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The perversity of inanimate objects
2004-01-09 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearI bought a new DVD/CD/whatever player on Sunday to replace our old DVD and CD players (which were becomming unreliable). The new one died (no video) Tuesday night. Last night I bought a replacement, a rather nice JVC XV-N55SL for $100. They seem to have switched to white, rather than the old black which I preferred, but... (Our other video equipment is also JVC, and the remote on the DVD player also controls the TV. Not the VCR, the idiots!)
As I was about to head out to buy the DVD player,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flower_cat called to tell me that the VCR had just eaten a tape. Good Guys, where I went for the DVD and had a good selection of JVC, had only one JVC VCR identical to the one that had just croaked. Pass. I also passed on the 3-year replacement warranty -- $35 on a $100 device seemed excessive.
Meanwhile, back on Sunday, I took the old DVD player upstairs for the kids to use. But the TV (which one of our friends brought over a couple of weeks ago for the kids to use) doesn't have AV inputs -- just an antenna input. DVD players, of course, don't have RF outputs. And the recently-deceased VCR (which still has a functional tuner and does have RF out) doesn't seem to have any way to pass its AV inputs through.
So I'm off to Fry's again, looking for both a new VCR for the living room, and an RF modulator for upstairs. GAAAK!
As I was about to head out to buy the DVD player,
flower_cat called to tell me that the VCR had just eaten a tape. Good Guys, where I went for the DVD and had a good selection of JVC, had only one JVC VCR identical to the one that had just croaked. Pass. I also passed on the 3-year replacement warranty -- $35 on a $100 device seemed excessive.Meanwhile, back on Sunday, I took the old DVD player upstairs for the kids to use. But the TV (which one of our friends brought over a couple of weeks ago for the kids to use) doesn't have AV inputs -- just an antenna input. DVD players, of course, don't have RF outputs. And the recently-deceased VCR (which still has a functional tuner and does have RF out) doesn't seem to have any way to pass its AV inputs through.
So I'm off to Fry's again, looking for both a new VCR for the living room, and an RF modulator for upstairs. GAAAK!
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Date: 2004-01-09 08:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-09 02:51 pm (UTC)I couldn't find a modulator at Fry's; I'll try at Radio Shack this evening. I'm hoping I won't have to shell out a C-note for a combo player (which do appear to have modulators).
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Date: 2004-01-09 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-10 08:49 am (UTC)