Re: MD: Sony ReliabilityOther MZ-R900 New features

2000-09-18 Thread Ralph Smeets


Add to this:

Sony Walkman (cheap one, don't remember it's type), lived for about 13 months.
Sony DiscMan (first Sony discman with ESP, 3 seconds), started jumping through
discs after 13 months of usage.
Sony CMD-Z1+ (beautifull GSM phone by Sony, one of the RF chips probable died
after
18 months of usage!)
Sony MDS-S38 (MiniDisc recorder, still works, but has that anoying turn-on bug
from the MDS-JE510)
Sony MDX-C7900R (MiniDisc Head unit for the car. Lived for 20 months, had
problems loading discs during the last 6 months, died two weeks ago. At the Sony
service center rigth now)

All the other stuff I've bought which was in general cheaper lived much much
longer than the Sony stuff. So

I've asked my girlfriend to shoot me in the foot or nail my head to the floor if
I attempt to buy Sony stuff again

Cheers,
Ralph - who doesn't want to have is head nailed to the floor


 Sony Products I Currently Own:

 S7000 DVD Player (since 1997, perfect always)
 WebTV and Sony Keyboard (very reliable other than the fact WebTV as an
 ISP sucks (I have a real computer now, a Dell laptop)
 MDS-JA20ES MiniDisc Recorder (serviced once under warranty)

 Other Past Sony Products:

 TRV900 Camcorder-no problems
 MZ-R55 MiniDisc Recorder-junk
 MZ-1 MiniDisc Recorder-replaced several times by Sony
 MZ-R2-ditto
 MZ-R3 (don't remember what happened to it)
 MZ-E3 (gave it away)
 ZS-M1 MiniDisc AC Boom Box (piece of junk- with a MDS-JA50ES by
 Sony)
 MDS-JA50ES MiniDisc Recorder (sold it)
 MDS-101 MiniDisc Recorder (sold it)
 27 inch XBR2 Color TV (sold it, serviced for color tube problems-no Sony
 TV's currently-instead I have a Panasonic PT56WXF95 HDTV-very nice and
 very reliable)

 Probably other stuff I can't remember right now

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RE: MD: MDLP (Amended Comments)

2000-09-18 Thread Simon Mackay


===BEGIN QUOTE==
I still think LP4 is pretty damned good, but the quality will depend
in large part on the type of music one is recording. It's certainly
good enough for airchecks, which was the primary reason for my
enthusiasm. If you want a long mix for background music, LP4 will
definitely suffice.
===END QUOTE

As far as MDLP goes, I would regard LP2 as being useful for any situation
where quality is desired but it may be desired to achieve a long playing
time, such as longer personal music mixes, "sound-catching" where good
stereo separation is desired and "cart machine" jingle use.

LP4 may be suitable for obtaining "warts and all" airchecks of long radio
broadcasts such as entire announcer shifts (announcer samplers, station
output samplers, station logs); recording background music for places like
shops and restaurants were sound quality doesn't matter (think Muzak);
recording meetings and lectures; and archiving speech-based tapes such as
cassette ministry tapes.

The regular ATRAC1 modes come in handy where quality or compatibility with
legacy MD equipment is desired. For example, they can be used for MD-based
mastering.

With regards,

Simon Mackay

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MD: Interfacing MD Walkmans to OEM stereos in the trendy VWs

2000-09-18 Thread Simon Mackay


Hi everyone!

I have noticed that over the last few years, the new Volkswagen cars,
especially the New Beetle and the Golf, have become very fashionable amongst
the young well-to-do in Europe and Australia. The New Beetle would also be
considered fashionable in North America as well.

In a lot of these situations, the young people would either be buying the
cars through the company that they own; or leasing it (perhaps for tax
advantage and the ability to upgrade the vehicle when the lease terminates).
In these situations, it may be desireable not to mess around with the sound
system; and also the owner may not want to put in a new MD head unit because
of security reasons or that it may look out of place in the VW's
blue-illuminated dashboard. In the case of the New Beetle, there is a
distinctive styling setup where the edges of the audio system are round,
rather than square.

