>
>>VCR, Tvs, etc.) is actually some great stuff for the price.
>
>OK at best.. For reasonable priced TVs and VCRs, I've found Panasonic
>to be one of the best values around. Hitachi also has some nice stuff.
>I'd almost be willing to recommend Mitsubishi if they could manage to
>build reliable logic circuits and remote control receivers.
>
I have to agree on the value of the Panasonic VCRs. We've been
using the Panasonic PV-4664 (which is similar to the current PV-9664)
for a couple years now. We're very happy with it. It has consistently
better recording quality at SP and SLP than our other VCRs. It also
has some cool features like commercial advance (fast forwards over
commercials) which really makes TV shows flow more smoothly. If you
watch Babylon 5 (and you should), watching without commercials is the
only way to go... ;-)
The price is decent. I think it lists for $249 and you should
be able to find it for less (www.camcorder.net has it listed for
$199). When I get another VCR it will be a Panasonic.
>
>--- Korg Ecksthrey <korgx3@safelink.net> wrote:
>> Maybe someday I'll be able to make this puppy public access (cable modems
>> might be coming here this year!), but until then,
>
>I'm getting a cable modem in a few weeks. My brother
>already has one. He lives in Austin and they're one
>of the first cities around that has gotten them. If
>Austin has them (and again, I know for a fact that
>they do) I would imagine that LA has 'em too. Anyway,
>cable modems are right around the corner, but I'm not
>entirely convinced that they're all that they've been
>cracked up to be.
>
Well, I don't know what you expect, but my cable modem is all
I expected it to be. For $40/month I can avoid paying $20/mo for an
extra phone line and another $20/mo for an ISP so my cost breaks
even. Plus, it is FAST. I downloaded a 70 meg file in 12 minutes the
other day just for fun. ;) Having the 24 hour instant high-bandwidth
access makes the internet much more useful. My wife and I now use it
all the time for stuff like checking local movie times and so on.
Steve
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