Super 8mm colour cine projector: Kidnapped. 1979.This is like something along similar lines that I used to get extremely excited about when Dad used his cine projector to play a black and white Gregory Peck film called Marooned. I thought the film, played large and proud, and shaking and blurred, off my bedroom wall was absolutely amazing. Then again, I was 10 years old, and it was 1972.
I heard his surgeon took both buttocks to replace his cheeks.He also told the tale of his plastic surgeon not having to take skin from his backside to repair his forehead, because of taking collagen. Another tall tale from Pinocchio Pete.
That was the reason I said it. I guess I was a bit too cryptic!That's because no one expects the spanish inquisition.
To torture you now would be simple - strap you to a chair and force you to watch IW.
I had something better than that when I was a kid in the early 70s!
IW have missed a trick today, they should have had Natalia on this evening, and do a Halloween Special.
Wonder if the press are at Chez Jacks yet or not, any idea what TV Region she would be in, Would be a laugh to watch.
Happy Halloween
Nether Regions…IW have missed a trick today, they should have had Natalia on this evening, and do a Halloween Special.
Wonder if the press are at Chez Jacks yet or not, any idea what TV Region she would be in, Would be a laugh to watch.
Happy Halloween
Oh man, was anything more exciting in school than when the TV trolley got wheeled in?!
…of course, the teacher wouldn't have a clue how to work it —"JUST CLUNK DOWN 'PLAY' ON THE MACHINE, MISS - NO THAT WON'T BREAK IT, IT'S HOW IT WORKS!!!!"— and once that hurdle was cleared, the remote would've fallen out of the caddy on the way to class so they couldn't turn it to the right channel.
Usually, by the time we were actually watching whatever it was we'd see about 10 mins of it before the 'end of class' bell cut in.
Wife and I have only bought two items from the latest IW.That projector just about sums up everything wrong with their feeble attempts to offer anything that comes close to resembling a credible technology product. If they actually prepared properly to show these products it might have been demonstrated in a manner that showed it in a better light, so to speak. I am sure they ‘meet’ these products for the first time about five minutes before they go to air, and last night was no different.
Who exactly do they think would want something like this? Anybody with a serious craving for a giant screen will have already gone down that road by having the appropriate TV at home. Watching nostalgic old footage from a VCR, a phone or a laptop etc., of drunken Dad smashing the flat up in an alcoholic rage say, can be sourced in exactly the same way this projector works by connecting to a modern day television. Rather than having some grainy and blurred image on a wall. All the fiddling about positioning it, focusing it, getting it out and putting it away again..When you can bluetooth from a phone or computer to your main telly and see it in much better quality- vision and sound. I wonder how many, or more tellingly how few they sold? And streaming from a TV to it? The quality is not there from what I saw to make it a worthwhile proposition.
Also, their draconian returns policy seems abjectly ridiculous if they want people to take a punt and try (yes,TRY) a product. It seems you can wear clothes ordered at home to try them, as long as the tags remain. Fair enough. But for a product like the projector (and many others) you can ‘try’ it by not opening the box if you subsequently want to return the thing successfully? Is that really their policy, or have I got that wrong? For most non-edible things they sell QVC allows you to actually road test goods and will usually honour returns if the goods are returned in an undamaged condition. Not that they would sell something pointless like that projector Ideal World had on last night, but would at least allow you to properly use it if they did.
Thanks for the photo upload. Very interesting. It seems to me that if you try anything i.e. remove it from the box switch it on, etc.. then they can say within their terms and conditions that they won’t refund you. Which makes the whole process of ordering something with the intention of seeing whether you want it or not, absolutely pointless, if you subsequently find you don’t want it and have tried it. Which is probably the only way you’re going to find out that you don’t want it!Wife and I have only bought two items from the latest IW.
She bought a small shaggy type rug for the bedside and I got a stop leak tape DIY stuff.
She is quite happy with the rug, the stop leak tape didn't work in the application that I tried it in.
Both were free delivery so no P&P issues.
I'm going to add a photo of the standard returns information as stated on the invoice that came with one of items, and I'll let draw your on conclusions. View attachment 30290
I had one better than that n the 1950s!I had something better than that when I was a kid in the early 70s!
They’ll be selling magic lanterns next or those slotted cylinders that you turn the handle. And the picture inside moves (they had these in the Science Museum)That projector just about sums up everything wrong with their feeble attempts to offer anything that comes close to resembling a credible technology product. If they actually prepared properly to show these products it might have been demonstrated in a manner that showed it in a better light, so to speak. I am sure they ‘meet’ these products for the first time about five minutes before they go to air, and last night was no different.
Who exactly do they think would want something like this? Anybody with a serious craving for a giant screen will have already gone down that road by having the appropriate TV at home. Watching nostalgic old footage from a VCR, a phone or a laptop etc., of drunken Dad smashing the flat up in an alcoholic rage say, can be sourced in exactly the same way this projector works by connecting to a modern day television. Rather than having some grainy and blurred image on a wall. All the fiddling about positioning it, focusing it, getting it out and putting it away again..When you can bluetooth from a phone or computer to your main telly and see it in much better quality- vision and sound. I wonder how many, or more tellingly how few they sold? And streaming from a TV to it? The quality is not there from what I saw to make it a worthwhile proposition.
Also, their draconian returns policy seems abjectly ridiculous if they want people to take a punt and try (yes,TRY) a product. It seems you can wear clothes ordered at home to try them, as long as the tags remain. Fair enough. But for a product like the projector (and many others) you can ‘try’ it by not opening the box if you subsequently want to return the thing successfully? Is that really their policy, or have I got that wrong? For most non-edible things they sell QVC allows you to actually road test goods and will usually honour returns if the goods are returned in an undamaged condition. Not that they would sell something pointless like that projector Ideal World had on last night, but would at least allow you to properly use it if they did.