In Australia, I have noticed that most of the current VW lineup, including
the New Beetle, are equipped with single-CD head units that can work with a
very costly dealer-installed optional six-stack CD changer. With these
units, the CD stacker is accessed by one pressing a button labelled CD-C.
Cassette-based head units aren't even offered as a "downgrade"; confined to
the Transporter vans; or available only in less-desireable packages where
you lose all the other desireable options.

From the tone of the list, I have heard many negative comments about vehicle
builders like VW making it hard for us to hook up portable MD and MP3
players to newer factory-supplied car-audio setups. As I said before, this
has caused fellow listmembers to downgrade to vehicle packages that don't
match what they really want or stay away from certain desireable vehicles
when the time comes around to change vehicles; just so they can have a
cassette player to use with their cassette adaptor or a sound system that
has a front-panel CD-IN socket.

Does anyone know if there are any devices that allow an MD changer or MD
Walkman to be hooked in to newer VW sound systems?

With regards,

Simon Mackay

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Re: MD: Other MZ-R900 New features

2000-09-18 Thread las



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"Shawn R. Lin" wrote:

 Heheh, I have to agree with you.  That's why everything I own is a Sony.
 Sounds confusing?  I'm extremely frugal, so I buy broken stuff and fix
 it.  All my televisions, several car stereos, several MD
 players/recorders, CD players, and my VCR's... all were broken Sony's
 that people unloaded for cheap or free.  Sadly, I wish I could say the
 Sony items that I purchased BRAND NEW were immune to problems, but this
 is not the case.  My Mobile ES Sony CD changer will need to be sent in
 for service a SECOND time.  I'd fix it myself, but it's still under
 warranty.  I think my Sony Spressa CD-RW drive is having trouble too.
 It corrupted a CD-RW, and it won't read many CD-RW's that it made a long
 time ago.  Guess I shoulda got a Plextor.

My friend the computer consultant and field engineer just build himself 2 "super"
systems.  He put Plextor 12x CD writers in each.  They are amazing!  Plextor has a
technology that prevents you from getting all of those failed CDRs.  It goes back
and will do what ever it takes to see that your CDR is finished without any "buffer
under run errors" etc.  And man is it fast!!

It can copy a music CD in about 6 minutes!!

 If you say so!!!  I've come across several broken Sony Trinitron
 computer monitors too.  All my TV's are Trinitron, and every single one
 of them have needed a flyback transformer.  Two of them needed the
 transformer when I bought them, one of them had an unrelated problem
 when it was given to me, and blew its transformer later on.

 You're right I'm sure.  I have not had much experience with them.  I have only
 owned on Sony Monitor (I'm using it right now) and amazingly it is the only thing
 from Sony I own that has lasted over 3 years.

 That's the one with the LCD touch screen right?

 Want to sell it cheap?  Heheh, just kidding. ;)

I found it on the internet for $125.  But that still seems like a lot of money for
a remote (and one that might only last a week)


 Larry

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Re: MD: sharp 722-battery indicator does not work sometimes

2000-09-18 Thread Leon


Hi Susan,

The 722, recharges the battery to about 90%, and then the indicator will go
off. It then recharges at a far slower rate (trickle charge is the term, if
I'm not mistaken). Out of the 3.5 hours or so that it takes to get fully
recharged, about an hour is spent on this very slow stage.

Since you don't always use up the same amount of power before you recharge,
the time it takes to reach the 90% stage tends to vary.

If the battery is wearing out, the symptom should be that you're getting a
lot less life out of each recharge. It's only been about 4 months since you
got your 722, so I think there's no problem with the battery itself.

Sometimes the battery (recharge) indicator can be a bit unpredictable.

Hope this helps.

Leon


 sometimes my battery recharge indicator does not work and sometimes it
 does--no predictable pattern--it is recharging but I am wondering if the
 battery is wearing out. I've had it since may 25 2k
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MD: Other MZ-R900 New features

2000-09-18 Thread Lfmcarthy


Ed Heckman writes:

 Cool! I also ordered the blue one. (Supposedly it will ship this Monday.) 
 How does it look? I wonder which one will be the most popular.
 
