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I wonder, is this gonna be something originally filmed in 4:3 but released at 16:9 (because that's how everything is made today), and by doing so, do things such as exposing parts of the set that were never intended to be included in the frame? Or by zooming into the picture and then cutting out parts of the top and bottom...?
Or are they gonna get ballsy and release it as it was filmed, and have to explain to those who don't know any better why they have black bars on either side of their screens...
I like the widescreen aspect ratio, but not if it means the picture no longer respects how it was originally intended to be seen.
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Good questions. They say it’s remastered, but not if includes changing the aspect ratio. The video looks like they’re going with the “black bars on the sides” choice though.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The video looks like they’re going with the “black bars on the sides” choice though.
So, as it was originally recorded/broadcast. Good. That means nothing gets arbitrarily removed.
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really weird but strangely entertaining
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I just jumped through bits and pieces of this. Some no-budget sci-fi set, some singing (including My Way), Vulcan wigs bought at a discount store, a chick with big boobs, a laugh track, and I even saw some footage of the Enterprise from the original Star Trek series doing a fly-by.
WTF did I just watch?
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The Belgian comedian "Kamagurka" known for his absurd style of humor is behind all this, haven't seen much of him lately, but he may still be making cartoons. It seems the times have changed and there is no place for such experiments on TV anymore ...
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RickZeeland wrote: there is no place for such experiments on TV anymore ...
Air time is at a premium, considering the competition. Can you really blame the broadcasters?
Today something like that might find success on YouTube. But I wonder[*] if they'd make back enough to cover whatever production costs (ahem) were involved.
[*] Not really, I think I already know the answer to that.
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I always enjoyed the early series, but once Blake left it sort of lost its mojo a bit.
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Halp! I'm lost in rectangles! (not actually a request for help, just a rant)
I've got this
draw::image(destination,destination_rectangle,source_image,source_rectangle,&clip_rectangle);
template<typename Destination>
gfx_result image_draw_cb(const image_data& data, void* state) {
image_cb_state<Destination>& s=*(image_cb_state<Destination>*)state;
if(data.is_fill) {
srect16 sr = *data.fill.bounds;
if(sr.intersects(s.src_rect)) {
if(s.clip!=nullptr) {
sr=sr.crop(s.clip);
}
return draw::filled_rectangle(*s.dst,sr,data.fill.color);
}
}
return draw::bitmap(*s.dst,data.bitmap.region->bounds().offset(data.bitmap.location),*data.bitmap.region,data.bitmap.region->bounds());
}
which is the starting point of what i need but not accurate.
Basically i've got several locations and bounds that have to offset and crop each other in order to make image drawing work, and I can't wrap my head around it.
I will eventually - I've dealt with worse - a dirty rectangle system in my UI library, but it just frustrates me that thinking in shapes is like a hole in my intellectual abilities. It slows me down, trips me up and makes me struggle.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
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I was playing with XNA a long time ago and was doing a space thing where multiple transparent images of stars would be stacked to do parallax.
The images were screen sized. They would wrap the screen so if the focal point (player) went a pixel left, the far right column of pixels would wrap to the left. This gets more complicated on diagonals.
I had to grab a ruler and mark up a physical sheet of paper to work out the code for how to cut the rectangles and glue them back together in real time so that one image could be infinitely scrolled any direction.
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We're all getting older here. I'm 65, my parents have passed, my MIL is 86 and is mentally gone. My FIL (88) is hanging in there, and thank God, he's starting to get some sleep - MIL broke her hip 3 weeks ago. We've had time to pull him back from the brink, but he's showing his age. Hopefully sleep will help him over time.
This is pure hell, and I'm just the son in law. I'm just tossing this out here since we have some real veterans here, and maybe you are dealing with this as well. If so, hang in there.
 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Sorry to hear that man. Wish I could relate, but my thoughts are with you.
