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My wife and I returned last week from a nine night stay on The Big Island -- an early celebration of our 35th wedding anniversary. We stayed two nights at Volcano House in the national park, and the rest of the time in the Kona / Waikoloa area. Unfortunately, there were no active eruptions at...

I have the link https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/ set as my home page. An hour or so ago, when accessing that page I am no longer logged into the forum. Attempting to login generates the error message "Oops. We ran into some problems. Security error occurred. Please press back, refresh...

I ran into a strange problem with a Roku Express at my mother's condo, and was wondering if anyone had any ideas about the issue. She has a Roku Express, 1080p display, and a Comcast Xfinity Internet service with a provided cable modem / router / wifi box. All devices are on the same TV stand in...

Diabilok DVD is currently having a sale on Arrow BD and UHD releases through 10/3/22. The prices for the titles I checked were better than Amazon, the site has $5 bulk shipping on your entire order, and they do not charge sales tax. I picked up three UHD titles -- 12 Monkeys, An American...

In 2019, a local historian made a film documentary on my hometown -- Plymouth, Michigan. The film covers the entire history of the town, from it's beginning in 1825 up to now. It's a terrific look at life in a small, Midwestern town. One of the local residents who is interviewed several times in...

I am getting the error message "Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue" when attempting to connect to https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/ via Firefox for Windows. Selecting the advanced tab indicates there is a certificate issue. I was able to post this using Firefox on my Samsung...

As some of you may know, my father passed away back in December. As we were going through all of my parents possessions during the process of moving my mother from northern Michigan to a condo near us in southeastern Michigan, I came across a plethora of old 35mm slides that my father had taken...

Has anyone tried playing the 4K/ Dolby Vision version of Spaceballs on iTunes? I played the film last night via my Apple 4K TV and Vizio M70-D3 display, and three times during the film the picture got very dark and greenish, as if the encoding was screwed up. It would happen only for one camera...

I know hockey isn't very popular on this board, but this is an incredible story. In last night's Carolina Hurricanes versus Toronto Maple Leafs game in Toronto, both Canes goalies were injured during the game. Since Carolina was the road team, they had to resort to dressing Toronto's emergency...

I have never owned a laptop for personal use, although I had a Microsoft Surface when I was still working (plus access to various Windows laptops if I needed one). Since we are traveling more since I retired, I thought having something simple would be nice instead of trying to do everything on...

I mentioned elsewhere that my wife and I recently returned from a cruise around Iceland through Smithsonian Journeys on a 184 passenger ship. This was to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. We saw lots of interesting things, and were very lucky with the weather -- foggy/overcast for the...

I am not sure how many golfers we have out there on the forum, but I thought it would be nice to have a thread for those of us who chase that little white ball around. :) I have been playing for the past 45 years, and my handicap now fluctuates between 10 and 12.

We just returned from a trip to northern Minnesota -- specifically Voyageurs National Park near International Falls, and the North Shore of Lake Superior (we were based in Beaver Bay). I brought along all three cameras (Canon 5D3, 7D2 and M50) plus a bunch of lenses, since it was a driving trip...

Free agency has begun, so it's time for a new thread.

Adobe has announced their new version of Lightroom, and it will only be available via their cloud-based subscription service. There will be no standalone version of Lightroom -- the current version 6 is the last standalone versions and will only be supported through the end of this year. I...

Preseason is winding down, so it's time for a new season thread.

We recently traveled to Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park, and Baxter State Park in the state of Maine. On the way home, we stopped in Montreal, Quebec. Things did not go according to plan in Maine. Foggy weather for 3 days cancelled our plans for whale watching in Bar Harbor, and despite...

I just bought the 4K UHD version of Lucy and redeemed the UV code on Vudu (the disc was on sale at Amazon and Best Buy last week for $15). That site now shows that I own the UHD version of the film -- not the HDX version as previous 4K UHD discs have. And even better news, on Vudu it also now...

I was attending a USA Hockey national team game on Saturday evening (we have season tickets), and both myself and the person sitting next to me were watching the Michigan - Iowa football game via the Watch ESPN app on our phones during the hockey game. I have an Android phone and he has an...

Last season's thread did not get a lot of traffic, but I thought I would give it another try this season. My Habs are off to a decent start, earning 7 out of 8 possible points in their first four games. Carey Price was finally back between the pipes last night after missing almost all of last...

The "Forum List" in the upper left hand position of the page has stopped working for me -- both on my desktop running Windows 7 & Firefox, my Android phone running Chrome, and my work Microsoft Surface running Windows 10 + IE 11. I just get a blank white space instead of the forum list when I...

We just returned from a northern Michigan trip which included a four day stay at Isle Royale National Park, which is located in Lake Superior and requires a 54 mile, 3.5 hour ferry ride from Copper Harbor, Michigan to get to the park. It's actually closer to the northern Ontario shoreline (near...

The regular season began last night, so it's time for a new thread.

We recently returned from a week long visit to Yellowstone National Park. This was my 6th visit to the park. The haze from the wildfires well west of the park did create quite a bit of haze, which reduced the landscape photo opportunities. Wildlife viewing was different, too, as this is the...

A final, sad goodbye. We said goodbye to our hometown Plymouth Whalers, in an emotional final home game for the franchise as they become the Flint Firebirds next season. The arena was completely sold out - including standing room - with an announced crowd of 4,070 (where were all these people...

On Saturday night, my hometown Plymouth Whalers of the Ontario Hockey League held their 7th annual Pink Out game to benefit the Karmanos Cancer Institute. This year, along with the usual pink uniforms and pink dyed hair, a local car dealership covered the cost to turn the ice pink. I brought...

I've had Hill Street Blues on price watch for awhile. It is the Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day at $79.99.

With the new NHL season almost upon us, it's time for a new thread. I have not followed much of what has happened in the Western Conference, but the East should be a pretty wide open battle this season. Pittsburgh and Boston have both lost a few players (and the Penguins still have the very...

My wife and I spent two weeks in Alaska at the beginning of July -- one week on land, and another taking a cruise via the Inner Passage. Highlights of the trip included some beautiful views of Mt. McKinley, and an amazing whale watching excursion in Juneau where we were lucky enough to witness...

I posted this in the "Books read in 2013" thread in After Hours, but someone suggested it get posted here, too. A co-worker of mine has self-published his first book, and it is available for free this weekend on Amazon at the following link. I have not read it yet, but thought I would help out...