RA Today ~ Crucible edition

Jollytr has compiled a collection Of The Crucible gifs, caps and artwork. Nicely done.

Just Richard Armitage

I debated about it – wondering, pondering, considering.  Surely people are overloaded by now?  Maybe … maybe not.  In any case, it’s challenging to navigate the tags on Tumblr, so I figured that I’d create a bit of a digest of The Crucible that has been done in the last few days.  This is a collection of screen caps, gifs, art and misc. arising from the recent worldwide release of the film.  I have gone through my archive, the Proctor tag and The Crucible tag on Tumblr and hopefully have found most, if not all, of the offerings.  Below I will provide the link and 1 image from that post.

It is quite interesting to review all of these posts and see how many are of the controversial topless and kissing scenes … and then look further to see the poster’s notes.  Despite claims to the contrary, there were only four posts…

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Trying to watch TV

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Dogs

My view

My dog decided I was going to look at him not at the TV last night. I was holding my phone against my face to give you an idea of how close he was. He doesn’t usually do things like this; I have to admit I kinda liked it 😀

Happy Richard Armitage St Patrick’s Day!

Happy St Patrick’s Day!

Me + Richard Armitage

A slightly older graphic from Tanni.

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My Two Cents on Using Digital Theatre

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Digital Theatre, HDMI, The Crucible

I watch TV from my laptop all of the time. I no longer pay for cable and stream everything I watch. It is extremely simple with an HDMI cable. Most laptops (not all desktops) have an HDMI port. If you have a Smart TV I’m sure it has an HDMI port. An older TV will probably not have an HDMI port. A regular HDMI cable runs from $12-15 on Amazon. Actually there are much cheaper ones but I’ve had good luck with the slightly better ones. Remember your picture can only be as good as your cable. One thing I’ve learned from experience is to get as short a cable as will comfortably reach. I’ve had more problems with my 25′ cable than with the 15′ foot cable. Also the cable can’t have anything pressing on it (furniture, etc.) as they are quite sensitive.

Regular HDMI cable

There is an adaptor to convert from USB to HDMI if you don’t have an HDMI port. A good one is about $60. Again, there are much cheaper ones but your picture depends on the quality of your converter.

USB to HDMI adaptor

I’ve watched two plays from Digital Theatre via HDMI from my laptop. They also offer the option of streaming from a tablet. You can keep the show in your library and stream it any time. I have another HDMI cable made to fit my Kindle Fire (one end is much smaller.) I stream Netflix and Amazon Prime from my Kindle to my TV and it works fine. Without having anything in my library today I couldn’t actually try it but it appears it will work with Digital Theatre. A Kindle Fire is MUCH cheaper than a laptop. You need a wireless set up for that to work but odds are if you have a Kindle you have wireless. It can also be used to stream from your android smart phone.

HDMI for Android or Kindle

My big question for Digital Theatre is can you download it to your laptop or desktop to keep forever and still stream it if you log in to your account and go to your library? I remember DT saying you can download it three times (to three different devices I believe) but today I can’t find where it gives any limit. It seems like you can still stream it but I’d make sure I downloaded it before I streamed it. I have a Samsung Smart TV but it seemed much more difficult than using my cable so I gave up.

Smart TV screen

I got a little carried away with this but if I can help anyone please feel free to ask.

Tree 😀

The Richard Armitage Fan Diary

Thanks! Handy calendar of RA related events.

Armitage Agonistes

Mark your calendars/ KatharineD has assembled a list of dates for us marking upcoming Armitage-related happenings.

March 17         TC download
March 24          BOFA DVD release
March 29          Empire Awards
April 12             Olivier Awards
Mid-April          Cannes Film Festival  selections (UrbanATShedCrew -we hope)
May 28             Audie Awards (Best solo narrator)
June 4              Hannibal S.3 premiere 4th June
June 25            Saturn Awards
July 28             Hannibal episode 8 ( barring unforeseen preemptions)

And what we don’t know much about so far – How Sleepwalker  is progressing in post-production and whether it will appear in this year’s film festival circuit.

What’s going on with Pilgrimage? I think we know that…

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