 I haven't seen a good picture of the display anywhere on the web. It 
 seems to be very small, but packed with information. Can you give a brief 
 review of it? How well does it handle? In other words, how comfortable is 
 it to use the buttons/jog levers while holding it with one or both hands?
  

I think the blue looks nice.  A little more green in it than the blue on the 
R-50.  Slightly irridescent.

The controls work well.  Ergonomics are fine.  Personally, I think Sony 
generally does a good job in this respect.  One thing that takes a little 
getting used to is the right jog is used for the play button.  You push the 
jog in for play.  That is not as nice as just pushing a button.  Otherwise, 
the jogs work as on the R-90.  The right jog is for play control and the 
other is for menus.  Both can be used once you are in the menus for titling 
etc, but both are not required.  You could use one hand to press to select a 
menu choice and the other to scroll between options.  That would be efficient 
if you had both hands free.

The display is fine.  I can't think of anything that was on the R-90 that is 
missing on the R-900 display.  The level meter is horizontal and only goes 
halfway across the display, so it is difficult to tell where the peak level 
is until you get a reference point.  There are no calibration marks for this, 
so that is not great, but it corresponds with the far right hand edge of the 
"rec mode" button.  I wish Sony had not dropped the disc capacity and play 
location meter that is on the R-50.  That was handy, but was dropped on the 
R-90 (R-55?).  Perhaps I was the only one who used it.

A few features are in menu commands that would be nice to have as buttons.  
Some of these are buttons on the remote (display, sound) but I can understand 
the button reduction to be a good cost/complexity reduction opportunity for a 
designer.

The unit still defaults to "headphone" out when you change discs, even if you 
have been using line out.  A previous poster asked about this.  This is the 
same as the R-90, but it is a pain.  I use an Airhead amp to drive my 
Etymotics on planes so I use line out often.

For Larry, I must say, the unit is working great so far.  Completely 
reliable, as I reach the end of week one of operation :)

Regards,

Leland
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RE:MD: Pro Decks

2000-09-18 Thread Stories


Anyone know a good source for professional rack mount minidisc decks?  I =
am looking for Tascam or Sony preferably.

If your in the UK or Europe,
www.thomann.de

always had very good service from them  thay ship to the UK for a flat rate (£10)
good when your buying power amps

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Re: MD: md-l-digest V2 #758

2000-09-18 Thread James Jarvie


 Sharp has pretty reliable.  Aiwa is not too bad
 (before you go saying that
 Sony owns Aiwa, they make totally different products
 in different plants.  I
 have personally never seen an Aiwa product that is a
 Sony Clone).


Re: Aiwa.  I have an Aiwa in-dash CD player.  Worst
piece of SH!T I have ever owned!  I've detailed the
problems here before, so I won't go into them again
(although now there is a new problem with it).  At
least it has an aux input so I can play my MD through it.

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Re: MD: md-l-digest V2 #758

2000-09-18 Thread James Jarvie


Holly's experience reminded me of something stupid
that I did (twice).  Not that Holly did anything that
was less than smart...just her experience reminded me
of what I did. 

I finally decided to stop wasting batteries when
playing my Sharp MT15 in the car.  I hooked it up to
the cigarette lighter with adaptor that I used to use
with my portable CD player.  Now I know that the unit
requires an input of 4.5v from reading this list
(otherwise I would never have known that or even
thought to ask).  Did I check the voltage rating on
the adaptor? Of course not.  It was 6.0v.  The unit
played fine for about 1/2 hour, and then it stopped
playing and the MD display read "Power ?".  Couldn't
get it to work again so I gave up.  

A few days later, I tried again.  Again it worked for
about 1/2 hour and then stopped working.  Finally, I
checked the voltage on the adaptor.  Must have had a
fuse in the adaptor - glad that it did.  My Sharp
seems no worse for the wear.

I am going to go out an try to find a cigarette
lighter adaptor that I can use with my MD (Sharp
MT-15).  I will probably start at Radio Shack (though
I hate them) for want of any other ideas.  Is there
anything else I should know other than 4.5v?  Also,
will I even be able to find one?

