Re: Brin: On Incomprehensibility'

2009-08-10 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:05 AM Monday 8/3/2009, KZK wrote: David Brin Wrote: > Today's DVD's > 1- are not universal if you record on "minus" or "plus" mode and many >units throw fits, even then 1a. Get a better Player. Sony. Avoid Philips/Magnavox for electronics. See earlier exchanges about people (frex on

Re: Brin: On Incomprehensibility'

2009-08-03 Thread KZK
David Brin Wrote: > Today's DVD's > 1- are not universal if you record on "minus" or "plus" mode and many >units throw fits, even then 1a. Get a better Player. Sony. Avoid Philips/Magnavox for electronics. 1b. Why even bother with the minus format. It's inferior, and it's pretty much dead.

Re: Brin: On Incomprehensibility'

2009-08-02 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Aug 2, 2009, at 7:17 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: And the mandated DTV changeover was just another excuse to get money out of people who were satisfied with things the way they were, even those who have little or naught to spare. . . . ronn! :) On that, I'll agree with you. Did we r

Re: Brin: On Incomprehensibility'

2009-08-02 Thread Lance A. Brown
Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 8/2/2009 8:17 PM: > And the mandated DTV changeover was just another excuse to get money out > of people who were satisfied with things the way they were, even those > who have little or naught to spare. Never mind the need for that freed up airspace for ot

Re: Brin: On Incomprehensibility'

2009-08-02 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 12:19 PM Sunday 8/2/2009, Bruce Bostwick wrote: On Aug 1, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 07:31 PM Saturday 8/1/2009, David Brin wrote: Today's DVD's 1- are not universal if you record on "minus" or "plus" mode and many units throw fits, even then Another problem, at lea

Re: Brin: On Incomprehensibility'

2009-08-02 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Aug 1, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 07:31 PM Saturday 8/1/2009, David Brin wrote: Today's DVD's 1- are not universal if you record on "minus" or "plus" mode and many units throw fits, even then Another problem, at least with the unit I have, is that if I want to re

Re: Brin: On Incomprehensibility'

2009-08-01 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:31 PM Saturday 8/1/2009, David Brin wrote: Today's DVD's 1- are not universal if you record on "minus" or "plus" mode and many units throw fits, even then Another problem, at least with the unit I have, is that if I want to record a program (frex) from 8 to 9 on channel m followed by one