"dave weil" wrote in message

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:20:22 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

"dave weil" wrote in message


I *knew* you couldn't help yourself in regards to this thread.

Shows how clueless you are, Weil. I helped myself very nicely, thank
you.

I'm just surprised that it took you this long to offer *nothing*
in
terms
to the questions posed.

That would be a lie Weil, and one that I expected you to tell.
You're very predictable.

Thank you for fulfilling my expectations.

Thanks for jumping through the hoop I set up for you, Weil. It's
predictable that you'll reject anything that involves modern
technology and bite any hand that offers a modern solution to your
immediate problem. There is no known solution to your larger problem.

So, you expect me to transcribe close to or over a thousand of hours
of archive material and spend probably close to a thousand dollars on
additional hard drive space and/or DVD burners, computer upgrades,
editing software, interfaces simply because I want to continue to view
my archive material as well as dumping the occasional digitally saved
program off of my TIVOesque satellite receiver.

If you are going to edit that much stuff, what's the alternative?

I'd rather spend another $150 on a dual-deck VCR system, which make
editing just as easy as doing it on a computer.

Prove that your $150 worth of hardware would make editing just as easy as
doing it on the computer.

Yes, eventually I *will* probably dump some of the more important
archive material to digital in the future. However, the majority of
the material is stuff that wouldn't benefit from such an arrangement
and is just as easily accessed as currently configured without wasting
countless hours in transcription.

Prove that you have to waste as many hours of your personal time to
digitally transcribe the material in question as you claim.

The main reason that I needed a short term solution is that I'm taping
three different language classes on satellite *and* trying to catch
all of the West Wings on videotape and my hard drive space on my
satellite receiver is maxed out.

One thing that going to a computer-based solution would do, is provide a
ready means to expand hard drive space available for video capture.

I need to dump them without spending
an arm and a leg on additional hardware and software.

So where is the bill-of-materials proving that the necessary upgrades would
cost and arm and a leg?

Until my deck
died, this wasn't even an issue.

...in your mind.

Now that I have a replacement for it,
my problem is solved, no thanks to you.

True, I'm not a retailer of retro-technology.

But a big shoutout to the RAO poster who helped me out.

I'm glad that someone had some near-junk to sell you.

Ironically, it was a poster whom you despise
and who thinks is one of the biggest problems with RAO.

The fact that he wheels in deals in retro-technology is irrelevant to his
anti-audio behavior on RAO.

Thing is, he
stepped to the plate and helped someone else out, shipping the VCR
before he even gets payment. Pretty cool, eh? (I'm sure you can find
something suitably snarky to say here).

Been there, done that. Look, I'm used to taking flames for suggesting that
existing technology be used, instead of retro-technology. Especially from
you and your little clique of Luddites, Weil,