Hello my name is Jeff Deprey, now you know someone that has HDTV:)
As far as it not being around, I get 3 local channels out of 4 around me that broadcast it.
I also get 2 HBO's 2 SHOTIMES.
Jay Leno looks unblievable, Most movies are up converted from film so its not pure HD but it looks 400X better than a NTSC tv picture.
the PBS and Jay Leno broadcasts are true HD recorded with HD camera's, that what you want to look at to be WOW'ed , you might just not think many people have HDTV in your area, you may be suprised, I know serveral people around me that have it. I have a beta HD cable box that allows the reception but the 4 local stations in charlotte broadcast the local stuff , you can just by a antenna.
Cell phones work good, its my girl friend that had to have the phone in the house. dont ask me to explain, but I still end up answering it even though I swore I wouldnt.
Maybe you are right but when I hit the call trace sequence they told me , it tol dme the number couldnt be traced back and hung up, so it never reported the number to them, I didnt want to know the number I just wanted it to log the call , I wanted to log that the same service was calling me over and over and hanging up on me when they didnt have the people to answer the call they made.
Imagine tring to explain that to someone even 5 years ago that you have to deal with a system that calls you and then hangs up cause they system didnt have actual people to answer the call, when they called you in the first place.
Currently I have had a bad problem with some automated phone systems calling me at least 5-6 times a day and hanging up! When I tried to call block them it tells me the number cant be traced cause its UNKNOWN NAME NUMBER (my caller ID shows this as well).
I called a Bell South number to report harrasment cause it was making me so pissed. I mean it has went on for weeks and 5-6 times a day gets old just to get up to see the caller id.
Bell south told me a could have it traced and it would report the number to them, but again this told me it couldnt be traced at all. so I cant even get it in a report to take to court if I ever found out who was doing this.
Bell South also has a phone number that is such a joke it isnt even funny, every option returns a message then hangs up on you, cant take to a single actual person about being harrased. the Option i figured was for me was about calls that just hang up on you after you answer them, when I hit this option it simply stated that automated systems ring people phones and then they company dont have enough people to actully talk to you so it hangs up.
What kind of spam is that? bother me while I am playing games on my PC or watching TV then hang up before I can even tell some I dont want none take me off your list! seems to me like something is wrong with that, should be a F'ing law or something.
YOu might find this link infomative as I did, it is verbatim what the hpone number and Option 1 told me that made me so upset.
Bell South: (Anoyance Call Center)
This number
704-780-2969
or this webpage:
http://contact.bellsouth.com/acc/telemarketing_c al ls.html
Read that tell me that aint BS!
Then a person at Bell South , wich I yelled at so much I think he just gave up, tried to sell me the service mentioned in the first post, Privacy Director, wich sounds like a great idea, if it where free, T mean seeing that people prett ymuch are useing the phone system as a way to sell stuff so much, seems far to me.
I told him its nuts cause I dont want to pay to be not listed in the phone book (always has seemed wierd to pay to not be listed, shouldnt this be the other way around?) then they charge me 7$ a month for called ID, them they probally charge the company doing the marketing SPAM, to not show where they are calling from, then want to charge me again to black it, my minimum phone bill is aready around 35$ a month for just a single phone line, cause I wanted caller ID so badly.
All this seems like a scam to me, and I would hope that something is done about it, mostly about automated systems that call and hang up on you cause they dont have a person ready to sell you something when there system rings your phone.
The whole thig has got me very very upset.
THe privicy director does sound nice and I bet it works well, but damn , it just grips me to pay another 3$ to Bell South.
The price sounds alittle high, for what we all know is in that box, but i probally couldnt make on of these things and make it look good in my stereo rack, wich BTW is important to me.
I have a problem in my house this thing would be great for.
Right now I run a fiber optic cable from my SB live card from my PC through the wall to me main stereo unit.
This works great but I have to get up and go in the other room to load new music, its a pain in the ass, It would be nice to be able to see the names of the directories well enough from the LCD display to load a album from the couch. I have thought about vga to ntsc converter and a wireless mouse for that room, but those things dont look that good on a TV and are like 150$
Can someone comment on how good the LCD looks for browseing directories? i have all my MP3's in a main direcory with a directory for each artist, in each artist directory i have a directory for every album etc...
Another good thing I see about this is, that I could play songs from the LCD display while my PC is doing other things I dont want to interupt such as a video game or something. this device is more than a WINAMP remote controle since it sounds like all processing is done by this device and only data is transfered over the ethernet. where right now with a fiber optic cable the main pc holding the files processes them and plays them and only the audio itself is sent to the stereo.
This thing sounds great I might have to get one:)
I really think even though they have done some
things that might restrict people from having it
easy to compete, I cant say I see Microsoft as
being a Monopoly, I mean if they were the only
OS you could buy then they would be.
But if as people on slashdot are really proof to
there being alot of people who use and perfer to
use another OS besides Windows.
Its about having the choice to choose.
I my mother wanted to go buy Red Hat she could
but she perfers not to.
There is no crime in having products that people
have herd of and are popular enough that people
choose them over others, you might get upset
cause you feel another OS is better and should
be the most used but people decide this and
marketing and just plain being around for awhile
has gave MS a edge.
But i dont see where you can say people cant go
out right now and buy another OS.
I am not all for microsoft but at the same time
dont think its right to bash them such as people
do here, if you dont like it dont use it.
