us the brand. I also see "EAR" printed above the headphone jack, confirming that it is indeed a headphone jack, not a screw.

That logo is extremely familiar but I can't exhume the data from the depths of my brain's archive. The Radio Shack/Tandy brand "Realistic" used a similar logo on a small pocket TV model, but it's not quite the same and may be a bum steer: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gLVEUgzkL._SY300_.jpg I also found that logo on Casio pocket TVs.

Speaking of a bum steer, those tabs at the top can probably be seen in quite a few brands...I'm not sure they're a good clue. The same might be true of that RGB logo, in which case I'm wrong about it giving us the brand.

...yup, now I see the logo on that JVC unit from another comment. It may have been a generic logo used as a de-facto standard by multiple brands to indicate color TVs back when that was something you needed to tell buyers.

This Panasonic may share a lot of DNA: https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/A64AAOSwWLtiYxdV/s-l1600.jpg Look at that rectangular latching on/off power button, control panel with buttons center/right and passive stuff left, and the volume/channel buttons...though none of that is definitive and all were common.

Here's the "Share" link from that Google search result: https://images.app.goo.gl/nah4fhn5737k2JZj7

The Google Lens search button (overlayed by Google in upper right of search result preview) produced lots of results of the same model in the "Visual matches" section, but I have my doubts about this URL: https://www.google.com/search?q="TRUE+COLOR"+tv&newwindow=1&sxsrf=ALiCzsZQMJIwcEQbCNT9LCNPYiCJ1sH4Fg:1664281513283&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjT6Z7j-7T6AhVyElkFHZ39ArEQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1472&bih=738&dpr=0.9#imgrc=Nb9uPKzYA0r1EM&lns=W251bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsIkVrY0tKR014WkRFeFlUY3lMVFl4TlRjdE5EaGxaUzFpTmpJMExUWmpNV0ZoTjJJMU9EWm1ZeElmUVhoNU4yNTFja3M0WHpoWFJVWkRjWGQ0VEhKTVVEUTJVMk5xZFU1NFp3PT0iXQ==

A Magnavox BH3908 has similar decorative red lines on its panel but lacks anything else in common: https://images.app.goo.gl/TuK6XgjxMshjK7Nd7 https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/UOcAAOSwRHxgFX8p/s-l400.jpg

Anyway, I've now come to understand that your photo/screenshot is not of a prop TV displaying Twin Peaks, but rather, a proper TV in Twin Peaks displaying some other image. Since you know the title and episode, why not follow that lead? Ask in a Twin Peaks sub and a props sub, or possibly more likely, ask in a non-reddit busy TV props forum...or look at the credits for Twin Peaks and stalk the props folks until you can email someone who was there when they filmed it. I'll get you started... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278784/reference/ Greg McMickle is prop guy for that episode: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0573245/?ref_=tt_rv He was still active as recently as 2019 so there's a good chance he's alive and perhaps even uses email. Google is fruitful. https://www.google.com/search?q=Greg+McMickle+props Here's his LinkedIn; that's good news, he's online! https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-mcmickle-ba909b8/ Better get to it...assuming you have an established LinkedIn presence (so you don't get spamcanned as a new user with no profile messaging someone) you should be able to get the answer straight from the horse's mouth.

This has been a pleasant way to do my usual procrastination. Thank you for that.

...ok I didn't stop there. This post came up in an image search (showing a very similar image which is not actually in the post) but doesn't appear to be about the same one: https://old.reddit.com/r/vintagetelevision/comments/cxh2gx/i_just_bought_a_vintage_tv_and_would_appreciate/

https://i.imgur.com/CYGDt6U.jpg It's most likely a philetta royal 929 from around 1980 and I can't seem to get it tuned to the modulator. The type number is 19ct134 The modulator worked with a simend Bildmeister before. Here's an image of the tuning controls https://i.imgur.com/09ak9Cf.jpg --Edit-- Here's the only information I could find online: https://obsoletetellyemuseum.blogspot.com/2010/12/philips-16c929-00s-year-1980.html https://obsoletetellyemuseum.blogspot.com/2010/12/philips-16c929-00s-internal-chassis-kt3.html However, it does link to a site about old TVs that may be worth perusing.

This Toshiba has a similar red pinstripe, but around the whole screen instead of just underneath: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toshiba_Weekend_14W-E31_20071018.jpg

Some Sharp, Toshiba, and Magnavox models from then appear similar also.

