The First Palm Film Festival Accepting Entries

The New Venue is holding the first ever film festival on the Palm, the Aggressively Boring Film Festival, and they are calling on professional and amateur digital filmmakers to submit entries. The festival is being held to celebrate the release of the Sony Clié, which comes bundled with Generic Media's new gMedia for playing video clips.

All submitted films will go on display and be available for download from the New Venue and Generic Media Web sites. The top films will be presented in the Sony Clié booth at Comdex in Las Vegas, November 13th - 17th. One gMedia film will be voted "Best Film" and the winner will receive a new Sony Clié.

  • Before November 10, submit your film online at New Venue as a QuickTime, AVI, GIF animation, Flash, or MPEG-1 file and they will convert it to gMedia.
  • Content is either 4 bit gray or 8 bit color.
  • Maximum size is 160x120. If you specify a custom size, they will preserve it.
  • Maximum frame rate will vary based on frame size, but is approximately 6 to 12 frames per second. If a frame rate is defined, they will keep it, too.
  • No sound.
  • Content is initially only playable only on the Sony Clié.

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Only on Clie, only B&W

Braja @ 11/5/2000 12:41:11 PM #
It seems the video player is only available for the Clie, and the developer's site didn't say that it would be available for other Palm devices. In the FAQ, it seems to imply that this is something exclusive to Sony. Doesn't make much business sense to me. For Sony maybe, but not for Generic Media. Not a good way to warm up to the Palm os community. Activesky is free, available to all devices, and supports color now.

"Aggressively Boring Film Festival"?

ardiri @ 11/5/2000 2:00:03 PM #
i think they are in dire need of getting some high quality 2bit and 4bit grayscale porn :)

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Did I miss the logic?

Carl Brooks @ 11/5/2000 5:22:24 PM #
Where is the logic here? First what's up with Sony releasing the media player only on the Clie? It is one thing to make a Palm device that is far superior to the others that causes software made it to be incompatible with older devices. This not the case here, Sony made its product barely distinguishable from the rest, yet chose to create the media player to only operate on the Clie. I think this practice is not recommended on this platform. The PalmOS was built on the strength of its openendness. Secondly, why have a contest, OK Palm Film Festival based only using Sony's player? This is (nontraditional) opportunity to promote innovative usages of the palm platform. Active Sky, a competing player that runs on all comparable palmos devices, entries should be allowed entry. Last though: Why have the Grand prize be a Clie, when given the above truths, you already have one? A color Clie would make a better choice for prize.

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Disappointed with PALM IIIc

I.M. Anonymous @ 11/6/2000 11:41:54 AM #
I bought Palm IIIc w/ serial no. 10GB15K07WDE in Manila. Just barely after 2 months the palm gave me problem on its battery charging and life span. Palm asia gave me replacement for this faulty palm. The subsequent replacement exhibited the same problem just on the time i received it. Palm asia again exchanged the replacement unit with anothet palm(reconditioned or new?) Again the replacement after one week of usage game another problem. It will not switch on after morethan 2 hours of charging. You can turn it on if it is on its cradle, try to remove it on the cradle it will turn off automatically and worst will hard reset. The last E mail to palm asia regarding the problem were not answered and the most current answered only regarding about troubleshooting. This was after almost 5 working days, compared with their within 24 hour quick response before. Finally my last Email regarding the non functional palm IIIc troubleshhoting were not answered. Almost all palmtech support worlwide were copy furnished with my E mail. Now im wondering why palm asia does not respond to my queries. Did they stop with their after sales support after all replacement were proven defective and cannot perform to my expectation? Now afteralmost 2 weeks lying idle my palm IIIc replacement continued to switch on after cancelling my sync-ing with avantgo at the same time taking it out from the cradle. But the battery as with previous faulty replacement will charged up to half mark only of the battery charge indicator.The same charged palm will discharged also too fast. I have repeatedly experienced the same problem. My concern is the palm company aware of my problem regarding replacement or exchange. Are there many palm IIIc user experiencing the same. If palmasia up to now does not respond favorably or just answer my queries on my E mails I hope thru this comment other palm user may be able to be aware of the poor after sales service of palm asia. If after this still no actions were taken then its time for me to file customer complaint with our Department of Trade And Industry or to whom this concern is appropriate.
Any palm user can help me with my problem. The amount I spent for Palm IIIc is not a joke. This was hard earned and yet I felt shortchanged with the product

Disappointed with PALM IIIc

Resty @ 11/6/2000 11:51:01 AM #
I bought Palm IIIc w/ serial no. 10GB15K07WDE in Manila. Just barely after 2 months the palm gave me problem on its battery charging and life span. Palm asia gave me replacement for this faulty palm. The subsequent replacement exhibited the same problem just on the time i received it. Palm asia again exchanged the replacement unit with anothet palm(reconditioned or new?) Again the replacement after one week of usage game another problem. It will not switch on after morethan 2 hours of charging. You can turn it on if it is on its cradle, try to remove it on the cradle it will turn off automatically and worst will hard reset. The last E mail to palm asia regarding the problem were not answered and the most current answered only regarding about troubleshooting. This was after almost 5 working days, compared with their within 24 hour quick response before. Finally my last Email regarding the non functional palm IIIc troubleshhoting were not answered. Almost all palmtech support worlwide were copy furnished with my E mail. Now im wondering why palm asia does not respond to my queries. Did they stop with their after sales support after all replacement were proven defective and cannot perform to my expectation? Now afteralmost 2 weeks lying idle my palm IIIc replacement continued to switch on after cancelling my sync-ing with avantgo at the same time taking it out from the cradle. But the battery as with previous faulty replacement will charged up to half mark only of the battery charge indicator.The same charged palm will discharged also too fast. I have repeatedly experienced the same problem. My concern is the palm company aware of my problem regarding replacement or exchange. Are there many palm IIIc user experiencing the same. If palmasia up to now does not respond favorably or just answer my queries on my E mails I hope thru this comment other palm user may be able to be aware of the poor after sales service of palm asia. If after this still no actions were taken then its time for me to file customer complaint with our Department of Trade And Industry or to whom this concern is appropriate.
Any palm user can help me with my problem. The amount I spent for Palm IIIc is not a joke. This was hard earned and yet I felt shortchanged with the product
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