Sheer laziness!

Oh dear - I started with such good intentions!

Never mind, I will try and post something more regularly from now on I promise.

Regards

Got my O2 Joggler now. Great device - great price for the next week or so as well.

There is a shed load of "hacking" information around for it.

If you are interested - joggler.info is a pretty good starting point.

I am going to be playing with it a bit for a while to see how far we can go with device. I already have Ubuntu Netbook Remix running - complete with touch screen, wifi etc all working! Sound needs looking at but it is pretty good so far!

Electric Palace - Subtitled films - Part II

Well that did not go as well as I hoped!

It looks like you cannot get hold of subtitled prints for feature films. Subtitles in the cinema are either done using a (now discontinued) Dolby system called ScreenTalk, or are done using a digital projector.

Since we don't have the money to buy a ScreenTalk system, and we are planning to get a digital projector in the next 12-18 months - my idea has been declared "non-starter".

We will have to see what we can do later on I guess.

Electric Palace - Subtitled films

Well, I dropped myself in it again!

Mentioned to "the management" that we should consider doing a subtitled film evening/club sort of thing. They thought it was a good idea and left me with the job of researching it all!

So I now have to find out how to get subtitled prints, trailers, adverts etc.

Should be fun actually - once I get the contacts I need and can start phoning/emailing.

Watch this space!!

Webcam question

Here is one for the experts!

I need to find an easy way of streaming video from the webcam on my laptop when I am away from home. I have a netbook with a webcam and I have a "dongle" to access the internet via GPRS/3G.

So - what software do I need on the netbook so that I can stream what it sees to my home?

Any bright ideas out there?

Cheers

"The Pictures"

We also had a film made about us a while ago!

A lovely youg lady called Samantha Shaw made a film about three small cinemas like us and used it as her final piece of work towards a media degree.

I just found the film on Youtube and thought I would share it.

It is here: "The Pictures"

Give it a look.

Electric Palace piccies

Some time ago, a charming couple were taking pictures outside the Palace.

So - I invited them in to have a look at the projection room (we were running a film so I couldn't let them in to the cinema itself).

The result is a very good set of pictures that you can find here.

Do take a look - I think they are great!