well no need to fear, i have rectified my home theatre dilema.
Once again i’m watching crisp clear picture through my over priced HDMI cable.
i just needed to fiddle with the output settings in the set top box, some how the settings got reset and it was only outputting through composite outputs or s-video. i’m so clever i fixed it i fixed it i fixed it.
I love having a HD projector with my HD digital TV reciver.
But tonight i’m angry. I’m watching my HD projector, but i’m only using a S-Video cable betwwen the reciever and the projector. Normally they are connected with an HDMI cable, but either the HDMI output on the reciever or the HDMI input on the projector is broken. SO damn anoying, and i have no way of checking whihc one has gone to the dogs, i’m hoping its the reciever casue i can live without tv while its off getting repaired but if its the projector i’ll be upset, panasonic outsources all their repairs to these places that take so damn long to fix stuff.
The good thing is that all our gear is still under warranty.
But you dont understand how hard it is for me to watch HD tv through a S-video cable.
Todayis a saturdayand i had to get upat 4:49am how friggenpainful.
Was helping the breathru artz peoples on their film shoot today,I enjoyed the day it was hot in the sunbut it was good to be involved in film making again. I was only camera assistant but still fun, i think Tom really enjoys making me do stuff that is below him in the film making food chain. But today i didnt mind, i’m not even going to whinge about it after this post.
We were filming in a street in newington, man this is an ugly sterile suburb.
now i’m at the commy house in newtown.
rigged up the old VHS player to the home theatre set up tonight.
Boy oh boy does VHS look good when its projected this big.
We are watching ‘Good News Week, Unseen and Obscene” which is damn funny.
today was a long day nad it seemed to be filled with stessful technical glitches putting me under a bit of pressure to resolve them.
good thing i came equal first in NSW for media studies.
tomorrow i’m of on a plane to QLD, hopefuly i’ll find some time to work on shirts off summer.
but i dont think we’ll have much time off.
My home cineam setup is now fully set up. tonight with jennys help i drilled into bricks and put in those little plastic things then a screw into the little plastic things. then it was time to mount the 2.1 metre wide screen.
Oh yeah baby!
Now its ok for me to move in.
I just finnished setting up our home theatre system. I”m about to turn it all on and hope its all wired up properly. I had to extend the cables that panasonic sent with the speakers casue they where too short but good old dick smith supplied me with 29 metres of speaker cable and now all the speakers are connected. the projector is all connected, the set top box is all connected. all that left is to mount the screen but hopefuly ryan can help me with that next week.
i love cables and projectors and all that jazz.
The best thing i’ve see so far that is mildly connected to the world cup.
this little video takes a while to load but very clever.
Yesterday was janes birthday and today is debbies. so happy birthday ladies.
in other exciting new i managed to get dics 5 + 6 of Las Vegas series 2. S i’ll be finnished the series by the end of the week. then i will be left with a sense of fulfilment but also a giant void, what tv series am i going to get hooked on now.
It could be a long time until i can finish watching series 2 of las vegas.
video ezy hornsby has the 2 remaining discs which i want to hire but they are hired out by some other customer at the moment.
the things is that this customer is allowed to have the dvd’s for as long as they like with no late fees. infact they are allowed to have 4 dvds at home at any one time and not have to return them for as long as they like.
It costs $29.95 a month to be part of this video ezy club thing. which means the average customer like me is dogged if the shop only has 1 copy of mos dvd’s.
dogs
Its 9:05pm on a friday night and i’m alone in the office working away on making a video for tomorrow afternoon.
the anoying thing is that the video footage i wanted to edit, well its dead, it was recoreded on what seems to be a dodgy DV tape so i have to make the whole video using photo images. the upside is that i have about 800 photos to choose fomr to make a 4 - 5min video.
I have become addicted to the tv show ‘Las Vegas’ all about a casino and its security room and stuff. It’s really cool.
Tom and i hired disc one of series 1 a week or so ago. since then i have hired disc 2,3 and accidently 6.
so 2 discs to go then i’ve finished series one, and the best thing is that just 2 dasy ago at video ezy series 1 and 2 went from 3 day hire to weekly.
oh i cant wait to get home and watch another episode.
that howie and jenny own the following.
A Panasonic AE900 widescreen HD projector.
A Grandview 92″ widescreen HD pull down screen.
A Panasonic 5.1 surround sound system (600 watts)
almost every month for the last few years i have bought a magazine called “australian video camera”.
I admit its quite geeky, but i like it. Anyway today my geekiness was increased as i did a back order of a one i missed in december last year.
This is purchase today.
I dont normally buy movie dvd’s these days becasue i never watch my movie dvd’s all that often. but there are some movies that i have always wanted to own. And the godfather trilogy is one of them.
And it came in this fun wooden box.
To buy the trilogy is $96
but i got the three with the box for $54
Its a steal! the only thing is that i dont get the special features dic, but is the special feature disc really worth an extra $40 ???? and you dont get the cool box.
I just installed final cut Express HD and soundtrack onto lappy along with 4,000 roylatry free music loops.
how fun.
now i need a video to make.
a couple of weeks ago i was home sick (just for something different) and tom had a day off. So in between my trips to the bathroom we made this abismal video. titled “big sister”
its about 7 mins long and you can watch it by clicking on the logo or download it by right clicking and “save target as”
oh bevis i hope its ok we used your music.
Today i saw a television on a fridge.
It was in franklins in a coke drinks fridge near the counter. I thought that strange why is there a little tv in the fridge. I went up to it and it was a touch screen and it said ‘touch here” so i did. It just seemed to play advertisments for mount franklin water. So not all that exciting in the end but still kind of fun.
Well here it is the Kodak Z740
5.0 Mega Pixel
10x optical zoom
Digital SLR
Internal memory and SD Cards.
I already had a 64MB SD card, which i know is a pansy card. Well today i got a 512MB SD card with some support money i got. So thats good that will be big enough to take lots of photos in greece.
Also Jenny’s parents bought me a camera bag for it too.
this is a photo of REC. The concert in Nowra run by James.
Tom and i both went down. I was on Camera 1, moving around on the stage and Tom was mixing.
It was a lot of fun, the silhouette on the right hand side of the stage is me doing my thing on the camera.
I love stages and lights and cameras and screens.
