Elekta
01-03-2007, 11:26 PM
Pretty staggering on the flat panel Samsung, I see a football game on one side, and on the other an iTunes window watching a conversion of 55gigs of a friend's wma music getting ipod ready and that was during the OU loss the other night...all in all a pretty sweet evening. That and I dumped over 5 thousand jpegs on it so during the day instead of cartoons the kids are watching a slide show of last summer's Carbondale trip. Man your digital pics look so much better on a 1080 screen. The 1.5 yr/old is pointing at himself on the tv and laughing his little butt off.
My friend with over 4 thousand CD's just had another baby girl and so there went the music room....over 75 boxes of cds into the room above his garage. I'm just signin em out like a book at the library...200 at a time into the vaio changer...ripped at full strength into a wma onto the mamma hard drive, and then let itunes sort it out for me. The new MS Media Center is so lame I stopped using it entirely a week ago...lasted exactly 25 days before I said **** it. Maybe if they fix it, I might use it, but the vaio is a cranking little rip master, and their dvd player upconverting video to HD is pretty remarkable...it was like somebody took my dolby off (old xlII slang) the picture on my panel jumped out at me.
I almost bought a system called PC alchemy, but in the end buying the Sony Vaio Digital Living System was cheaper on the internet and with no sales tax, there was a decent savings. I gave the two 180g hd's to my techie as he swapped in two 750 Seagate SATA's (w'evertf that is)..so I am 1.5tb strong.
Up next, I have 6 400' reels of super 8 mm film that my local photo lab is going to SOA burn dvd's for me for a cheap $/ft, and then those get ripped into the system. I can't wait to bring that NM balloon fest from 84 into my living room. I have 8mm of billwalton and me standing next to the soundboard at the greeks in berkeley in 85 that I can't wait to see again.
Have both Toy Stories ripped as my first two videos in the HD library. Those won't get scratched again.
Anyway, I'm like a kid with a new toy. Sitting on my couch with a wireless keyboard toggling thru all these formats, watching the rain in the backyard listening to some Chris Whitely sing some blues acoustic smokestack lightnin and watching bball and itunes on the 42 incher.
out
happy new year....I'll be M5Tin by march (my hopefull prediction)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ggil-tx/insane.jpg
I'm up to 52 thousand songs already.
My friend with over 4 thousand CD's just had another baby girl and so there went the music room....over 75 boxes of cds into the room above his garage. I'm just signin em out like a book at the library...200 at a time into the vaio changer...ripped at full strength into a wma onto the mamma hard drive, and then let itunes sort it out for me. The new MS Media Center is so lame I stopped using it entirely a week ago...lasted exactly 25 days before I said **** it. Maybe if they fix it, I might use it, but the vaio is a cranking little rip master, and their dvd player upconverting video to HD is pretty remarkable...it was like somebody took my dolby off (old xlII slang) the picture on my panel jumped out at me.
I almost bought a system called PC alchemy, but in the end buying the Sony Vaio Digital Living System was cheaper on the internet and with no sales tax, there was a decent savings. I gave the two 180g hd's to my techie as he swapped in two 750 Seagate SATA's (w'evertf that is)..so I am 1.5tb strong.
Up next, I have 6 400' reels of super 8 mm film that my local photo lab is going to SOA burn dvd's for me for a cheap $/ft, and then those get ripped into the system. I can't wait to bring that NM balloon fest from 84 into my living room. I have 8mm of billwalton and me standing next to the soundboard at the greeks in berkeley in 85 that I can't wait to see again.
Have both Toy Stories ripped as my first two videos in the HD library. Those won't get scratched again.
Anyway, I'm like a kid with a new toy. Sitting on my couch with a wireless keyboard toggling thru all these formats, watching the rain in the backyard listening to some Chris Whitely sing some blues acoustic smokestack lightnin and watching bball and itunes on the 42 incher.
out
happy new year....I'll be M5Tin by march (my hopefull prediction)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/ggil-tx/insane.jpg
I'm up to 52 thousand songs already.