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15 years ago I was on a date with a wonderful young lady. We had a picnic and I brought my (at the time) very modern projector to watch a movie, projected on a
by xnyan 6y ago
15 years ago I was on a date with a wonderful young lady. We had a picnic and I brought my (at the time) very modern projector to watch a movie, projected on a bedsheet in the woods. Windows Media Player refused to play the DVD. No internet access at all. I thought I had failed...until I remembered that I had installed VLC. Opened the VTS.VOB on the DVD directly and boom, the video started and played back without a single hitch. I was a tech hero that day.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for VLC!
- andrewjrhill 6y agoHow did you power the projector? Did you drag a generator into the forest too?
- huntertwo 6y agoHe busted out the old hand crank projector of course.
- code_duck 6y agoI'm envisioning a UPS. Good question.
- aasasd 6y agoMy bet is on ‘a car’. There are converters to power 220/110V appliances off a car battery.
- venatiodecorus 6y agothank you hacker news, asking the real questions here. i'll be very upset if we don't get the answer to this question. we must know every detail.
- karolist 6y agoInverter type, for example Honda 10i is portable and not that noisy :)
- saluki 6y agoWhen the Blair Witch Project came out, my Uncle took his son and a few of his friends (Jr. High Age) out in to the woods setup a generator and a TV and they watched the movie in the woods at night. My cousin said they were so scared, but his friends still talk about it to this day when they get together.
- xnyan 6y agoI had a car, as others suggested.
- fit2rule 6y agoHa, I had the same experience on a date with my brand new tiBook in 2001 .. wouldn't play the DVD .. but VLC, which had been released around the same time as the tiBook, did though! In my case, we'd carried my tiBook up to the lawn on the front of the Hollyhock house in LA (Frank Lloyd Wright house), and watched Blade Runner on a blanket on the grass with the house in the background, as that glorious California sun set in the distance. My date was most impressed that we were having an outside movie date in that way ... it was pretty neat to have such freedom on a picnic date. (She wasn't as impressed when I checked my email over the Ricochet modem I had though, even though it was frickin' awesome at the time..) Been a VLC paid subscriber for almost 20 years now, as a consequence.
- xnyan 6y agoLook at that, we have a shared mac-windows love story...kind of!