I love you no matter how you treat me...
May. 9th, 2004 01:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tenaya...yes, I'm talking about electronics.
My Sony VCR died, and it took a Smallville tape with it into the netherworld. And not only that, it froze up in such a way that it wouldn't let any picture through to the TV set. Luckily, the stores were still open. I decided to get a DVD/VCR combo, but there all by itself on an empty shelf was a DVD*recorder*/VCR combo!! It *called* to me!! "Sue! Sue! I'm invisible to everyone else; please take me home!" Again, who could refuse? My impulse buy is a Sanyo. It does DVD-R. I know I should have waited to the blue laser things, but, but, but...it *called* to me! By NAME!
So, I pulled out the two VCRs that were broke or mostly broke. They were the expensive ones...the ones that I made my vids on. Now they're scrap metal. There will be no more vids from me until I get a computer that can do it. End of an era.
Anyway, I pulled out cables & power cords. I gathered up dust bunnies you would not believe. I pulled out Tivo things that made me panick until I figured out where to put them back. And naturally, this happened when I turned in my trifocals for new lenses, trusting that 2 weeks with an old set of glasses would be tolerable. Picture me with a flashlight in one hand, a RCA cable in the other, and my head bobbing up and down as I tried to find the non-existent sweet spot on the blended lenses that would put that "AV 1 in" in focus. Not pretty, not pretty.
So, I put the new machine in, turned it on and... nothing. You knew that was coming, didn't you? Of course there was nothing. Mom had said, "It's that easy?" I stared at her. She jinxed me; just like that. It reminded me of driving around in Britain and asking for directions. If they said, "you can't miss it" we knew we were doomed. The nice part was that wandering aimlessly through the backroads of Britain is a pretty nice way to spend the day. Trying to figure out why there was no picture is not a nice way to spend the evening.
It took another hour of tracing wires, logic-ing through each connection to find my two bone head mistakes. Maybe not all those cables should have been pulled out, eh?? The trouble was that I disconnected the cable coaxial from the satellite box because, it was the cable connection. I had totally forgotten that the satellite people just spliced their dish into the cable company's wiring. And the power plug for the dish had come unplugged. I've no idea how that happened.
As I sit here, I have picture. I have Tivo. I can change channels. The manual is big and it wants me to do many things on set up. I don't dare fiddle with it anymore tonight even though I just want to tape Smallville. I'll try all this again under the blissful combination of daylight and fresh coffee. Maybe my luck will change and the manual will make sense.
Oh, and since it was the day before Mother's Day, I took my pocket pc with me so I could play Tetris or Mummy Maze while I waited in line. I finally had to put it up as people kept standing behind me, peering over my shoulder to see what I was doing. It unnerved me.
My Sony VCR died, and it took a Smallville tape with it into the netherworld. And not only that, it froze up in such a way that it wouldn't let any picture through to the TV set. Luckily, the stores were still open. I decided to get a DVD/VCR combo, but there all by itself on an empty shelf was a DVD*recorder*/VCR combo!! It *called* to me!! "Sue! Sue! I'm invisible to everyone else; please take me home!" Again, who could refuse? My impulse buy is a Sanyo. It does DVD-R. I know I should have waited to the blue laser things, but, but, but...it *called* to me! By NAME!
So, I pulled out the two VCRs that were broke or mostly broke. They were the expensive ones...the ones that I made my vids on. Now they're scrap metal. There will be no more vids from me until I get a computer that can do it. End of an era.
Anyway, I pulled out cables & power cords. I gathered up dust bunnies you would not believe. I pulled out Tivo things that made me panick until I figured out where to put them back. And naturally, this happened when I turned in my trifocals for new lenses, trusting that 2 weeks with an old set of glasses would be tolerable. Picture me with a flashlight in one hand, a RCA cable in the other, and my head bobbing up and down as I tried to find the non-existent sweet spot on the blended lenses that would put that "AV 1 in" in focus. Not pretty, not pretty.
So, I put the new machine in, turned it on and... nothing. You knew that was coming, didn't you? Of course there was nothing. Mom had said, "It's that easy?" I stared at her. She jinxed me; just like that. It reminded me of driving around in Britain and asking for directions. If they said, "you can't miss it" we knew we were doomed. The nice part was that wandering aimlessly through the backroads of Britain is a pretty nice way to spend the day. Trying to figure out why there was no picture is not a nice way to spend the evening.
It took another hour of tracing wires, logic-ing through each connection to find my two bone head mistakes. Maybe not all those cables should have been pulled out, eh?? The trouble was that I disconnected the cable coaxial from the satellite box because, it was the cable connection. I had totally forgotten that the satellite people just spliced their dish into the cable company's wiring. And the power plug for the dish had come unplugged. I've no idea how that happened.
As I sit here, I have picture. I have Tivo. I can change channels. The manual is big and it wants me to do many things on set up. I don't dare fiddle with it anymore tonight even though I just want to tape Smallville. I'll try all this again under the blissful combination of daylight and fresh coffee. Maybe my luck will change and the manual will make sense.
Oh, and since it was the day before Mother's Day, I took my pocket pc with me so I could play Tetris or Mummy Maze while I waited in line. I finally had to put it up as people kept standing behind me, peering over my shoulder to see what I was doing. It unnerved me.
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Date: 2004-05-09 12:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-10 09:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-10 12:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-10 12:18 pm (UTC)If you want to see the packaging:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=32864&item=3095495058&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
This guy says it does DVD+R, but it's reallly DVD-R.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=32865&item=3095795073&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
Hope this helps. See you on Saturday.
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Date: 2004-05-10 07:27 pm (UTC)Plug that puppy in...
Date: 2004-05-16 03:29 pm (UTC)Maybe you can bring it with you next time. And don't forget those albums!
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