Slashdot Mirror
BTW I watched Band of Brothers last night in Full HD and it is so bad ass, feel sorry for the rest of you that didnt :)
Hello my name is Jeff Deprey, now you know someone that has HDTV :)
As far as it not being around, I get 3 local channels out of 4 around me that broadcast it.
I also get 2 HBO's 2 SHOTIMES.
Jay Leno looks unblievable, Most movies are up converted from film so its not pure HD but it looks 400X better than a NTSC tv picture.
the PBS and Jay Leno broadcasts are true HD recorded with HD camera's, that what you want to look at to be WOW'ed , you might just not think many people have HDTV in your area, you may be suprised, I know serveral people around me that have it. I have a beta HD cable box that allows the reception but the 4 local stations in charlotte broadcast the local stuff , you can just by a antenna.
Cell phones work good, its my girl friend that had to have the phone in the house. dont ask me to explain, but I still end up answering it even though I swore I wouldnt.
Maybe you are right but when I hit the call trace sequence they told me , it tol dme the number couldnt be traced back and hung up, so it never reported the number to them, I didnt want to know the number I just wanted it to log the call , I wanted to log that the same service was calling me over and over and hanging up on me when they didnt have the people to answer the call they made.
Imagine tring to explain that to someone even 5 years ago that you have to deal with a system that calls you and then hangs up cause they system didnt have actual people to answer the call, when they called you in the first place.
Currently I have had a bad problem with some automated phone systems calling me at least 5-6 times a day and hanging up! When I tried to call block them it tells me the number cant be traced cause its UNKNOWN NAME NUMBER (my caller ID shows this as well).
c al ls.html
I called a Bell South number to report harrasment cause it was making me so pissed. I mean it has went on for weeks and 5-6 times a day gets old just to get up to see the caller id.
Bell south told me a could have it traced and it would report the number to them, but again this told me it couldnt be traced at all. so I cant even get it in a report to take to court if I ever found out who was doing this.
Bell South also has a phone number that is such a joke it isnt even funny, every option returns a message then hangs up on you, cant take to a single actual person about being harrased. the Option i figured was for me was about calls that just hang up on you after you answer them, when I hit this option it simply stated that automated systems ring people phones and then they company dont have enough people to actully talk to you so it hangs up.
What kind of spam is that? bother me while I am playing games on my PC or watching TV then hang up before I can even tell some I dont want none take me off your list! seems to me like something is wrong with that, should be a F'ing law or something.
YOu might find this link infomative as I did, it is verbatim what the hpone number and Option 1 told me that made me so upset.
Bell South: (Anoyance Call Center)
This number
704-780-2969
or this webpage:
http://contact.bellsouth.com/acc/telemarketing_
Read that tell me that aint BS!
Then a person at Bell South , wich I yelled at so much I think he just gave up, tried to sell me the service mentioned in the first post, Privacy Director, wich sounds like a great idea, if it where free, T mean seeing that people prett ymuch are useing the phone system as a way to sell stuff so much, seems far to me.
I told him its nuts cause I dont want to pay to be not listed in the phone book (always has seemed wierd to pay to not be listed, shouldnt this be the other way around?) then they charge me 7$ a month for called ID, them they probally charge the company doing the marketing SPAM, to not show where they are calling from, then want to charge me again to black it, my minimum phone bill is aready around 35$ a month for just a single phone line, cause I wanted caller ID so badly.
All this seems like a scam to me, and I would hope that something is done about it, mostly about automated systems that call and hang up on you cause they dont have a person ready to sell you something when there system rings your phone.
The whole thig has got me very very upset.
THe privicy director does sound nice and I bet it works well, but damn , it just grips me to pay another 3$ to Bell South.
The price sounds alittle high, for what we all know is in that box, but i probally couldnt make on of these things and make it look good in my stereo rack, wich BTW is important to me. :)
I have a problem in my house this thing would be great for.
Right now I run a fiber optic cable from my SB live card from my PC through the wall to me main stereo unit.
This works great but I have to get up and go in the other room to load new music, its a pain in the ass, It would be nice to be able to see the names of the directories well enough from the LCD display to load a album from the couch. I have thought about vga to ntsc converter and a wireless mouse for that room, but those things dont look that good on a TV and are like 150$
Can someone comment on how good the LCD looks for browseing directories? i have all my MP3's in a main direcory with a directory for each artist, in each artist directory i have a directory for every album etc...
Another good thing I see about this is, that I could play songs from the LCD display while my PC is doing other things I dont want to interupt such as a video game or something. this device is more than a WINAMP remote controle since it sounds like all processing is done by this device and only data is transfered over the ethernet. where right now with a fiber optic cable the main pc holding the files processes them and plays them and only the audio itself is sent to the stereo.
This thing sounds great I might have to get one
I really think even though they have done some things that might restrict people from having it easy to compete, I cant say I see Microsoft as being a Monopoly, I mean if they were the only OS you could buy then they would be. But if as people on slashdot are really proof to there being alot of people who use and perfer to use another OS besides Windows. Its about having the choice to choose. I my mother wanted to go buy Red Hat she could but she perfers not to. There is no crime in having products that people have herd of and are popular enough that people choose them over others, you might get upset cause you feel another OS is better and should be the most used but people decide this and marketing and just plain being around for awhile has gave MS a edge. But i dont see where you can say people cant go out right now and buy another OS. I am not all for microsoft but at the same time dont think its right to bash them such as people do here, if you dont like it dont use it.