Remember slide shows?

[Feraud]

I may have spoken too soon. Perhaps family time around a projector is not dead.

Texas Instruments Shows Off Cell Phone Projector Prototype
Posted by Joel Johnson, September 20, 2007 11:12 AM

Although it's not yet ready for production, it's great to see that in-device projectors are still being put together in the labs. And even shown off from time to time, like this one that Engadget coaxed out of Texas Instruments last night. That its projected image looks sort of crummy isn't the big deal (and they say they have an LED-based model in the lab that is even brighter) but that the prototypes are easily the size of a normal phone.
Of course, battery life will be an issue, especially for a feature that has few critical applications, but won't it be neat to be able to watch movies from your phone on a decent sized screen or show off your photo galleries without getting in a huddle?

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/09/20/texas-instruments-sh.html

 

[Hondo]

I remember my grandmother would almost always shed a tear and say how it was so sad to see those old pictures. I never really understood how she felt until I got much older and looked back at "more happy times" myself.

Hear, hear, try as I might, its tough to "look back at happier times"
I kind of feel like your grandmother, its sad, happy times but long gone.
The older I grow the sadder it gets, our family never did slide shows, 16mm was expensive, we did the old 8mm home movies, no sound and someone would narrate what were about to see, and I think "View Masters" you can see stills from cartoons, world travels, wow those were the days huh?
Now a days you can transfer slides, photos in presentations like Powerpoint, I know allot of people who just
hate to sit through powerpoint presentations lol

 

[KY Gentleman]

I especially like the "gag picture" or surprise shot that was inevitable. The slides were being discussed and as the show progresses all of a sudden a picture of your uncle falling off the porch or something. Remember in "Animal House" when the slides of the pledges were being reviewed and the slide of Kent Dorfman a/k/a "Flounder" popped up on the wall? "AAAHHH!!!".

 

[MrNewportCustom]

"Remember" slide shows??

A few months ago, my family HAD a slide show! In preparation for converting several thousand slides (and an additional several hundred prints) to digital media, my sister had everyone over for a slide show. We all sat and looked at ourselves from as far back as the late fifties. We then started making jokes about ourselves over what we wore as we were growing up.

It was a wonderful, WONDERFUL evening filled with memories old and new. I hope we'll do it again soon. :eusa_clap

And I'm certain that it wouldn't take me long to find the old family slide projector - it's the kind where you replace one slide while another is being viewed. LONG before the carrousel type! We still have a pull-down screen, too.

EDIT: Found it.

It'll do slides and film strips - mechanism at front. The spare lamp box is unopened.


Lee

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Digital photography appears to have removed this aspect of bonding from our lives.

Not entirely. Since my recent delving back into photography, this time digital, my family is always asking to see what I've recently done. Granted none of it is family-related, but they ask me to show them the work I'm processing on the computer and then ask for a disc of images to take with them.


Lee

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I also used to love filmstrip presentations in school - turn the knob when the record says beep! - but that's for another thread.

I remember those, too. I particularly remember the electronic type with the wired remote. (Using Mort Goldman's voice) I got to work those projectors in class.

Here's a couple photos of an ealry one.

Lee