Feeling very lucky (and just a bit stupid),

James








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Re: MD: Other MZ-R900 New features

2000-09-18 Thread Ed Heckman


At 9/18/00 3:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] increased the world's knowledge by 
typing:

I wish Sony had not dropped the disc capacity and play 
location meter that is on the R-50.  That was handy, but was dropped on the 
R-90 (R-55?).  Perhaps I was the only one who used it.

You aren't the only one who liked that. I have an R50 and an Aiwa C80. I 
definitely miss this feature on the C80.

As for reliability, the C80 is in the shop for the second time. And I 
only bought it about 2 months ago.  :-(



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MD: video direct

2000-09-18 Thread cosmo


I wanted to let everyone know that my $289 quote (on the Sony JB940
deck) I got from Video Direct (dot com) a week ago is wrong; I called in
an order today, and it's actually about $30 higher.  They said the price
hasn't been $289 in "a long time."

Does anyone know of a better price out there?  And don't say Video
Direct, cause that AIN"T the price!



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Re: MD: md-l-digest V2 #758

2000-09-18 Thread J. Coon


James Jarvie wrote:
 
  
 I am going to go out an try to find a cigarette
 lighter adaptor that I can use with my MD (Sharp
 MT-15).  I will probably start at Radio Shack (though
 I hate them) for want of any other ideas.  Is there
 anything else I should know other than 4.5v?  Also,
 will I even be able to find one?

You need to know what the current draw of the MD recorder is.  The
adapter needs to be the same voltage recommended and have a current
ratting that is higher than the recorder draws.  If you look at the info
you got with the Sharp, it should be listed in the specs.   I would
guess it would be somewhere between 500 ma and 1000 ma. as long as the
adapter has a higher rating  than the unit need, the voltage is the same
as it needs and the plug is the same and connected with the proper
polarity it should work.  If you get something that has interchangeable
plugs on the end, be very careful or they may come apart and get put
back together backwards.  I had an acquaintance that did just that when
pocket calculators came out.  Needless to say, it was toast afterwards.

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RE: MD: Sony ReliabilityOther MZ-R900 New features

2000-09-18 Thread Magic


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Subject: Re: MD: Sony ReliabilityOther MZ-R900 New features



Add to this:

Sony Walkman (cheap one, don't remember it's type), lived for about 13
months.
Sony DiscMan (first Sony discman with ESP, 3 seconds), started jumping
through
discs after 13 months of usage.
Sony CMD-Z1+ (beautifull GSM phone by Sony, one of the RF chips probable
died
after
18 months of usage!)
Sony MDS-S38 (MiniDisc recorder, still works, but has that anoying turn-on
bug
from the MDS-JE510)
Sony MDX-C7900R (MiniDisc Head unit for the car. Lived for 20 months, had
problems loading discs during the last 6 months, died two weeks ago. At the
Sony
service center rigth now)

All the other stuff I've bought which was in general cheaper lived much much
longer than the Sony stuff. So

I've asked my girlfriend to shoot me in the foot or nail my head to the
floor if
I attempt to buy Sony stuff again

Cheers,
Ralph - who doesn't want to have is head nailed to the floor





Maybe you have a problem handling equipment and that's why all of your stuff
broke down...

No offence,

Magic

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Re: MD: Interfacing MD Walkmans to OEM stereos in the trendy VWs

2000-09-18 Thread Simon Gardner


[sorry, can't help with the rest of the post]

In these situations, it may be desireable not to mess around with the sound
system; and also the owner may not want to put in a new MD head unit because
of security reasons or that it may look out of place in the VW's
blue-illuminated dashboard.

Some of the newer Sony headunits have blue displays (as an option) that 
match VW dashboards. The model numbers usually have -RV on the end. (afaik) 
there are also facia panels available that allow you to put a standard DIN 
headunit in and have it match reasonably with the dash (similar materials, 
etc).

After struggling with a portable and a tape adaptor for months, I just 
bought a MD headunit instead. Point taken about owners not wanting to 
affect their car's value - but surely they could just take out the standard 
one and leave it to one side until they sell/give the car back?

