Oh good, Bev, I am so glad you like the Roku! I LOVE mine, and hated the streaming on the Wii.
Saffron: He's my husband. Mal: Well, who in the damn galaxy ain't?
'Trash'
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javachik - Mar 03, 2011 2:12:36 pm PST #16187 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2011 2:20:45 pm PST #16188 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's a good brand for a sound bar? I don't need a DVD player or anything built in--I finally got my region-free Blu Ray player.
Cass - Mar 03, 2011 2:25:48 pm PST #16189 of 25501
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
The Samsungs seem (SEEM!) to be getting good rating where I am reading around, ita.
tommyrot - Mar 03, 2011 2:30:38 pm PST #16190 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We did have to send it back because the dvd player locked up.
My Sony Blue Ray player sometimes locks up. Which is annoying, as it has no buttons - not even an on/off. So when it locks up the remote can't shut it off, so I have to unplug it to reboot it.
Almost feels like technology has gone backwards - I never had to unplug and plug in my VCRs or DVD players when they messed up.
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2011 3:24:42 pm PST #16191 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I never had to unplug and plug in my VCRs or DVD players when they messed up.
It's what I gotta do with the TiVo. It's kinda scary, because I know I'm rebooting ungracefully.
Beverly - Mar 03, 2011 4:07:47 pm PST #16192 of 25501
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
We have to unplug the PS3 or the Roku to plug in the region-free dvd player. I could so do without the sound bar dvd player, really, except we'd still have to use an outlet for the sound bar.
At least it's not as bad as when we had the basket of remotes, but not enough connectors on the tv and so had to run everything through a router box that had no remote. So if you finished watching a dvd and wanted to switch to the dvr, you had to walk all the way across the room and actually push a button to switch machines. I do miss the 5-disc dvd carousel, though. That thing was made for lazy people. You could watch the extended versions of FotR, TTT, and half of RotK without ever having to get up and change the dvd!
Vortex - Mar 03, 2011 7:05:30 pm PST #16193 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
You know what the problem with technology is? You never know what is wrong. When there's a stutter, is it the digital signal, is it the tivo, is it the new TV? Feh.
§ ita § - Mar 05, 2011 6:52:33 am PST #16194 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You know how they say any press is good press? Based on half-remembered discussions here, I totally started shopping for a new Vizio TV before I thought to come back and check.
SAMSUNG. I'm supposed to be looking at Samsung.
§ ita § - Mar 05, 2011 6:14:15 pm PST #16195 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
OMG, 1080p is creepy.
Vortex - Mar 05, 2011 6:21:34 pm PST #16196 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
so, wierdly, on one or two channels, there's a line of something like static at the top of the screen. It goes away when I put it in widescreen mode. That's okay, right?