Jeremy Falcon
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Charlie, I've been where you are. My mother was diagnosed with dementia. I spent the next eight months living with and caring for her. Moments spent laughing over shared memories and watching the Little League World Series were balanced by nights trying and failing to soothe her hallucinations. Incontinence and its indignities. Days when she slept for 20 hours straight and days when she didn't sleep at all. Explaining to 911 first responders for the third time in two weeks why they'd received hysterical calls from her house (they were very understanding and kind) when my mother forgot I was there and I had fallen asleep on a couch. It finally ended when she had a stroke and passed ten days later.
The saving graces during this time were my mother's neighbors who were always there to help and my boss who let me work from my mother's home when I could.
Please take care, and I hope for the best for your wife and yourself as you navigate this ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: It finally ended when she had a stroke and passed ten days later.
Sorry to hear that man. Hope the good memories will shine on forever. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Jeremy Falcon
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Thanks Jeremy.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I'm the same vintage as you can sympathize. Caring for aging parents is a labor of love. Hang in there. In an odd way, caring for the ones you love gives you the inner strength to continue to do be able to do that.
/ravi
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Sorry to hear, hang in there.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I've related bits and pieces of my story before on here, but suffice it to say my mom had to be moved into a nursing home due to the progression of her Alzheimer's, barely into her 70s. That was in February 2020. The move didn't go all that well, but what can you do? My dad's doctor told him either she had to be placed, or stress would get him first.
3 weeks later, everybody went full r*t**d with Covid and locked everything down. They did not allow any visitor for months. When they finally did reopen, my mom couldn't recognize anyone, wasn't aware she had children, and most of the time couldn't even recall her own name.
I maintain the firm belief that how they handled Covid precipitated my mother's rapid decline.
To say this disease sucks is an understatement. It's eating away at my dad.
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No easy answer. Went through same with MIL and wife's aunt. Both wound up in nursing homes. Fortunately, the aunt's husband (predeceased her) did OK investing. He was B-17 gunner in WWII, badly wounded but managed to run his own business after the war. Prince of a man. Never knew he was in combat until helping with all the paperwork when we went to bring the aunt here. Like many, he didn't talk about it. He did amazing stone work.
Like I said, no easy way unless you have a load of money.
Hang in there, good sense of humor helps a (very) little.
FWIIW, I am trying to make sure we don't do the same to our children.
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Sorry to hear about your fight, but yes, you are not alone 
[google translated]
My mother (90), (I'm 61), has been suffering from dementia for several years.
Up until now, she has lived independently in our parents' house, given the circumstances, and has managed quite well. This is because of the care provided by professinal home care and also by us children and our partners.
At the beginning of this year, she unfortunately suffered a heart attack and had to be admitted to hospital.
After she had recovered from this heart attack, she went to a rehabilitation clinic. There they realized that it would be difficult for my mother to be able to live independently in her house again.
Understandably, she resisted this massively and (at the age of 90) started doing some stupid things (ordering a taxi home, demonstratively lying on the floor, etc.) to get her to go home again.
She was then moved to a ward for dementia patients. It breaks my heart, I have only visited her there twice since the beginning of this year... Why? I can't stand being there, it feels like I'm in a madhouse!
My only consolation is that my mother doesn't really realise all of this and lives mostly in her own world. Hopefully not just an excuse to ease my conscience!
I hope my mother can forgive me for this, she has always taken very selfless care of us children in very difficult times and I'm just letting her down 
And yes, I would do everything I could to ensure that she can live at home again. But unfortunately she does not accept that this means that she will be cared for by nursing staff around the clock. She is so narrow-minded 
modified 22-Aug-24 16:02pm.
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Sorry,
Watching my wife go thru this with her dad has sucked for the last year. He sometimes knows things and other times wants to divorce his wife (who has been gone for years), because she hasn't come to visit him.
It absolutely sucks.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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We have been lucky in that both our mothers lived into their 90s and were mentally fine right to the end. Now approaching the same thresholds (I'm 80 next June) our main worry is whether this will affect either or both of us.
Incidentally we have quite a few friends where one partner is a sufferer.
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I feel your pain - my MIL died of Alzheimer's and I'm concerned for my wife who is showing signs of no short-term memory retention.
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