OT: HDMI ports

[Richard Kreiss]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net]
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 12:03 PM
> To: Richard Kreiss
> Cc: Filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: OT: HDMI ports
> 
> On 12/3/2010 11:43 AM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> [...]
> > Why the email, just a reminder if you are attaching any Christmas
> > presents to you TV through an HDMI connection and get no video, unplug
> > the set first, not just turning it off with the remote, before
> > thinking that the new device isn't working.  Electronics go into
> > standby mode and are not fully powered off when they are "turned off".
> 
> That's why your motto should be "have you tried turning it off and on
again?"

Ken,

I still think of TV's in terms of the old fashioned tube based TV, which I
only gave away the last one to my wife's co-worker for one of his kids.
When I do stop to think about it, I realize that it is, as I said, just a
computer.

I still marvel at a GPS which has so much computing being done and packaged
in such a small box.  For the most part, people don't appreciate the real
beauty of a GPS.  A TV which puts up a picture of the road you are on.  Now
tells you the name of the street you are turning on to and how soon you will
reach you turn or destination.  This is a device with a radio transceiver,
monitor, text to voice system and so much more that one can hold in your
hand.

Jonny Carson once did a routine where he was hawking "every song ever
written" for the low low price of ........;  this in the days of vinyl
records.  Today, one could almost store all of that on an Ipod.

Richard

 





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