Weekly RoundUp 7-28-2009

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7/25/09 at 8:28pm

Mike Frezon
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The Features

– Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion – 1965)

– Michelle Rodriguez (Fast & Furious – 2009)

– Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse: Season 1 – 2009)

– Raquel Alessi (Miss March – 2009)

– Tricia Helfer & Grace Park (Battlestar Galactica)

– The 10th Victim – 1965

The Prices

SD-DVD TITLE	Amazon	BestBuy	Target	Costco

The 10th Victim	$12.99	$12.99
An American Affair	$19.99	$19.99
Angel of Death	$19.99	$19.99
Astonishing Work of Tezuka Osamu	$26.99	$24.99
Bad Lieutenant SE	$14.99	$14.99
Bart Got a Room	$16.99	$16.99
Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5	$31.99	$31.99	$34.99	$31.99
Battlestar Galactica: Comp. Series	$171.99	$199.99		$164.99
Charles in Charge: Season 5	$26.99
Combat Shock	$14.99	$14.99
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead	$10.49	$12.99
Dollhouse: Season 1	$29.99	$31.99	$34.99	$31.79
The Donna Reed Show: Season 2	$34.99
Dragonball: Evolution	$14.99	$14.99	$19.99
Eagles Over London	$26.99
Early Edition: Season 2	$34.49	$34.99
Fast & Furious (2009) (1-disc)	$16.99	$14.99	$15.99	$18.99
Fast & Furious SE (2009) (2-disc)	$22.99	$22.99	$22.99
Fast & Furious Movie Collection	$42.99	$44.99
The Fifth Commandment	$19.99	$19.99
Green Hornet (Serial)	$24.99	$24.99
Green Hornet Strikes Again (Serial)	$26.99	$24.99
Green Lantern - 1st Flight (1-disc)	$13.99	$12.99	$12.99
Green Lantern - 1st Flight SE (2-disc)	$16.99	$19.99	$16.99
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29	$19.99	$24.99
Knight Rider: Season 1 (2008)	$41.99	$49.99
Life on Mars: Series 1	$44.99	$49.99
The Middleman: Complete Series	$27.99	$29.99
Miss March (NR)	$14.99	$14.99
Necessary Evil	$24.99	$24.99
Repulsion (CC)	$27.99	$34.99
Spectacular Spider-man: Season 1	$18.99	$18.99
Streets of Blood	$14.99	$14.99
Torso	$12.99	$12.99
Torchwood: Children of Earth	$15.49	$19.99

BLU-RAY TITLE	Amazon	BestBuy	Target	Costco
2 Fast & 2 Furious	$20.99	$24.99	$22.99
12 Monkeys	$20.99
Bad Boy Bubby	$19.99	$29.99
Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5	$43.99	$39.99	$44.99	$43.99
Battlestar Galactica: Comp. Series	$209.99	$209.99		$229.99
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead	$13.99	$19.99
Dollhouse: Season 1	$47.99	$44.99	$44.99
Dragonball: Evolution	$26.99	$26.99	$26.99
Eagles Over London	$19.99
Fast & Furious SE (2009)	$21.49	$24.99	$25.99	$26.99
The Fast & The Furious	$22.49	$24.99	$22.99
Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift	$20.99	$24.99	$22.99
Green Lantern: First Flight	$19.99	$24.99	$22.99
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29	$19.99	$29.99
Inglorious Bastards	$19.99	$24.99
Miss March	$26.99	$26.99
Repulsion (CC)	$19.99	$34.99
A River Runs Through It	$26.99	$29.99
This is Spinal Tap	$21.99	$21.99
Torchwood: Season 2	$54.99	$69.99
Torchwood: Children of Earth	$24.49	$19.99

(CC) after a title = New release in the Criterion Collection.

The Disclaimer

Standard disclaimer: All prices are taken from the websites of each chain, or from their printed Sunday advertisements. All prices are subject to change by each chain. Prices and inventory in-store may or may not match the website price.

I, obviously, cannot include EVERY title released in a given week in the RoundUp. The titles included are those that I am interested in...as well as those which I consider will be of interest to a majority of consumers (and sometimes I’ll miss one!). I don't get paid for this, and I don't have the time to list every DVD. So, please don't complain! If there is a title not included in the RoundUp that you want to see, PLEASE just look it up yourself, and be nice enough to post and share the results with everyone!

Note that I cannot include Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club prices in the RoundUp. They set prices at individual stores based on nearby competition, so there is no way I can say here what price you'll find at YOUR local Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club location. And, Circuit City is still out of business...even in Hawaii (where they NEVER guaranteed their prices anyway).

The Specials

--Best Buy, this week, has an ACTION FIGURE attached to its SE DVD and Blu-ray versions of Green Lantern: First Flight.

