Irented a movie on Apple TV + on my phone (because easier checkout) but it is not showing up when I open Apple TV+ on my computer or TV. I also have tried casting it from my phone to the tv or computer and this doesn't work, even with a Mac. Please help I do not want to watch on my phone!
Is this a freaking joke? So I purchase a season of a show on my phone and can't watch on
tv.apple.com? Why in the world would Apple think this is a good idea? When I pay for a program, I should be able to watch ANYWHERE Apple TV is working!!!!!!!
Watching a "Columbo" episode recently (c.1971), it had a scene that I realized I used to see a lot in older movies and TV shows. A woman is talking on her rotary phone, when the person on the other end is suddenly cut off.
However not too much earlier, operators would have been used extensively when completing calls. Repeatedly pressing the hook would cause a light in the office to flash, directing the operator to pick up. Since the operator might be able to assist with some types of dropped connections, the learned response to an unexpectedly dead line would be to call her in by cycling the hook.
Actually, on rotary phones (and maybe on some early touch-tone phones), that 'hang-up' lever, if pressed quickly and lightly, would send a signal that was equivalent to the dialing the number one (or however many times you pressed it). It was actually possible to dial that way if you were careful (why would this be needed? well, say you were a child, and some silly adult had applied a lock to the rotary dial...). I tried it once, back in the day when I first heard about it, and it DID work.
Anyway, back in those days, if one party accidentally pressed the 'hang-up' lever, and then immediately released it, the connection was not necessarily closed. Sometimes, pressing the lever again would have the effect of 'bringing the connection back,' even though it was still there. This became an issue again when call-waiting was introduced...you might think you've hung up on someone, but actually one of you is in 'on the other line' without actually talking to anybody, and 'hanging up' again, would 'restore' the connection.
Phones can dial in three ways. Normal phones use Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (DTMF) dialing, where each number is a unique pair of two frequencies in a column x row manner. Cell phones use digital connections, but still use DTMF when the call is active so you can access an IVR.
Older phones use Pulse Dialing. Each number dialed actually breaks and makes the phone line connection n number of times. Real Rotary phones use this exclusively. Most normal phones have a switch that allow you to switch between DTMF and Pulse. This is still supported even in 2015. In the movie Hackers, one of the characters uses this to make an unauthorized call while in jail, by pressing the hook ten times really fast, to "dial" 0, to get the operator.
Mainly this was before some modern phone signals were used, such as Calling Party Control. We all know this as the disconnect tone, and the off the hook tone. If you watch some shows, people used to take the phone off the hook to block calls from ringing. That behavior stopped when CPC introduced the off the hook tone, which is very loud and annoying. And more relevant to the question, the disconnect tone which tells one side that the other side has disconnected. Prior to CPC, you had no way of telling if the silence on the phone was silence or that the call was lost. The disconnect tone fixed that. People no longer had to toggle the hook to know you were hung up on, the BEEEEEP did it for you.
I can confirm that (cde & BowlOfRed's answer) - the other answers aren't quite right because the technology started changing so rapidly in the 60's and 70's after the transistor was invented and finally found its way to the phone system. Everyone was used to hitting the phone hook repeatedly to hang up - it took a while for this old habit to die out.
I was born in the 50's and actually used those phones back in the day. Hanging up back then frequently didn't break the connection because everything was done by switchboard operators. I always thought it was weird that I could hang up and then pick up the phone 5 minutes later and still be connected to the other phone. Hitting the phone hook rapidly flashed a light on the switchboard operator's panel, which attracted her attention. She would manually pull the cord out of the panel, and the call would finally be disconnected.
Ghostbusters was made prior to the guidelines set in 1994 to use 555-0100 through 555-0199. This is how we know Veronica Mars was made after 1994. In that show, telephone numbers are displayed frequently, and all are in the allowed range of 555-01xx.
In the meantime, please let me know if you remember or notice any telephony-related Easter Eggs as you watch these shows! Also, for those of you outside the US, what does your entertainment industry do for fake telephone numbers?
The no-goodbye hangup is not a phenomenon isolated to movies about people in emotional distress, either. This supercut has almost three minutes of people hanging up on the phone without saying goodbye, many in completely mundane situations. And a lot of these examples come from classic movies, like The Terminator, Midnight Cowboy, and Double Indemnity.
I doubt it. It certainly would have taken less time than it took me to stop thinking about whether Toller had ever made a phone call before in his life and refocus on the plot of First Reformed. My humble request to the writers who keep leaving these two little but very important words out of your screenplays: Please hang up and try again.
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That is a great question, Barpar82. What Chris1060 stated is correct. Once your device has used up 10GB of mobile hotspot data, it will be brought down to 3G Speeds. This does not carry over if you turn off your Hotspot. You can read more about this here: -verizon-plan-unlimited-faqs/
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In 1978, a local serial child abductor and murderer only known as "The Grabber" prowls the streets of a suburb in North Denver, Colorado. Finney Blake and his younger sister Gwen live in the area with their abusive, alcoholic father Terrence, whose wife died by suicide after having a series of disturbing psychic dreams. Finney is frequently bullied and harassed at school, but his friend and classmate Robin fends off the bullies.
Having inherited her mother's ability, Gwen dreams about the Grabber's abduction of Bruce, a boy Finney knew from Little League. Two police detectives, Wright and Miller, interview Gwen at school, believing she may know the Grabber. When Terrence learns about the questioning, he gives Gwen a beating. Soon afterward, the Grabber abducts first Robin and then Finney.
Finney awakens in a soundproofed basement with a disconnected black rotary dial telephone on one wall. It begins to ring on its own at times; Finney hears only static when he first answers it, but then hears Bruce's voice telling him about a floor tile he can remove to dig an escape tunnel. Finney starts to dig, but the house's foundations are sunk too deeply for him to go beneath them.
The Grabber brings Finney a meal and leaves the basement door unlocked. As Finney is about to sneak out, he gets a call from Billy, another past victim. Billy warns Finney that the Grabber is waiting at the top of the basement stairs to punish him if he tries to leave, as part of a cruel game. At Billy's suggestion, Finney uses a hidden length of cable to climb up to the basement window; however, his weight pulls out the grate covering the pane, leaving him with no way to reach it again.
As Gwen confides to Terrence about her dreams of Finney's abduction, Wright and Miller question an eccentric man named Max who is staying in the area with his brother and has shown great interest in the Grabber's crimes. It is revealed that Finney is being held in Max's basement and that the Grabber is his brother.
Finney receives a call from Griffin, a third victim, who gives him the combination to the lock securing the house's front door and tells him that the Grabber has fallen asleep. He sneaks out and unlocks the door, but the Grabber quickly recaptures Finney after his dog Samson barks to wake him. A fourth victim, a juvenile delinquent named Vance, calls to tell Finney he can break through a wall and into a freezer in the adjacent room. Finney does so but finds the freezer door locked. As Finney despairs over his fate, he receives one last call from Robin, who urges him to stand up for himself and fight back by packing the phone receiver with dirt to use as a bludgeon.
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