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 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.

AA>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?

Possibly. The unit will accept an external hard drive attached to it
but I'm not sure how it decides what goes where. I'd have to look at
the settings. They recently updated their PVR's and told us to just
dispose of the old one, which has a lot of stuff on it but only had
about a 320 gig drive. It's not really stuff I was keeping other than
to finally find time to watch it once. Usually these places charge
'rent' on the unit for 2 years and then consider that you own it.
If you dropped the service sooner you'd either have to buy out the
balance or return it but, that said, the unit Only works with that
one company so it becomes just an external drive after that.
Hmm.. that said, the drive in it is a standard computer type hard
drive so you could open the thing up and pull it to use in whatever
you wanted if the video is stored in a standard format..

I've been with Shaw Digital (Org. StarChoice) for something like
25 years so the problem has never come up before.

  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.

AA>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.

Could be tricky finding a way to get the feed into the stereo other
than I suppose using the headphone jack into some input on the stereo
but then you are just using it as bigger speakers.. you can't really
copy the music files onto the stereo unless maybe play them and record
it on cassette tapes. What I could do is burn a music DVD and I can
run the DVD player through the Stereo. I've done that before, just not
used it often.

 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.

AA>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.

I think mine are still okay. I haven't looked at them too closely in
a while. Last time I ran it they sounded fine. It has about 12" woofers
and a mid range and a tweeter in each cabinet about 30" high.

 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.

AA>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.

Wow, that's quite a collection.

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.

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

Oh, right.. those were terrible quality. If I got any of those
I'd make a copy on a better quality tape right away.

 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.

AA>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?

That was a LONG time ago. Likely it was under his own label that
no one would remember today. My music was mostly Folk, anti war stuff
at the time was popular. Titles like '100 Million Soldiers' and
'Say Goodbye to Mary Ann' - I'll be seeing her no more.
And please try to understand, I'm going off to war.
Don't tell me I'm just a boy, I have got to go.
I'm not a kid.. I'll be 18.. In a month or so..

Sort of Ironic stuff..

In later years I wrote a Christmas one that most everyone loved
Girl walked out song. 'It Won't Feel Much Like Christams This Year'..
Final line was, When I woke up Christmas morning she was underneath
my tree..   (Which was why people didn't hate it..)

And one that was supposed to be a joke making fun of the old type
Country Music. Another, my girl left me, song. (Write what you know!)

First few lines..
It's been a while now, still I get lonely
And the nights go on and on.
And now and then I think about you girl.
I'd like to send you a pretty flower
For each time I've thought of you
But there aren't that many Roses in the world..

It was supposed to be a joke song mocking the really old '4 chord'
stuff, but most people into country music really liked it.
There's probably a message in there somewhere..    B)

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