--Best Buy also has an EXCLUSIVE LIMITED EDITION version of Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5 (with dog tags and book) for $39.99.

--If you are interested in picking up a few of the older Fast & Furious films on Blu-ray, Best Buy has a 2/$35 deal going on this week.

--Best Buy also has some great Blu-ray deals on some catalog titles:

$9.99: Unforgiven, V for Vendetta.

$14.99: Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Kill Bill 2, Notorious, Revolutionary Road, Slumdog Millionaire, Taken, The Wrestler.

$19.99: National Treasure, No Country For Old Men.

--Best Buy Odds and Ends: A number of DVD titles for $6.99 & $12.99.

--Target, this week, is advertising a FREE $10 TARGET GIFTCARD with the purchase of the Blu-ray version of Fast and Furious (2009) with ANY Blu-ray version of any of the first three Fast & Furious films. Quantities limited. Terms and conditions apply to giftcards.

--Target also has its own Deluxe edition of Fast and Furious (2009) on DVD. It includes an EXCLUSIVE CD SOUNDTRACK.

--Target Odds and Ends: None to report.

There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!

Top Ten Ways to Find Good Deals on DVDs and Blu-ray...

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7/25/09 at 8:57pm

Patrick Sun
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Best Buy on sale DVD items:

$7 each:
Juno
Jumper
Horton
Hitman

$13 each:
Hulk
Wanted

Watchmen $20

Blu-ray:

$10 each:
Unforgiven
V for Vendetta

$15 each:
Revolutionary Road
Benjamin Button
Kill Bill 2
Taken
The Wrestler
Notorious
Slumdog Millionaire

$20 each:
No Country For Old Men
National Treasure

$25:
This is Spinal Tap

$27:
Watchmen

---------

Target on sale DVD items:

$10 each (and others):
Spider-Man 3
The Bank Job
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Sweet Home Alabama
The Bucket List
Three Musketees (Disney)

Edited by Patrick Sun - 7/26/2009 at 04:09 am GMT

"Jee-sus, it's like Iwo Jima out there" - Roger Sterling on "Mad Men"
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7/25/09 at 9:12pm

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Hmmm. If that selection of pictures is any indication, this is going to be a great week for releases.

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7/25/09 at 9:15pm

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Fine round up of ladies...i mean discs!

Anyway, big week. Doctor Who, Torchwood, and i was gonna get Galactica on Blu. Not so sure now. I dont think i want the compete set. Not with crappy cardboard slip pockets. Not for $200, anyway. Might have to check it out in store, or get 4.5 on Blu, for now.

Thanks as always guys!

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7/25/09 at 10:03pm

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my jedi senses tell me theres a theme going on with those pics lol.

wanting the box set for galactica but balking at the price. have their been any news on the other seasons being released?

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7/25/09 at 10:30pm

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It's odd that A River Runs Through It is getting a BRD release so soon. The SD-DVD is generally a $5 disc in the bargain bins.

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7/26/09 at 1:05am

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Mike...I guess you should re-title this thread "Weekly RoundUp - The Hotties Edition"

......nice selection indeed.

My top selection will be The Galactica Boxset followed by Fast & Furious: both on Blu-ray.

Also plan to get the following BDs eventually....

Green Lantern: First Flight
Torchwood: Season 2
Torchwood: Children Of Earth
12 Monkeys

Very big week for me....

Recently watched- The Mummy(1999)[BD], The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe[BD], You Don't Mess With The Zohan[BD], Patriot Games, Groundhog Day[BD]

Currently watching- Heroes: Season 1[BD], SNL 1976-1977: Season 2, Rome: The Complete Series[BD]

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7/26/09 at 5:44am

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Ordering Green Lantern from DD later in the week, with the BSG Blu set to follow in November.

We're going to BB so I can pick up just a...few...yeah, a few...of the $15 BD's. Revolutionary Road, Benjamin Button, The Wrestler, Taken. Looks like another good week for filling the "holes" in the collection.

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7/26/09 at 6:10am

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How did I miss the announcement of Repulsion Criterion being released? Thanks Mike....you made my week!

Please release The Goodies on Region 1 DVD
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7/26/09 at 7:08am

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To quote Borat in regards to the lovely ladies posted...wa wa wee wa! :)

BSG this week for me, along with The Wrestler. Tempted on Benjamin Button. $15 is a nice price on any Criterion Blu-ray.

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7/26/09 at 8:08am

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I'd love to get the complete BSG on Blu... even thought I might do it now with the Deep Discount sale, but things are a bit tight, so I think I am just gonna get the DVD of season 4.5 to complete my collection and wait on the big honkin' set. Hey, maybe in a year or so they'll have the really really complete version with "The Plan" and the missing webisodes.

