Triumphal trumpeting...

[fajrdrako]

I finished the story I was working on all week. About ten thousand words, needs a few more drafts, but I'm happy with it. Tomorrow I'll start on the story where yesterday was the deadline. I got an extension.

Two weeks ago I got a small raise at work - enough to make me feel wild and crazy, and it was close to my birthday, so I went out and bought at DVD recorder. A beautiful machine, and I bought it discounted, a display model without a box, and hooked it up when I got home. It worked beautifully, taped like a dream, gorgeous clear picture, large hard drive, plays DivX files, a great machine. Small and powerful.

But I couldn't program it. Couldn't access any of the programming features. Couldn't even set the clock. What's the point of a recorder if you can't set the timer? After I (and several of my tech-savvy friends) wasted hours trying to figure out what was wrong and what to do about it, it became only too clear that I had one model of machine and had been given the remote (and the manual) for another.

So today I went back to the store, and got the right remote. Tested it right there with my machine in the store, just to make sure it was all astheyand didn't even glance at my receipt, just took my useless old remote and let me take the new one. I scouted out a few of the new DVD recorders they'd put on the shelves in the past couple of weeks, and was all the more thrilled with mine: machines with half the features were selling for twice the price. It was worth the hassle over the remote to have this beauty.

And now? The whole system works like a dream.

Comments

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the club!

I got a TiVo a few years ago. Love it. DW watches more than I do, but we both watch what we want, when we want.

I got an upgrade to it (from a small independent). Story sort of like yours - there are two models, two types of remotes, and I had been sent the wrong version.

The upgrade people were fantastic - I wrote in about my problem on a Sunday and had an extensive email exchange that day; the right version was sent out the next day and is still chugging along. There are decent folk out there.

So - I hope you derive as much satisfaction, captured memories, and scheduling flexibility as we did.

[jkluge.livejournal.com]

I'm so pleased for you...and so envious! :-) Enjoy your lovely new toy (and its new functionality)!

[msilverstar]

Happy birthday! I'm awful at remembering, so let me just wish you a lovely year.

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

[grumpy old woman rant]it used to be that you could programm a VHS without a remote, but nowadays it is all so complicated that there seems no possibillity of that [/grumpy old woman rant]

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Recorders are good. I backed up most of my old tapes. There's rarely anything worth recording on TV these days, though.

[lilithlotr.livejournal.com]

yay! My next one will definitely have a hard drive rather than a VCR. and I love being able to play DivX files without conversion!

[filkferengi]

Congratulations! Now you can easily make fun prezzies for all your friends. [Thus speaketh the practical, hobbit side.]