Home Entertainment part 3, or, Owner of a lonely scart

[gervase_fen]

My TVCR/DVD combo is now completely de-macrovisioned, courtesy of a Smartlead Scart connector (£32.99)!

I took a leap of faith buying this, based on recommendations in DVD forums : I ordered it three weeks ago from an online company and had started to assume that I'd been stung. (I paid via Worldpay, so I had some guarantee of a refund).

Well, it arrived this morning, and it works, so I can now watch my entire multi-region DVD backlist without getting a migraine.

In other news...

Fired up by my extra-mural intranet activities last week, I gatecrashed the Headline rep's appointment and asked for review copies of forthcoming CDs and tapes - which she was really, really happy to promise to me. "I never know what to do with them anyway!"

Next up was the Macmillan rep, who gave me an e-mail contact at MacHQ - and now I'm on their publicity mailing list, and have an 'in' to request review copies.

Comments

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Does this mean that you can copy Macrovisioned DVDs on to videotape? Not that you have such disrespect for copyright...

Making the most of the macro...

[gervase-fen.livejournal.com]

It is conceivable that I could play, say, "Sports Night", on the DVD player whilst recording the output on the TVCR. And, indeed, if at some stage in the future I buy a DVD recorder, then I could, with a bit of jiggery pokery, copy the contents of one disk onto another.

In other news - I see Mr Shearman will have some practical homework to bring with him to the conference...

Re: Making the most of the macro...

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I need to chase up David Butler about the conference; I've heard nothing about it and I wonder if either:

a. There has been a problem with the funding, which was meant to be coming from the British Academy

b. The policy is simply to keep publicity as low key as possible, to avoid it being overrun by fans.