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Things were going quite smoothly at MovieNight this week… happy people, delicious fresh sangria, super-sweet Ma\u00c3\u00afa Vidal short, etc., but when we switched over to the computer to present Shame<\/em>… 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.<\/p>\n The program was great, after all that.\u00c2\u00a0 Another happy ending? Not so much.<\/p>\n More about this film on IMDb \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Things were going quite smoothly at MovieNight this week… happy people, delicious fresh sangria, super-sweet Ma\u00c3\u00afa 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 … Continue reading Shame (on me for not doing a pre-check).<\/span> ![\"imdb\"](\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" "\\"imdb\\"")
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