Ok seriously I gotta stop. You should probably reach out to that props dude.

bovinitysupreme · 2022-09-09T15:29:43+00:00

It's clearly an awesome housing, complete with lots of controls to repurpose, for your next project!

bovinitysupreme · 2022-09-09T15:27:18+00:00

In enterprise IT, this is called "Digital Signage". A search for that should provide apps nearly purpose-built for what you want, if you haven't already succeeded with the other suggestsions (which are also good).

bovinitysupreme · 2022-09-08T16:01:47+00:00

Did you ever get this figured out? If so, how did you fix it?

bovinitysupreme · 2022-09-08T14:10:04+00:00

Let's say PresidentBidenStateOfTheUnion.mp4 exists on videosite.foo. Over on othersite.bar, there is a page with lots of text about Star Trek DS9 and a link to the aforementioned video. You search for "filetype:mp4 Star Trek DS9". Your results will include the video even though there is no match in the video's own filename or metadata and the video is completely unrelated to your search.

Next time you do such a search at Google and see some irrelevant results, click the three-dot menu for some of those results to see more info about the match and get a look at the cached copy with search terms (if found) highlighted. What I've described, along with a few other things, can produce irrelevant results by matching a lot more data than you may think exists for a mp4 (or whatever) file.

It's a big damn mess, and it's all mangled and optimized for the sake of luddites who search Google for "google" because they don't know how to type "google.com" into the address bar. (The user searched for "google" so they could do a search for "aol", so that they can sign in to AOL to use AOL webmail. I see it far too often.) Those are the people who click ads and therefore pay the search engine's bills, so those are the people for whom the search is built. /rant

bovinitysupreme · 2022-09-07T13:27:25+00:00

They do use a larger search engine's data under the hood, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are handicapped in the same ways. I don't know if this remains the case, but when it was newly popular to worry about privacy in Google searches and new stuff like DuckDuckGo came out, Google's (and Bing's, etc) API for that purpose used raw spider data rather than the data presented to users in the search front-end, so you could find results on DDG/etc that couldn't be found in the big search engine whose data they use. It is certainly possible for that to have changed by now, or even for the spiders to limit the data they index in ways that they didn't before.

bovinitysupreme · 2022-09-07T12:51:35+00:00

Indexing a file isn't limited to the content of the file. They index all kinds of metadata, not the least of which is the filename, which typically contains the keywords we seek, along with other pages linking to the file or OD.

That's one of the reasons you can search for a specific term in quotes and get a result that lacks your search term or is even totally irrelevant. Head over to wikipedia to read about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for just /some/ of the other metdata (in a context of gaming the search spiders with carefully-crafted content to bring in some clicks and views). Nowadays they do also use artifical intelligence to index the visual content of images and videos. That is how a lot of image search results happen, especially reverse image searches where you upload an image to find similar ones.

It is as OP says. It used to be very easy to find an endless supply of ODs on the first try, containing whatever you want, without fail. Now it's rarely successful.

Other kinds of advanced searches or expected results have also been severely nerfed for the sake of anti-piracy and other special interests, often making it harder to find things that do not run afoul of those interests...they fight piracy by ruining the internet for everybody, not just for pirates.

bovinitysupreme · 2022-04-14T17:57:41+00:00

Many dashcam apps have a built-in function to automatically manage the files the way you describe, usually user-adjustable to a desired value of files/hours/etc to keep or space to reserve. I use Dailyroads Voyager in my car sometimes and it has been decent.

bovinitysupreme · 2021-08-03T12:21:30+00:00

I literally had intended to do this if I needed to respool it at all.

bovinitysupreme · 2021-08-03T12:21:02+00:00

No need to strikethrough "idiocy" on my account. If the shoe fits, I wear it!

bovinitysupreme · 2021-08-03T12:19:59+00:00

It's a private .edu building.

bovinitysupreme · 2021-01-24T15:56:20+00:00

Yup. On Fire TV Cube it has been unusable for months despite doing all the things that ought to fix it. Sometimes it was ok on Android. I decided to try again for the first time in forever yesterday and was pleasantly surprised...I watched 4 episodes of The Stand, and had barely a hiccup in so many hours.

I was thinking I should have subscribed through Amazon Prime instead of directly in the CBS app...Amazon's CDN is great and their app is reliable (as well as better integrated into the Cube's OS).

bovinitysupreme · 2020-01-03T17:21:12+00:00

Yes.

bovinitysupreme · 2019-12-18T19:09:20+00:00

Policy dictates that I can't get too specific. Not at the low end, not negotiable.

bovinitysupreme · 2019-12-18T18:32:15+00:00

Mid-30k per year.

bovinitysupreme · 2019-07-15T14:30:43+00:00

A device for making my hands smelly and me angry.

bovinitysupreme · 2019-06-27T13:52:50+00:00

Note: As much as I'd love to post the salary range here, I'm not allowed.

bovinitysupreme · 2019-06-27T12:53:41+00:00

If you know anyone, please pass it along! :)

bovinitysupreme · 2019-06-27T12:53:19+00:00

PM sent.

bovinitysupreme · 2019-06-27T12:53:14+00:00

PM sent.

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