Things were going quite smoothly at MovieNight this week… happy people, delicious fresh sangria, super-sweet Maïa Vidal short, etc., but when we switched over to the computer to present Shame… nothing. Nada. Zilch. Although our audience made a lot of potentially useful suggestions… I believe it was Julien who suggested that I should bypass the receiver and connect directly to the projector – a suggestion that was taken up, and which led to the discovery that the cause of the problem – a dodgy mini DV to HDMI adaptor. A bit of massaging got the $4 item to get back to work, and I was able to climb down off the bar stool/ladder and get back to the program. Happy ending! Update: It turns out that there was nothing wrong with the adaptor (sorry for all those curses I made, China!). The receiver had just come back from repair and I had assigned the computer to the wrong HDMI input. Human error! Luckily, I did a “pre-flight” check before the next projection from the computer, and discovered my mistake. Phew.

The program was great, after all that.  Another happy ending? Not so much.

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