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gothams3rdrobin) wrote2006-05-27 09:51 pm
gothams3rdrobin) wrote2006-05-27 09:51 pm
It's just bloody typical, isn't it!
Every time I buy myself some little gadget or other, I discover that in order to use it I have to upgrade the thing I bought it for!
Today's case in point; there's this computer device on sale at Argos that allows you to record off your stereo so you can record all those beloved old tapes and vinyls onto mp3. Awesome, I thought, as I have a fairly modest collection.
So, I used the last of my birthday money (ie a cheque I haven't cashed yet 'cause it would just have been sucked into my overdraft) towards the cost of this device. It's a tiny little thing, not much bigger than a walkman! I brought it home and set it up on my laptop, and have a go at recording something. I was a little concerned it wouldn't work as my hi-fi was a birthday present when I was thirteen and no longer has a working tape recorder, but it plays everything alright and I haven't yet been in a position to replace it. Especially since whatever I buy next will have to have a record deck, and they're fast becoming rare.
So, how to connect it to the new device. Well, there's no line-out jack on the hi-fi and I don't have any other types of cables that would allow me to connect it through both the speaker jacks (and it would need to be both or I'd have problems with stereo recording). So I thought I'd try and be clever and connect it through the headphone socket.
No joy...
So, in order to be able to do this I would need to buy myself a new stereo. I can get one that fits my requirements from Argos, for about eighty-five quid, and this morning I picked up a cheque for about ninety-five for the dividends from my company shares. However, I was contemplating using this money to buy myself a new television set that will allow me to watch my US dvds without having to turn on the desktop PC! *sigh* Before I moved here I was using my mother's tv, which is capable of displaying the NTSC signals from my multiregional DVD player, so I was unaware I was gonna have a problem with my own tv....
So my dilemma is this; do I use the money to replace my hi-fi or my tv? Both of which are ancient and no longer fully meet my requirements.
I wouldn't throw the old ones away, but keep them both in my bedroom for my own personal use, but it would be nice to have better ones in the living room. I don't even need top-of-the-range stuff - unlike Kris the comics guy who just shelled out nearly two grand for a 50inch HDTV he laughing refers to as the 'Enterprise Viewscreen' *giggles* Granted, he was replacing a similarly ancient tv that was so badly damaged he'd been watching everything in blue and white for the last three years. But still, I don't need anything bigger than the 20 inch I currently have. Just so long as it won't stop working once they switch off the analogue signal in 2008.
Gah! I hate when this happens.
Today's case in point; there's this computer device on sale at Argos that allows you to record off your stereo so you can record all those beloved old tapes and vinyls onto mp3. Awesome, I thought, as I have a fairly modest collection.
So, I used the last of my birthday money (ie a cheque I haven't cashed yet 'cause it would just have been sucked into my overdraft) towards the cost of this device. It's a tiny little thing, not much bigger than a walkman! I brought it home and set it up on my laptop, and have a go at recording something. I was a little concerned it wouldn't work as my hi-fi was a birthday present when I was thirteen and no longer has a working tape recorder, but it plays everything alright and I haven't yet been in a position to replace it. Especially since whatever I buy next will have to have a record deck, and they're fast becoming rare.
So, how to connect it to the new device. Well, there's no line-out jack on the hi-fi and I don't have any other types of cables that would allow me to connect it through both the speaker jacks (and it would need to be both or I'd have problems with stereo recording). So I thought I'd try and be clever and connect it through the headphone socket.
No joy...
So, in order to be able to do this I would need to buy myself a new stereo. I can get one that fits my requirements from Argos, for about eighty-five quid, and this morning I picked up a cheque for about ninety-five for the dividends from my company shares. However, I was contemplating using this money to buy myself a new television set that will allow me to watch my US dvds without having to turn on the desktop PC! *sigh* Before I moved here I was using my mother's tv, which is capable of displaying the NTSC signals from my multiregional DVD player, so I was unaware I was gonna have a problem with my own tv....
So my dilemma is this; do I use the money to replace my hi-fi or my tv? Both of which are ancient and no longer fully meet my requirements.
I wouldn't throw the old ones away, but keep them both in my bedroom for my own personal use, but it would be nice to have better ones in the living room. I don't even need top-of-the-range stuff - unlike Kris the comics guy who just shelled out nearly two grand for a 50inch HDTV he laughing refers to as the 'Enterprise Viewscreen' *giggles* Granted, he was replacing a similarly ancient tv that was so badly damaged he'd been watching everything in blue and white for the last three years. But still, I don't need anything bigger than the 20 inch I currently have. Just so long as it won't stop working once they switch off the analogue signal in 2008.
Gah! I hate when this happens.
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I have stacks of vinyl out in the garage, and no turntable. Actually, the stereo with the turntable may still be around ... somewhere ... but whether it still works, I do not know. Pity, it'd be nice to be able to get some of the stuff onto the pooter instead of forever having to upgrade to CD. I've got so much stuff twice, on vinyl and CD. At least I never upgraded my vinyl onto tape, or I'd have everything three times.
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I would have liked to have bought a VCR that played that format but at the time I couldn't afford it. Ironically, Argos are now only selling VCRs that are NTSC capable, and at the same price...*scowls*
That device for getting the computer to speak to the Hi-fi is about forty quid - which is not that much for a computer component, but I only managed thanks to left over birthday money - and it looks like it'll be really useful once I get a compatible hi-fi. Dad would appreciate getting his vinyls copied too.
I hear you about the multiple copies. I have lots of those too.