Re: [WILDLY OT] Simpsons WAS: Police fence stolen goods on Internet.

[Ian Lowe <ian@xxxxxxx>]

> Tell me more!

My house network has a Server recently upgraded to 108Gb of Storage,
courtesy of a very cheap 60Gb Maxtor Drive, our SoHo Pc's (my wife and
I run are computer contractors), a PC in the living room (which has a
sexy black slimline case), and a dedicated HA PC.

In our Office, we use Cambridge Audio 2.1 Sets, basically a Subwoofer
with the Amp, and two satelite style speakers (with an in-line volme
control). They are >awesome< and at least the match (to my ears
anyway)
of the Bose Acoustimass speakers.

Cambridge Audio were purchased by Creative labs (they make all of the
Creative speakers apart from the really-cheapo-horrible ones) and
recently, they dropped the price on the 2.1 stuff to only £30 a set.
I bought a couple, and use them in the bedroom with the sound coming
from the HA PC and in the Kitchen, where they play the fonrt channel
from the living room's 5.1 Speakers. It means whoever is making dinner
in the kitchen can still listen to what's on the TV, it means that
someone making tea can still hear the football commentary rather than
misisng the game completely, and it allows the same music to play in
the Living Room and Kitchen.

in fact, it's this setup that has given me the WAF needed to go for the
"proper" Home AV Distro set-up I am now planning.. :)

> I was told that you can take stuff off the TiVo but only in ananlogue
> format.

yeah, but that defeats the purpose: you would then need to encode it
again, with the inevitable losses and quality problems.

>> I use VirtualDub
> Great little proggy!

Hell Yes! It's easily the best video processing tool available, and
free too!!

> Did you see the earlier message on DigiGuide and ShowShifter!

sure did. guess what I'm playing with tonight :)

Ian.


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Ian R Lowe. Director, Wintermute Consultancy Ltd.
e-mail: ian@xxxxxxx
Onward and Upward! Towards Ascension!

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