The movie catalog & request system has finally reached a useful beta test. You can now schedule a showing of any of the 420* features films, cartoons, tv shows, ephemeral shorts, surveillance videos, and movie serials that make up IS Playhouse and our Turkey Day festivities. Plus, you can rate the grabs you most (and least) enjoy capping. Best of all, while I’m still working the bugs out, requests are FREE. Each capper can make at least one request, and depending on the total volume of requests, maybe more. Once I’m satisfied everything’s working ok, I’ll start requesting a small fee via PayPal for the service. (The payment button is live, but the price is set to zero. If you want to test it out by sending me money, I won’t stop you, but your movie will still play.) This is in beta mode now, so please report and tolerate any bugs you encounter and let me know what I can do to make it better.

I know some of you won’t/don’t/can’t use PayPal and that there are good reasons for me to think twice about using it. If this thing takes off, I will probably add more payment methods. But for now, I estimate that they are popular enough that a total failure of this scheme will not be because of my choice of payment systems. If anybody wants to suggest alternative methods that are as simple and comparably priced for a small operation like this, please do.

* Coincidence, really. I don’t do that stuff.

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