-- 
Simon

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Re: MD: Sony Reliability

2000-09-18 Thread Simon Gardner


FWIW, I've got:

ST-S261 tuner  (about 4 years old, still perfect)
Tape desk (can't remember model number but 3 years old, no problems)
Discman (about 2 years old - ESP is a bit less efficient but plays fine)
Clock Radio (5 years old, works fine)
Playstation (still great)
MZ-R55 (coming up to a year old - no problems at all)
MDX-C6500R (few weeks old and brilliant - review/manual for MDCP when I get 
round to it)

Maybe I'm just lucky with Sony stuff..

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Re: MD: Sony Reliability

2000-09-18 Thread J. Coon


Simon Gardner wrote:
 
 FWIW, I've got:
 
 ST-S261 tuner  (about 4 years old, still perfect)
 Tape desk (can't remember model number but 3 years old, no problems)
 Discman (about 2 years old - ESP is a bit less efficient but plays fine)
 Clock Radio (5 years old, works fine)
 Playstation (still great)
 MZ-R55 (coming up to a year old - no problems at all)
 MDX-C6500R (few weeks old and brilliant - review/manual for MDCP when I get
 round to it)
 
 Maybe I'm just lucky with Sony stuff..

Nawwh,  some people are just unlucky with it.  Your experiance matches
mine. I forgot about the clock radio/cd player.
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Re: MD: Other MZ-R900 New features

2000-09-18 Thread las


For Larry, I must say, the unit is working great so far.  Completely
reliable, as I reach the end of week one of operation :)

Believe me, I don't want you to have any problems with it.  As someone who was a
mini disc sales person, the worst thing in the world that I wanted to see was
defective units.

Until the Sharp 701/2 problem we almost never got Sharps back.  We got a few Sony
R50s back.  I have a theory that they apply different standards to the quality
control of Japanese Domestic units then what they "dump" on the US market.

I really believe that the Japanese domestic units are better.  I could be totally
wrong.  But it seems that we had less problems with the Sony units we sold
compared to the number of American units.

Larry

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RE: MD: Interfacing MD Walkmans to OEM stereos in the trendy VWs

2000-09-18 Thread Richard Lang


Simon wrote:

 After struggling with a portable and a tape adaptor for 
 months, I just 
 bought a MD headunit instead. Point taken about owners not wanting to 
 affect their car's value - but surely they could just take 
 out the standard 
 one and leave it to one side until they sell/give the car back?

Fully couldn't agree more.  I used the tape adapter with my E25 for 18
months, better than sticking with tape but indded a struggle.  I also got a
Sony MDX-C6500R as soon as I could afford it, about 2 months ago, and
driving my car hasn't been the same since!  

I still have the old factory headunit that I will stick back in when I sell
the car but I suspect that the factory headunit (1989 double DIN tape deck
that is temporamental at BEST) will be less of a concern to a potential
purchaser than the rest of the car itself (1989 Toyota Celica).  At least I
hope that will be the case!

The MD headunit was not cheap (NZ$800) but worth every cent.  it sounds
great and looks sexier than any headunit I've come across yet.  And it's
easy to use.  For me MD is in it's element most in a portable context, so
car MD just makes sense.  The only things that make me a little dark about
the unit are:

1.  Display - capital letters only (uses CD/calculator-like display
rather than dot matrix, probably because the CD headunits use the same face)
but a real shame when you use lower and upper case a lot, doesn't scroll and
you can't get remaining time in a track.  (minor gripes really)

2.  No MDLP, which despite the odd MD-L prophet of doom sounds like it
will catch on.  I'm interested in getting a Sony 640/940 home separate with
MDLP, but then I think that the main place I'd like the ability to play back
long capacity discs would be in my car on long trips [sigh].

Anyone else out there feeling a little cheated by MDLP?

richard


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Re: MD: md-l-digest V2 #758

2000-09-18 Thread las


James Jarvie wrote:

 Re: Aiwa.  I have an Aiwa in-dash CD player.  Worst
 piece of SH!T I have ever owned!  I've detailed the
 problems here before, so I won't go into them again
 (although now there is a new problem with it).  At
 least it has an aux input so I can play my MD through it.


