Rich

I think this was the post where Booch posted his credentials. It is the internet, you always need to take what people post with a grain of a salt, but I have personally always appreciated Booch's insights and comments, and glad he chooses to be an active member here.

Nice off season practice pad Duchene has going for him.

NFL begins the transition to full time referees. Can the CFL afford to do the same? Can they afford not to?

It sure was true with the music recording industry. One off examples are fine in the current landscape. I'm talking about a continuing trend where people end up paying more overall for content then they are today. And that will hurt the industry overall. I have no problem with corporations making money. I call them greedy when I believe they start to push the boundaries of what they do will ultimately be detrimental to their long term profits and business model. That isn't smart, that is self destructive. So yes, if I owned Disney stock, I wouldn't be thrilled with this move. They just spent $1.5 Billion to acquire the technology to do this. Time well tell if this will recoup that investment. It is pretty obvious from that article they are putting feelers out there to see just how far they can milk this with people. Push too far and people will go to cheaper competing products, especially when a younger generation is already tuning you out and watching "non commercially developed" personalities on YouTube over traditional media. Agree. I think they are going down a path that will take them to a place where consumers ultimately say I have had enough.

And this is what I'm talking about. It has gone from a all Disney content to possibly different subs for Marvel, Disney and Star Wars even though they are all owned by Disney. https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/marvel-and-star-wars-standalone-streaming-services-are-still-being-considered-says-disney/?ncid=mobilerecirc_featured Greedy corporations will push and push until the cunulative cost just doesn't make sense and people will go to illegal ways to watch. They learnt nothing from record labels.

Don't disagree with this, it is kind of my point. It will be whoever can offer the most compelling content including archival and original content. There has been original content that has interested me on platforms competing with Netflix but not enough interest to pay and go watch it . So I just don't watch it. Im not going to pay their subscription prices to get access to one or two series I may or may not want to see. As to archival footage, I mostly watch documentaries or "something" to have on as background noise. Maybe watch a movie I haven't seen yet Though if I haven't seen it by the time Netflix gets it, it probably means my interest level isn't super high on it and could take it or leave it.

This is going to be the problem, for quite a while now, people have been paying the cable / satellite companies for both internet access and TV. This has allowed them to basically split their costs between the two services. Now as people move to paying individual content providers, they decide they can cut out the TV portion of their cable bill and move to all internet. Screw the cable companies, they’ve been gouging customers forever! The infrastructure and ongoing costs of the cable companies aren’t going to go down because you don’t subscribe to their TV anymore. If a large portion of their subscribers cut out half of their bill due to leaving TV behind, cable companies are going to be forced to increase the price of internet. They can’t survive losing half their revenue. And now you need to pay for individual services on top of that. There is a limit to how much people will spend on their home entertainment costs every month. If your internet is now costing you the same or similar to what your internet and TV used to cost, how much more are you going to pay for each of these a la carte services? Now throw in a new generation who don’t care all that much of the classic TV model and are growing up with their viewing habits where they get their entertainment from YouTube channels, and all of these individualized services aren’t going to all survive. Sure Disney has a good shot at surviving, but some of these companies making the jump better be sure they really have a competitive advantage. HBO probably does as well because people have already been paying an extra $10 - $15 a month for them forever. Netflix was the first and that gives them a huge advantage. I pay for Netflix. If the cable model completely disappears, I’d probably pay to watch the Jets and Bombers. I’m not going to pay for many more on top of that. If someone wants to pull me away from Netflix, their original content better be very compelling, not going to pay you an additional $10 a month if you only have one or two shows I want to watch. Way different then the move from 6 to 50 channels. Cable companies were able to bundle a bunch of channels for $5 - $6 bucks a month. Most of those new TV Channels made money through commercials, not what you paid your cable company. This model has you paying $10 a month for one service and the expectation has been set that there is no commercials, so whatever they take in from their subscribers needs to pay the bills. Or it moves to a hybrid approach where commercials get introduced back into programming, not sure that would fly at this point.

Don't like this news at all. All of these streaming services cannot co-exist. Even Netflix and its competitors who stream content from multiple content owners and trying to create their own original content to differentiate, can't survive. $10 here $7 there $8 for that other thing all add up. The more fractured and segregated content delivery becomes, the more people will resort to pirating content. I think most people will pay a reasonable amount for the convenience and ease of use. As soon as you see the monthly bill starting to add up, things like Kodi become a lot more attractive.

Picks this week need to be in by Thursday @ 6:30 PM.

Looks like you have some other weird formatting around it that got picked up when you copied it. It can't be a link when you paste it in for it to auto convert, it has to just be text. Either paste it in a text editor program or email to get rid of the formatting first, or paste it in here, highlight it in the editor here and play with the remove formatting button (The Tx).

What was the URL you were trying to use?

A number of people have complained about this. Going to try and beef up the ram of the chat server for next game, see if that fixes the problem.

Not trying to mess @iHeart up here but I've found the "new" version of the old theme. Turns out either the company changed their name or someone else took it over. Still not exactly the same as before as there have a number of changes and improvements over the couple of years since I last updated it. There was some issues with the "finishings" on the other theme and wasn't getting the responses I wanted. Overall, I think this is just a sharper look. I still need to figure some things out with the header, but this should be starting to feel more familiar.

It looks like a core IP Board bug, not related to the theme. I will have to report it to them.' Edit: Maybe not, I can get it to work if I go back to the default theme, let me know if you got this notification. @Atomic

Don't think I have control over that.

Yeah. It's the same setting.

Game time is 6:00 PM local. The 3 - 2 Bombers take on the 1 - 4 defending Grey Cup champions. Looks to be a humid day in Ottawa with temperatures at 26 degrees Celsius come game time, feeling like 34. 60% chance of rain increasing to 80% by the time the game ends. Could be a hot wet game. Bombers need this win to keep pace with the West and keep Ottawa down for that important cross over spot. Ottawa needs this win to get their season back on track. Going to be a fun one in the Nation's capital tonight!

I found this setting, but it turns out it also puts a box in the header to show where you are. See the box around the Forums link in the header right now. I tried the blue but it doesn't look any better then the black that is there right now. The box was hidden before because it was gold on gold. I don't really care for the box in the header. Curious what other people think.

No, it is still the new site. Just been tweaking it.

It never went away, they just changed how it works. If you have a thread with new posts that you haven't read yet, there is a circle that appears on the left side of the thread. If you click the circle, it will take you to the first unread post. This works on both desktop and mobile.

Just an update, these haven't been forgotten and are still on my radar with a couple of other tweaks I'm working on that I'd like to make (like the background image showing on tweets). There about a billion customization options with no instructions of what they all mean, so it is a bit trial and error of changing one or a couple of things and trying to figure out how it affects the site.

I think I've fixed the ad problem. The mobile version shouldn't extend out past the width of your screen anymore. It was the ad that was extending out, but I've changed the ad to be responsive, seems to have fixed it. There was an overhaul to the embed functionality with the 4.2 release. New setting to cap the width of embeds. I've set it to 1200 px. This is really going to be monitor dependant (though it will auto scale down if you have a smaller screen) This won't change previously embedded content, only new content. Let me know if 1200 looks too large as well.