Based on the pic alone, I may have to check out "Repulsion"

Thanks guys!

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7/26/09 at 9:56am

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I'll be picking up the Battlestar Galactica set. It's alot of money all at once but the 5 (or more) individual sets will end costing more than the series set. Especially since S2 and S3 have about 20 episodes so there's no chance that they'll be $40 a piece.

Thanks for the prices, guys!

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7/26/09 at 12:39pm

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I've heard alot about Repulsion so I might make that a rental, otherwise nothing for me.

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7/26/09 at 1:24pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by EricSchulz

I've heard alot about Repulsion so I might make that a rental, otherwise nothing for me.

Don't forget Barnes & Noble currently has 50% off all Criterion DVD and Blu-Ray titles (online or in-store). Most are $19.99 or less (including 'Repulsion') through August 2 (or $17.99 each of you have a B&N Membership).

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7/26/09 at 1:42pm

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I held off on picking up "Battlestar" 4.0 after the split season release for season 2 was followed up with a complete season release. Any chance of that happening for season four, as well?

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7/26/09 at 2:45pm

Mike Frezon
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Quote:

Originally Posted by FranklinC

Hmmm. If that selection of pictures is any indication, this is going to be a great week for releases.

Quote:

Originally Posted by RickER

Fine round up of ladies...i mean discs!

Quote:

Originally Posted by SVTStingRay

my jedi senses tell me theres a theme going on with those pics lol.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joseph J.D

Mike...I guess you should re-title this thread "Weekly RoundUp - The Hotties Edition"

......nice selection indeed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shawn.F

To quote Borat in regards to the lovely ladies posted...wa wa wee wa! :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ric Easton

Based on the pic alone, I may have to check out "Repulsion"

And I was wondering if anyone was going to notice!

There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!

Top Ten Ways to Find Good Deals on DVDs and Blu-ray...

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7/26/09 at 2:55pm

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Best Buy also has a $12.99 Paramount Blu-ray promotion going on today through August 22. I can't remember all of the included titles, but I know that The Truman Show, Election, Trading Places, Payback:DC, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, U2: Rattle & Hum, The Manchurian Candidate, Black Snake Moan, Black Rain, and World Trade Center were amongst them.

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7/26/09 at 3:16pm

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Just to get clarification on something, Mike has the Spinal Tap BD listed at Best Buy for $21.99, while Patrick shows it being listed at BB for 25? Just wondering which is correct. Judging by B&M BD prices, I'm betting on the $25 price.

STOP HIM! He's supposed to die!

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7/26/09 at 4:11pm

Mike Frezon
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Good question, Will.

The $21.99 price I got from BestBuy.com. See it HERE.

Patrick's probably is the price you'll find in-store from the flyer. You MAY be able, however, to get a cooperative customer service rep. to pricematch for you!

There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!

Top Ten Ways to Find Good Deals on DVDs and Blu-ray...

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7/26/09 at 7:52pm

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Thanks Mike,

Should be ok then, I've never had a problem at Best Buy yet with getting a price match with the website price.

STOP HIM! He's supposed to die!

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7/26/09 at 8:15pm

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Some pretty tempting prices on Blu-rays, but then again, seems like we've been getting a lot of them lately.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike Frezon

Good question, Will.

The $21.99 price I got from BestBuy.com. See it HERE.

Patrick's probably is the price you'll find in-store from the flyer. You MAY be able, however, to get a cooperative customer service rep. to pricematch for you!

Unless it says online only and won't allow you to do an in-store pickup for the order, I'd think you can always go the route of in-store pickup after ordering online for the better price.

BTW, thanks for the new formatting, Mike. That works a lot better for us IE6 users (as well as IE7 users who use lower res setups).

RE: the small nitpick about the pics issue I mentioned in the previous weekly update thread, maybe the resizing issue here is somehow caused/triggered by the couple of broken pic links -- the ones that are not hosted by HTF. Just a guess.

_Man_

Edited by Man-Fai Wong - 7/27/2009 at 03:31 am GMT

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7/26/09 at 9:40pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Man-Fai Wong

RE: the small nitpick about the pics issue I mentioned in the previous weekly update thread, maybe the resizing issue here is somehow caused/triggered by the couple of broken pic links -- the ones that are not hosted by HTF. Just a guess.

?!?

Are there pictures you are not seeing, Man?

In this week's RoundUp...or last week's?

I believe I have been having the HTF host ALL of my pix for the past few weeks...ever since that very first week of the switchover.

There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!

Top Ten Ways to Find Good Deals on DVDs and Blu-ray...

