DVD Recorder Saga A New Tale...........

Saturday afternoon I ran into Rochester and hit the Best Buy store looking for a replacement dvd recorder/vcr.
I had looked on line and they advertised a Sony model but the web site said they didn't have any in the store. I think they had a whooping total of 4 combination machines. So I looked them over. Low and behold, one of them was the Sony machine I had looked at on line. So I kind of compared them all. Decided to pass on the Panasonic machine. One because of the experience I just had with one, and two because it was the most expensive at $308. I settled on the Sony machine. It looked pretty straight forward and I can't remember now if it was the cheapest model at $199. I started to walk away and stopped at the dvds to see what was on sale and a sales guy walked up to me and asked if I had everything I needed. I said I thought I did. He asked if I had all the cords I needed. I said I thought I did. Do you have an HDMI cord? Nope. Well you need one of those. Um, okay. $70 later I hard one. All the time I am thinking, I didn't have one with my last machine.
Turns out I probably should have had one. :p With the old machine when just the TV was on the picture was pretty sharp, but when you turned the machine on you lost just a little bit of that sharpness. Now on the new machine with the HDMI cord, the picture is looking pretty sharp with the machine off or on. :)

Saving the best news for last...
I was more pissed off about the old machine dying because I had easily 100+ dvds that hadn't been finalized and therefore lost. Well... I threw one in to just see if it would play on the new machine and IT DID!!!!!! Then I tried to record onto one of them, and IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMg, is it really possible that I haven't losted all those movies and shows that I had recorded?
How did I ever get that lucky???????????????????
If I had the money, I would buy a couple more of these machines and have them on hand. :)


Okay, now I am paranoid. Sitting here singing the praises of the new machine, and I started to watch a show, and I can't decide the mouths not matching the voices? Ugh.......
I don't know, now it seems okay?

Today's WTF Moment Brought to You By A.I.G............

This coming from the company that the US government, aka YOU and ME, bailed out.

A.I.G. Balks at Claims From Jet Ditching in Hudson
by Mary Williams Walsh
Friday, June 12, 2009
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For the first couple of days after his flight ditched into the Hudson River, Paul Jorgenson was just glad to be alive. But then he started to need his laptop, his wallet, his car keys -- all the essentials he had stowed under his seat and left behind in the sinking plane.

A pleasant woman at US Airways told him not to worry; he would be made whole for his losses. But then the matter shifted to US Airways' insurer, the American International Group, operating under government stewardship since its bailout last fall.

"Everything went downhill," said Mr. Jorgenson, a software executive in Charlotte, N.C., whose laptop and keys have not been recovered.

When a homeowner has a burglary or a driver has a crash, all it normally takes is a call to the insurance company and a description of the loss to activate the policy. But aviation liability insurance is different. It is activated by a finding of negligence on the part of an airline. If there is no negligence, then arguably there is no liability, and no obligation to pay claims.

That poses a problem for the passengers of US Airways Flight 1549. They suffered real losses and injuries, but they are widely perceived as having been saved from sudden, violent death by their heroic and quick-thinking flight crew, led by Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger.

"Insurance companies try to protect their assets, obviously," said Bruce D. Chadbourne, a co-author of the book, "Introduction to Aviation Insurance and Risk Management," and a professor in the business school at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. With the airline wearing a halo, A.I.G. "is going to play hardball."
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