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Hello Rob Mccart!

 RM> I have a PVR with my satellite TV system that has a 1 TB
 RM> hard drive, and more can be added. I collect shows and
 RM> movies on that I don't have time to watch to save for
 RM> later when they are not running new shows as much.

But.. what happens when you unsubscribe from the sat service?  
Do you have to return the PVR?  Or.. can you transfer your  
recorded material to external media?

 AA>> Ideally, I'd like to establish a networked laptop next to my
 >> hi-fi setup and control the music that way.

 RM> My Stereo is fairly old, so getting digital music into it
 RM> is difficult unless I do it through the aforementioned CD/
 RM> DVD player which is directly wired into it.

You could just attach a laptop or a small form factor desktop  
that has the digital material on it.  Then control the play via  
an app or the computer.


 RM> My system was worth close to $2000 about 40 years ago, so
 RM> you can probably triple that for today. It is still
 RM> working well, mostly because I don't abuse it at high
 RM> volume or use it a whole lot really.

My fine speakers developed the infamous foam rot around the  
woofers after 12 yrs. But I found a place in Ottawa that  
specialized in re-foaming existing woofers.  I just removed the  
woofers and just sent those.


 RM> I have (?) 60 or so vinyl records but mostly I only used
 RM> them once to make a copy to cassette tape. I know most
 RM> would argue the sound quality is not as good but I'm not
 RM> such a music nut and I prefer to wear out a tape rather
 RM> than the record. You can always make more tapes or disks
 RM> with the right hardware.

It has been the same process for me above: copy LP to tape  
inorder to preserve the LP.  I liked doing that especially when  
I didn't particularly care for specific songs on an LP.  And..  
I could build theme-based tapes too.  My collection reached  
1200 LPs.


 AA>> A cassette comeback I don't understand. The tapes are
 AA>> fragile and wear out if the mechanics of the player is
 AA>> not up to par.

 RM> I have a number of them that are decades old but I don't
 RM> use them all that much and I always bought high end tapes
 RM> which last better.

I was particularly referring to the fragility of commercially  
recorded cassettes.


 RM> My dual-tape cassette deck was also a
 RM> fairly high end unit worth over $350 when I got it back in
 RM> days of yore..   B)

I thought I had purchased a fine dual-deck cassette player too  
(upwards of $400 at the time) ..but one of the players  
gradually started to fail; I'd be making a high-speed copy and  
one of the recorder or player units would just stop.  
Eventually, I couldn't use the deck for copying anymore.  And  
one of the players would just stop after a few seconds of  
"play" as well.  I still have it.  I just haven't operated it  
in many years since the problem started.


 RM> Record deal - Was approached to do a record with my own
 RM> music but the producer went bankrupt just before things
 RM> got going.

That's an interesting story.  What label was the producer  
affiliated with? That would be a dream for many to be  
"discovered" by a producer who thought their material was  
worthy of promotion. In what genre would you class your music?
-- 
  ../|ug

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