CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

[cedmagic]

My earlier message about CED at Disney's Space Mountain was also a test of the flickr.com service that allows pictures on their site to be remotely linked from sites like CED Forum. Most image hosting services do not allow this and will display a red X when a remote link is attemped. To join Flickr, go to their home page and click the Sign Up button:

http://www.flickr.com

Basic accounts on Flickr are free, so it's just a matter of signing up and uploading some pictures. To display these images in a CED Forum message, type the following IMAGE tag in your message on a line by itself:



The next step is to paste the URL of your picture on Flickr between the quotes in the IMG tag. To determine the URL, click on the small image in your Flickr gallery which causes the large image to open. Now click on the "All Sizes" button above the large image. On the resulting page there will be a "Grab URL" box below the image. Select the text in this box and copy/paste it in between the quotes in the IMG tag. The final result will look something like this:



When you preview the message, the image should then appear. You should also include a link back to the Flickr image like I did with the Space Mountain pictures to fulfill Flickr's TOS and to make things easier for people using the text-based CED Digest. In addition to the "Grab URL" box, Flickr also provides some HTML code, but it's not fully compatible with our PHPBB forum. But if you look at that HTML code you'll see the IMG tag embedded inside it.

As to what pictures to include in CED Forum messages, they could be historical ones like the Space Mountain display, or even camera phone pictures of interesting CED discoveries you've made in thrift stores. Another possibility would be a close-up of a broken part in a CED player or a picture of a TV screen showing weird playback behavior hard to describe verbally. The link below goes to my home page at Flickr.

--Tom Howe
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cedmagic