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calimacThe other thing I did this weekend was hook up our new DVD player. The old one had gone wonky, and in looking for a replacement B. noticed a well-rated one from Toshiba which includes both DVD and VCR players. This was further pleasing, as we still have a fair number of VCR tapes - including home-made ones of old Mythcon programs and the like - which we haven't been able to watch for years because our old VCR player was also broken and fixing or replacing it seemed like too much of a hurdle.
To my surprise, I was able to toss aside most of the verbiage in the manual and hook it up quite efficiently. The manual wants you to run the cable feed through the machine, but the old machine had had nothing of the sort and I didn't think it would be necessary this time either. So I didn't, and it turned out all right.
Once it was connected, it was time to check it out. When I'd turned the tv on, what was playing was the DVR recording of the last few minutes of something B. had taped, running into the next show on that channel, a recent episode of Celebrity Jeopardy with Seth Green in it. So to test out the DVD player, I put in an old episode of Buffy with Seth Green in it. Then to test the VCR, I wanted a tape that'd be replaceable if something turned out wrong with the machine, so I took a commercial tape of The Producers, the original movie, which I hadn't seen in some time. I watched it as far as my favorite line in the movie, which is when Gene Wilder says, "I'm wet! I'm wet! I'm hysterical and I'm wet!"
So now I'll also be able to watch the rarer tapes, and I'll need to do that periodically, because lack of watching tapes is what caused the heads on the old machine to freeze up and become nonfunctional.
To my surprise, I was able to toss aside most of the verbiage in the manual and hook it up quite efficiently. The manual wants you to run the cable feed through the machine, but the old machine had had nothing of the sort and I didn't think it would be necessary this time either. So I didn't, and it turned out all right.
Once it was connected, it was time to check it out. When I'd turned the tv on, what was playing was the DVR recording of the last few minutes of something B. had taped, running into the next show on that channel, a recent episode of Celebrity Jeopardy with Seth Green in it. So to test out the DVD player, I put in an old episode of Buffy with Seth Green in it. Then to test the VCR, I wanted a tape that'd be replaceable if something turned out wrong with the machine, so I took a commercial tape of The Producers, the original movie, which I hadn't seen in some time. I watched it as far as my favorite line in the movie, which is when Gene Wilder says, "I'm wet! I'm wet! I'm hysterical and I'm wet!"
So now I'll also be able to watch the rarer tapes, and I'll need to do that periodically, because lack of watching tapes is what caused the heads on the old machine to freeze up and become nonfunctional.
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