Dave Pattern's blog
October just keeps getting better for Hitchcock fans!
Universal have just officially announced the region 1 "Hitchcock Presents: Season One" box set.
(image courtesy of DVD Times)
Hopefully we'll have an announcement soon from Universal about the possible UK release of the set on October 31st.
So, that now means the following are potentially going to be released in [...]
Many thanks to Mr_Lowery for spotting the following DVDs that have just appeared on play.com:
Hitchcock: The Complete Box Set (03/10/2005)
Psycho: 45th Anniversary Edition (17/10/2005)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 1 (6 Discs) (31/10/2005)
If play.com have got the details correct, then October is going to be a very expensive month (R1 "Lifeboat" is due on 18th, and the [...]
Due to some "Saturday morning boredom", I've put together a tool for generating a set of replacement HIP navigation bar GIFs:
http://library.hud.ac.uk:4128/hipgif/
The idea is to replace the standard set of HIP graphics:
…with a set of more rounded ones:
I've also put together a "how to" guide for HIP 3.04 (which may work with other versions of HIP [...]
It looks like Fox are finally going to release Lifeboat on DVD. The unconfirmed release date is October 18th.
I've also got hold of a pile of US budget releases from Westlake Entertainment Group. I've yet to add screen grabs to the site, but the transfers appear to be similar to the old Laserlight/Delta [...]
Friday started off with a session about the RFID implementation at Middlesex, with Alan Hopkinson, Tim Pond (D-Tech Direct), and Gregor Hotz (Bibliotheca). We're planning to implement RFID at Huddersfield during 2006.
Next up, James Castle (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) and myself did a 45 minute session entitled "HIP Ideas". James talked about the issues [...]
Thursday started with a demo of Web Reporter from Phil Coles – here's my notes from the session:
140 reports supplied as standard
reports processed on the Web Reporter server, using live data from the Horizon database (i.e. no data mining)
reports can be scheduled to run overnight
reports can be exported as PDF, Excel, CSV, etc
new reports can [...]
In the morning, Jill Osborne from Dynix gave a very impressive demonstration of the new HIP 4 administrator interface.
One of the biggest problems I found with HIP 3 (and below) was doing the admin configuration – the options were here, there and everywhere. HIP 4 brings everything together into a single (fairly) intuitive interface. [...]
After a fairly uneventful cheap flight down from Leeds/Bradford, we're here in breezy Exeter for the DUG/HUG 2005 Conference.
Sadly, the nearest bar (in Hope Hall) only seems to be open for an hour every day. So, a group of us headed down in to Exeter for some sight-seeing and pub grub at the Ship [...]
The default GIF images used in HIP 3.04 for the inactive tabs only really work if you stick with the grey colour. Once you change that background colour, they no longer match:
Not only that, but the two corner GIFs are actually a different colour (more olive/brown than grey):
You can call me "sad", but things [...]