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  • #16
    Shengmei, funny! I stayed up late the other night reading--putting together info from my old cell biology text book, a very old anatomy & physiology text, and some more up-to-date info on the internet. I wish someone would tell me it is immoral not to have replaced those two books with more recent ones! The topic I wanted to read up on-- membrane and vessicle glucose transporters were unknown when the A&P book was published, and the first GLUT was documented the year the Cell book was published, so did not make it to the book except in a theoretical way. Looks like the theory was right on, though. Oh, uh, but no one asked, did they?

    I know my husband copies and edits DVDs for work, so I guess we have the equipment in the household, but it isn't connected to the TV, which is on antenna only and in the basement so that the picture is horrible and it takes a lot of twisting of the in-basement antenna to get the few stations we do get.

    Okay, let me step back out of this conversation.
    "There is some ontological doubt as to whether it may even be possible in principle to nail down these things in the universe we're given to study." --text msg from my kid

    "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." --Frederick Douglass

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    • #17
      I'm too much of a "tech snob" to ever use a TiVo, but that's just me. That's because Time Warner bought TiVO in order to control it. Which is good for them, but I like my stuff freed from anyone's clutches and manipulated as I please. I don't mean doing anything illegal of course, but rather, if I want to edit only certain segments and save it as on a CD, DVD, or on a flash drive under a specific format, I want to be able to do that.

      In short, I want features and controls beyond what normal TiVO would allow. And for that, I have to build my own. That is... if I ever get around to doing that. (Oh, and as an added bonus, building your own means you can record without paying Time Warner a monthly fee. Something they most definitely would not like. )

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      • #18
        YEah if you are really techie you can do some sweet mods too. Dh was toying with the idea but didn't want to ruin our free TIVO - LOL. Or building from scratch, hmmmm. Maybe that will be the backup plan.

        I don't know about immoral - LOL. But it sure makes life easier.

        I remember when I Was pregnant with my first they had some ice breaker game at lamaze class, and a question was, "what are you missing to be here tonight?" Everyone was talking about Survivor or something. Dh and I are like, uh, heard of DVR??? OF course I always say the thing makes me stupid because I have no idea what time or what channel any of my shows are - just know they appear on my TIVO and I Watch then whenever. Zipping through commercials. Ah, so totally spoiled.

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        • #19
          I guess I'm one of those who only watches local stations as I can't justify the cost of cable or the alike. We'd never leave the couch if we had all those channels.

          When I need to record a show I have a programable vcr wich just costs me the electricity & buying a new tape very now & then.

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