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i don't want to pay $10+ for batteries every couple of months.
I finally bought some rechargeable batteries, but it was around that time that my camera went kerflooey, as it now eats battery power like nothing else.
Do they last long enough that if you're taking, say, fifty or so pictures with flash all day, they'll be okay? I'm very conservative about taking pictures, even with a digital camera, but I found that AA wouldn't last too long if you were taking a lot of flash pictures, which is what happens indoors.
There is also the extra security of knowing you can also pop into a store and get batteries if you forget to recharge and leave the spare or the charger at home.
I like security! But it doesn't look like I'll get it. Very few of the decent cameras I looked at use AAs. They seem to be moving away from that.
I can only speak for my Canon SLR, but we can easily take a hundred flash pictures on a fully charged battery.
xkcd takes on Windows 7
eta: It's rather anti-windows.
I thought that was a pretty cheap shot.
Ok, now I'm reading all kinds of horror stories about HD from cable boxes not working with receivers. Gaaaaaaaaaaaah. I just want to be able to plug shit in and have it work. Is that really so much to ask?
[The real problem is that most of these forum posts are from 2006, and I have no idea how accurate any of this information still is.]
Couldn't you just run HDMI to the TV and then digital audio from the TV to the receiver?
Couldn't you just run HDMI to the TV and then digital audio from the TV to the receiver?
Yes, that's what I suspect we'll end up doing.
Wow. My receiver mentioned earlier already shipped. Nice.
