Mostly: Classical

[Sexton O Blake]

Cripes - your VCRs seem a tad more advanced than ours. Heck they are like "aisle" fillers here. The latest craze are the DVD recorders esp with Harddrives.

My story (sad as it is).. I have probably 50+ VCR tapes without labels and never ever can I find anything. Now with the ATI, it records and it says "Sexica's Sin Sity (Dec 13)" for the show. So I am never "blind" to what is there.

My theory with the DVD recorder (should be easy?) - they should serialize all the DVD's recorded (I assume every blasted one has a unique id anyways - like NICS). Then internally it should always have a catalog. You then pick "this program" and it says "insert disk #". Perhaps a USB port - hook up to your PC and you can manipulate the catalog better etc.

Anyways, the PVRs I think are next up. Again, unless someone here knows more than me.. (lurkers??) - we don't really have an easy way of recording from satellite or digital cable - unless we use the old school video cable routes.

My brother has the PVR - he apparently can copy from it to a VCR or whatever. (though he tends to live in another world sometimes).

I want to download movies et all and then watch them on a TV instead of the computer -- enter that other unit that plays DIVX (though it is not DIVX certified). They have already started selling DIVX DVD players for the home.

Lot of stuff to mull - my initial thoughts were burning DVDs of home movies and real movies etc. But you can only get 2HRS on them (one movie). At least with a DIVX DVD player - you can have a bunch. But again, I hate pissing time with discs when I can just load it on a PC and then play from that. Talking HUNDREDS of gigs versus a measly 4GB.

Further our government is controlling our heads like puppets. All programs get a grant from the government (CANADIAN CONTENT). Basic cable - is regulated - and we are forced to pay for Weather; national news and kid shows. (So we basically DOUBLE pay - pay for the kid shows to be aired on cable - which are given money from the government - which we pay taxes to).

Anyways, I may be watching BBC programs and west coast news within a couple of weeks - and a PVR by year's end I think. Will let you know. The only downside - my brother has gone through 3 PVRs - problems here and there (the FAQ on the cable site mentions "cycling" and "reboots" -- shit my phone did that all the time until I got the BIOS updated).

Thanks for the info. I will review that. I am still "nah" on the transmitter stuff. Unless they have come a long way baby, that last thing I want is to see are lines all over the place when the microwave; portable phone or blender go off.

Anyahoo.. come on guys.. lets reboot this market...
Blake!