TV remote control -- two of them work -- then they don't

hd dvd player. if you have a dvd collection, you don't need it, but it plays dvd's as well, and probably costs the same.

 

And music CD's.

Using our latest BluRay (purchased last summer) less 'n less though. Mostly just streaming NetFlix.

FWIW, it was $269 (CDN):

Yamaha (BDS681 B)

 

same here. i got a ton of kids dvd's waiting for grandchildren. they are still in the wrapper and worthless.

 

You might want to buy a cheap TV while you still can.

US names Chinese products under proposed tariffs

 

I thought Australia had given up on limited Internet a couple of years ago? Are you on a very old contract?

You're not still on Telstra, are you? I'm trying to get my mother-in-law to leave them for TPG at the moment. I have never dealt with such an incompetent company with such utter contempt for its customers, in Australia, Hong Kong, Mainland China or Britain. They're abysmal. Her Internet has been out for four weeks. The quickest their tech support has answered one of our calls was FOUR HOURS. I've been reduced to going to a Telstra shop and shouting at people. At TPG, I always get through to a real person within two minutes. iiNet and Dodo are apparently OK, too, and even Optus isn't as bad as Telstra.

Anyway, to your question, it depends on the definition and the refresh rate. But typically an hour-long standard-definition (480p) programme will use about 350MB, and the same programme in HD (1080p) will use about 1GB.

Seriously, though. If you're on a limited package with Telstra, get out. Everyone else is cheaper and better and unlimited.

I wish I were old enough to not hear high-frequency sounds. It would mean I wouldn't be able to hear the dialogue when my daughter watches My Little Pony (or, on our 65" TV, My Medium-Sized Pony). Ooooh, it's awful.

(The text of the "Media" link for this is "youtube fuGLHHbmNFq". Oddly enough, "fuGLHHbmNFq" is what I think when this show is on.)

 

No, new OPTUS NBN Cable to replace OPTUS Cable. The old OPTUS was much better, faster and much more reliable, though the NBN is getting better.

I'm on their Seniors Plan - 100gb/mth - I only use about 1/3 to ½ every month.

When NBN was heading my way, all the companies tried to get me to sign up for contracts up to double the $$$, but they all included TV. I don't watch enough TV to warrant any more than Free-to-Air - I'm 4 months behind with programs I've recorded.

The trouble with being old enough to not hear high frequency - you still hear the pounding, utterly boring and annoying duh-duh of the bass from people who think they have a right to share that noise with other car drivers (and neighbours at times). Oh, and the incessant sound of AMGs, HSVs, WRXs etc who think that race-track noise is OK on the Motorway - it's painful for older ears.

Oh for a Merc S Class with double glazing.

 

PS
- I left TELSTRA 32 years ago because my phone kept breaking down when it rained. After ½ doz tries to get them to fix it, I moved to OPTUS.

And next time it rained, the phone stopped again. I contacted them, they came out - to the same pit on the footpath and put a drain in, said it was full of water and couldn't understand that TELSTRA hadn't spotted that first time. FIXED.

 

Well, I'm very pleased to hear you're not with Telstra. But you have my sympathies over NBN. We're not getting it until next year, and when we do, it's going to by hybrid-fibre coax, which is not very impressive at all. By the time it gets to us, wireless 5G should be an option instead, though.

I used to have a CL with double glazing. It was lovely and quiet. And very fast.

I quite like the sound of an AMG V8, I must confess. But not so much the HSVs and WRXs.

 

That doesn't surprise me.

When we moved here from China, Telstra told us there was no phone cable to our apartment, and that they'd have to charge us $600 to run one in there, and that it would take six weeks. So we called Optus. They told us that they'd have to charge us $150 and there'd be a delay of up to two weeks while THE EXISTING TELSTRA PHONE CABLE running into our place was released by Telstra and passed on to Optus.

 

I've got cable into the house, and the node is on the pole outside which the tech told me is an advantage. Not sure.

Our mobile reception isn't flash here - I'm only 3G, but they're updating the towers near here because more and more people are opting for it instead of NBN. When my 2 yr contract is up in 16 mths, I might be ditching it for wireless.

 

You're lucky Telstra relinquished the phone cable - my last house had Telstra cable, I got OPTUS to transfer my account to the new house, and they said they'd have to run new cabling to the house because they weren't allowed to use the Telstra cabling.

When they got to the job, they discovered there was already Optus cabling from when the house was rented out while the previous owners were overseas for a couple of years. Behind each wall outlet there was another cable which they swapped over. Crazy system.

 

China Telecom operates a virtual network here: its customers are mostly Chinese corporations operating in Australia.

I was chatting to the head of China Telecom Australia one day, and I said, "So, do you have a big sales team?"

"Yes," she said. "We've got the whole of Telstra. They're so s--t that within about six weeks of getting here, every Chinese company calls us, desperate for help."

 

I can't remember which Mobile Phone company said something similar last year - that the number of people moving their home phone/internet to them away from NBN might see the NBN embarrassed that it's only eventually supplying Govt and big business.

 

I got a 25" Samsung from Costco for $99 for my Wii.

Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.

 

Did you catch my comment about possible Infrared interference from another device ??

 

Well then I suggest that the IR detector in the set itself is failing intermittently.

Good luck.

 

It is working for me. Do you have access to the political forum here? That might be why you can't open it.

Your aren't missing much. It is an old thread that concerns US incentives, and I started it because a regular poster at the time kept interjecting their pet peeve over the Volt getting a higher tax credit than the Prius plug in into every discussion. Pointing to my signature was a quicker response to whenever they did so. they never posted in that thread.

Bad sound is a poor choice of words. The issue is in trying to watch TV when other noises are somewhat nearby, like people talking in the next room. Since the sound output of the TV isn't directed at the viewers, they need to up the volume to hear the TV over those neighboring sounds. People to side not watching the TV, are closer to the sounds output direction, and thus complain about the TV being too loud.

TVs should just have the speakers facing the same direction as the screen, or not have them at all.

 

Remember the speaker on a cord (with a Remote Control?). Only saw one once - but it meant that someone hard of hearing (OK ½ deaf) could hear over the family's chatter.

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