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7/26/09 at 9:47pm

Mike Frezon
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Okay, you are saying that this week's pics are not sized correctly for IE6?!? (I just read your latest post in last week's WRU.)

I'll have to have Cristina explain that for me, because I used her formatting suggestions. I hate to derail my own thread on prices with formatting issues...but I need to understand what's going on. I am now starting to get perturbed with the compatibility issues. Even though they don't affect how I see the HTF (as I am a Firefox user), they are now affecting me since I have this weekly thread which cannot be seen by a number of my regular visitors.

I'm glad the tables are, at least, viewable by everyone...although I sure do wish I had more horizontal space for them. I absolutely hate having all the titles "bunch up" like they do and end up wrapping themselves onto a second line of text. There are also a number of other line spacing issues which make the WRUs about three times longer--vertically--than they used to be.

If anyone wants to chime in with their thoughts about how the "new" Roundup looks to them (since the switchover), I would love to hear about it.

There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!

Top Ten Ways to Find Good Deals on DVDs and Blu-ray...

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7/27/09 at 1:50am

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No love for Whedon's Dollhouse here? I may wait a few months for the price to drop, but I most certainly want Dollhouse on BluRay, and I am eager to see the unaired episodes, and hear whatever commentaries may be on the set. But I can wait until just before season 2 starts.

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7/27/09 at 5:57am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Will_B

No love for Whedon's Dollhouse here? I may wait a few months for the price to drop, but I most certainly want Dollhouse on BluRay, and I am eager to see the unaired episodes, and hear whatever commentaries may be on the set. But I can wait until just before season 2 starts.

Oh, plenty of love for it, but at $31 or $45 for a half season of episodes. I'll be waiting for the price drop or sale. If it happened before Christmas, great. If not, no biggie.

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7/27/09 at 8:10am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jason_V

Oh, plenty of love for it, but at $31 or $45 for a half season of episodes. I'll be waiting for the price drop or sale. If it happened before Christmas, great. If not, no biggie.

Yeah, I thought the show was fairly good overall but definitely not $45 for 13 episodes good.

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7/27/09 at 4:31pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike Frezon

?!?

Are there pictures you are not seeing, Man?

In this week's RoundUp...or last week's?

I believe I have been having the HTF host ALL of my pix for the past few weeks...ever since that very first week of the switchover.

Hmmm... Everything looks fine now, except for the 2 broken image links for pics hosted outside of HTF: they're the 2nd and 4th pics *after* (ie. not including) your roundup pic.

And sorry about the frustration, Mike.

_Man_

Just another amateur learning to paint w/ "the light of the world".

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7/27/09 at 5:49pm

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But there aren't any pics hosted outside of the forum. They're all hosted here.

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7/27/09 at 6:17pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Man-Fai Wong

Hmmm... Everything looks fine now, except for the 2 broken image links for pics hosted outside of HTF: they're the 2nd and 4th pics *after* (ie. not including) your roundup pic.

And sorry about the frustration, Mike.

_Man_

Quote:

Originally Posted by Will_B

But there aren't any pics hosted outside of the forum. They're all hosted here.

I took the liberty of investigating the problem with the two broken image links. Those were actually remnants left over from a template using the Weekly RoundUp from 7-7-2009 featuring Rose Bryne and Maria Montez. In that particular RoundUp, those images were fixed (apparently their original hosts do not permit inline linking); however, the HTML linking to those images was still in the template. It appears Firefox strips the broken image links but they were displaying in IE6. I went ahead and removed them from the 7-28 RoundUp and from the 7-21 RoundUp where they were also appearing.

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7/27/09 at 7:53pm

Mike Frezon
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This is frustrating.

So much for WYSIWYG. I was "getting something" that I couldn't "see." I had no idea that bit of detritus was carrying over from week-to-week. I didn't see any broken link images.

It seems as if there was a benefit to constructing the RoundUp each week within a template of vbulletin code. At least I knew how it would appear. I have been advised that I should construct the roundup on this platform using the WYSIWYG edit boxes...but now I'm not so sure. I guess maybe I should just learn HTML code and go back to my old way...although that paticular idea doesn't enthrall me either...although learning something new is not necessarily a bad thing. Maybe I can get a part time job as a "coder."

AND...it appears as if I'm going to have to make adjustments each week for IE 6 users. I guess I should have paid better attention to the discussions in the Feedback Forum about why the IE 6 users were fine in vbulletin but are not fine on the Huddler platform. Things aren't making much sense to me right now.

Man: Did you NOT see the Rodriguez and Alessi pix at all?!? Or, did you see them but then ALSO saw an image letting you know there was a broken link?

There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!

Top Ten Ways to Find Good Deals on DVDs and Blu-ray...

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