I have an Aiwa cassette receive in my car.  I really never use the tape
drive because of the Aux jack.  I paid $100 from Sam's Club and that
included 2 speakers!  I have transferred it to 3 different cars and it
is still working.

My youngest son paid a lot more for a JVC unit.  That is a real piece of
SHIT!!!  I don't know how many times he had to return it and they took
months to return it!!

They just don't make things as well as they should.  When you pay $100
(with 2 speakers) for a unit that even has an Aux jack (and preamp outs)
you accept it if it doesn't hold up.  Oh by the way the unit is full
electronic.  No manual controls.

Larry

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Re: MD: Other MZ-R900 New features

2000-09-18 Thread las


Going back and forth like a bunch of little kids that are not getting their way
regarding the reliability of Sony is senseless.  The number of people is statically
insignificant.

I think that the consumer reports survey is more reliable.  Before anyone says,
consumer reports just has it in for Sony, Consumer Reports is constantly giving Sony
products high ratings for features and specs.

It is the readers that are not happy with Sony,

Larry

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Re: MD: md-l-digest V2 #759

2000-09-18 Thread James Jarvie


 Thanks to the comedian Mike Myers, Yiddish has
 become an "in thing".  I wish I
 was fluent it it.  I understand a little and speak
 even less.  A lot of neat
 expressions.
 
 Larry


Never heard of him (then again, he probably has never
heard of me).   Still perhaps a bit of polishing of
what is presumablu your mother tongue, i.e. the use of
the subjunctive, might be in order before
concentrating effort on a new language.

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MD: Sony reliability (OT-ing)

2000-09-18 Thread Malphax Tan


I'm agreeable to the reliability of the Sony portables as my MZR-30 lasted 3
years and the Li-Ion battery is still going strong... The only reason why I
sold it to a friend was because i 'upgraded' to a Sharp 831.

A word of caution though, the reliability of Sony does not extend to their
accessories... the ear buds are fine, but their headphone design does not
ensure durability. I owed a set of EGGO (which i purchased for about 100
USD)it worked fine for less than 8 months before it broke down. I sent it to
Sony for servicing and they quoted me 80 USD, which was for getting the
headband changed. (does that means that the 'phones are US$10 each?) ;)

Anyway, I'm eyeing a pair of Sennheiser (which comes with 3 year warranty that
Sony does not have). 

:)

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Re: MD: video direct 940 price

2000-09-18 Thread David W. Tamkin


Cosmo wrote,

| I wanted to let everyone know that my $289 quote (on the Sony JB940
| deck) I got from Video Direct (dot com) a week ago is wrong; I called in
| an order today, and it's actually about $30 higher.  They said the price
| hasn't been $289 in "a long time."

| Does anyone know of a better price out there?  And don't say Video
| Direct, cause that AIN"T the price!

Oade Brothers offered it for $315, but that was back in August, when Video
Direct offered it for $289.  I don't know whether they've held the line on
the price.  They're at http://www.oade.com.

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Re: MD: Mike Myers

2000-09-18 Thread Rodney Peterson


You may not think you've ever heard of Mike Myers, but odds are almost
100% you have. He's the creative force and the title role in the Austin
Powers films, among other projects.

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Re: MD: Mike Myers

2000-09-18 Thread las


Rodney Peterson wrote:

 You may not think you've ever heard of Mike Myers, but odds are almost
 100% you have. He's the creative force and the title role in the Austin
 Powers films, among other projects.

Rodney,

Unless a person has been in outer space with no communications with earth
what so ever since "Wayne's World", "Church Lady", "Coffee Talk" etc., it
is impossible not to know who he is.

Maybe I'm paranoid (but you know that even paranoid people have enemies) I
detect undertones in his comment that deeply concern me.

For those of you  who understand what I am concerned about, no explanation
is necessary.   For those who do not, no explanation will suffice.

And he's Canadian.  Man those Canadians come down here and just take over
like they own the place G.  Seriously, a lot of the great talent that we
have enjoyed over the years are Canadian born.  Also, much of the
television and movies that we watch are filmed in Canada.

I think that the Canadian government contribute financially to certain
projects.




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