11 Dec
2009
11 Dec
'09
6:43 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
See my other message...
I do not own a DVD player (is that any suprise?).
It *is* a bit of a surprise, actually, since DVDs offer so much (length and quality of footage, lines of resolution, tons of
output options,
media space savings, etc.) for so little. It's one of the few
no-brainer's out there for consumer technology.
AS I said there it comes dopwn to 2 things : (1) DVD players do not meet
my criteria for documention, repairability, etc [1] and (2) what would I
use it for.
FWIW there are many, many, things that most people own and that I don't
simply because I have no use for them. If you do, that's fine.
[1] Those VCRs I mentioned arevery well documented (the service manuals
give internal schemaitcs of the ICs and hybrids, you get waveform data,
and so on).
-tony