Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2010 July 21

= July 21 =

Highest transfer fees for goalkeepers
In football, it's widely known that the highest fee paid for a goalkeeper was Gianluigi Buffon's transfer to Juventus, a "reported £32.6 million" (although for some reason our reference in the Buffon article says £23.3m). My question is, who comes after Buffon? What's the second-highest, third-highest (and so on, if possible) fee paid for a goalkeeper? Dreaded Walrus t c 00:48, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * According to this 2007 source, the second highest is Angelo Peruzzi (£10.5m) and the third Craig Gordon (£9m). They were still the top three as of November 2009.  (talk) 09:29, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Francesco Toldo cost Inter 18 million pounds (some sources say 17) from Fiorentina in 2001. Cris Freddi

tour de france 2010
Why didn't Schleck attack today and try and make up more time? Now he only has one stage left to work with. Why would be leave everything to one stage only? I would appreciate links that explain such strategy. Ta, 70.29.47.140 (talk) 01:16, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * It seems from this interview that Schleck has done it for theatre! He's apparently better on the climbs than Contador, who is better on the time trials. As to why, maybe he didn't have it in him yesterday. It's possible he wanted to give Armstrong the chance to say goodbye to the Tour in style (didn't quite happen though). Really, unless Schleck himself tells us we won't know, and I've searched round and could only find that interview quoted online. --TammyMoet (talk) 09:04, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks TammyMoet that was just what I was looking for. 70.29.47.140 (talk) 18:51, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

BBC iplayer
There is an opera available for download. How do I grab it and copy it onto dvd? Kittybrewster  &#9742;  14:13, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * You would need to check the help documentation on the website. Being based outside the UK I'm not familiar with the service myself, but this article has something about the download options.  They don't sound all that promising with regards to copying the opera onto DVD, it sounds like you're supposed to just watch it through your computer.  However, if you do manage to get the opera onto a standalone file (e.g. .avi) then it is a fairly simple matter to make a DVD out of it using a program like Nero for Windows or Toast for Macs. Other download options may also be available. --Viennese Waltz talk 15:47, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * You can't. iPlayer has an option to download and keep programs for a week, where it's viewable with an Adobe Air based flash application that's pretty much identical to the online flash based iPlayer. But that enforces the viewing restriction, which means it quickly makes the download unplayable, and it's never in an open format that you could use to transcode it to another medium or burn to a disk. There used to be a program called get-iplayer which did download the programs and save them (usually as an mp4 video file), but the developer of that no longer supports it and it mostly doesn't work any more. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 21:12, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * There's also this one which seems to still be current. --Viennese Waltz talk 07:35, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Analogue shutdown on April 30, 2012
I have an analogue satellite receiver. In May 2012, however, there will be no analogue satellite television anymore. What should I do? --84.61.131.18 (talk) 15:53, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * (The original poster geolocates to Germany, and is presumably referring to this switchoff.) Comet Tuttle (talk) 17:24, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Boxing Announcer
During the long reign of heavyweight champion Joe Louis, the ring announcer always ended introduction of the fighters by saying " May the better participant emerge victorious". Who was that announcer? Thank You. . Milt Merrick  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.173.238.165 (talk) 17:29, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Milt, I've removed your email address, as posting it here will attract spam. We don't reply via email, so keep watching this page and hopefully some boxing fan will reply to your query here. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 21:14, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Harry Balogh, perhaps? Deor (talk) 21:31, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

X-Games
Do they show the X-Games on ESPN in Ireland? Moptopstyle1 (talk) 19:38, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * They seem so. As far as I can tell, ESPN Ireland has exactly the same schedule as ESPN UK. Judging from their website, they are showing the X-Games. The banner rotating on top of the page I linked has a panel promoting the X-Games next week. (You might have to wait for it, or click the right arrow a number of times) /Coffeeshivers (talk) 10:23, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch man! I really appreciate it. I was wonderin' if it will show in Ireland for my friend, cause man, I gotta know if she can see me when I wave to the camera. :-P Moptopstyle1 (talk) 20:33, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Travel Channel Top 10 Show
One of these top 10 shows I saw on the Travel Channel (probably top 10 weirdest places in America) talked about this place in either Oregon or Washington state called something like "Dark Hole" or "Black Hole" that had some oddities such as magnetic anomalies and a floor that caused everyone to stand at a 17 degree angle and I was wondering if anyone knows what I'm talking about and could tell me what it is so I could look up information about it. --Melab±1 &#9742; 23:28, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I think you mean the Oregon Vortex, featured in "Top Ten Places of Mystery". ---Sluzzelin talk  23:52, 21 July 2010 (UTC)