Subj : When everything is digita To : Rob Mccart From : August Abolins Date : Tue Feb 28 2023 23:06:00 Hello Rob Mccart! RM> I have a PVR with my satellite TV system that has a 1 TB RM> hard drive, and more can be added. I collect shows and RM> movies on that I don't have time to watch to save for RM> later when they are not running new shows as much. But.. what happens when you unsubscribe from the sat service? Do you have to return the PVR? Or.. can you transfer your recorded material to external media? AA>> Ideally, I'd like to establish a networked laptop next to my >> hi-fi setup and control the music that way. RM> My Stereo is fairly old, so getting digital music into it RM> is difficult unless I do it through the aforementioned CD/ RM> DVD player which is directly wired into it. You could just attach a laptop or a small form factor desktop that has the digital material on it. Then control the play via an app or the computer. RM> My system was worth close to $2000 about 40 years ago, so RM> you can probably triple that for today. It is still RM> working well, mostly because I don't abuse it at high RM> volume or use it a whole lot really. My fine speakers developed the infamous foam rot around the woofers after 12 yrs. But I found a place in Ottawa that specialized in re-foaming existing woofers. I just removed the woofers and just sent those. RM> I have (?) 60 or so vinyl records but mostly I only used RM> them once to make a copy to cassette tape. I know most RM> would argue the sound quality is not as good but I'm not RM> such a music nut and I prefer to wear out a tape rather RM> than the record. You can always make more tapes or disks RM> with the right hardware. It has been the same process for me above: copy LP to tape inorder to preserve the LP. I liked doing that especially when I didn't particularly care for specific songs on an LP. And.. I could build theme-based tapes too. My collection reached 1200 LPs. AA>> A cassette comeback I don't understand. The tapes are AA>> fragile and wear out if the mechanics of the player is AA>> not up to par. RM> I have a number of them that are decades old but I don't RM> use them all that much and I always bought high end tapes RM> which last better. I was particularly referring to the fragility of commercially recorded cassettes. RM> My dual-tape cassette deck was also a RM> fairly high end unit worth over $350 when I got it back in RM> days of yore.. B) I thought I had purchased a fine dual-deck cassette player too (upwards of $400 at the time) ..but one of the players gradually started to fail; I'd be making a high-speed copy and one of the recorder or player units would just stop. Eventually, I couldn't use the deck for copying anymore. And one of the players would just stop after a few seconds of "play" as well. I still have it. I just haven't operated it in many years since the problem started. RM> Record deal - Was approached to do a record with my own RM> music but the producer went bankrupt just before things RM> got going. That's an interesting story. What label was the producer affiliated with? That would be a dream for many to be "discovered" by a producer who thought their material was worthy of promotion. In what genre would you class your music? -- ../|ug --- OpenXP 5.0.57 * Origin: Stare into this point intently ->.<- (1:153/757.21) .