Christmas Wish List:

[vansmack]

I'll start:
 
 You Can Take It With You, and Now You Can Play It, Too
 IVAN BERGER
 
 Copy video, audio and photo files to a portable hard drive by a USB connection, and you can easily carry them to your living room or your office. But playing those files when they reach their destination is another story.
 
 Enter the ScreenPlay. The ScreenPlay multimedia drive from Iomega ($220) has S-video, composite video and audio outputs to feed home theater systems and many TV sets, as well as a U.S.B. 2.0 connection. Available from stores and www.iomega.com, the ScreenPlay can be used with Windows or Macintosh computers.
 
 Once the ScreenPlay is connected, songs, videos, or photos can be selected from menus that appear on your TV screen, by using the drive's control keys or the remote control supplied with it. Photos can be shown individually or as slide shows.
 
 Pocket-size (5.2 by 3.07 by 0.7 inches), the seven-ounce drive can hold 60 gigabytes of data. According to Iomega, that is enough for 90 hours of DVD-quality video; 1,110 hours of music; or up to 240,000 photos, using common forms of data compression like MPEG, JPEG and MP3. That capacity can also be used to back up other kinds of computer files, with software provided, but that is yet another story. IVAN BERGER
 
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[walkonby]

i want all forms of modernism (computers, radios, video games, movies machines, ect...) taken away from the world for one year, just to see what would happen to us as a people.

[ggw]

We have a couple of those "giving" trees at the office.  They have tags on them with the gifts that less fortunate families want for Christmas.  Three kids are asking for iPods, one is asking for a CD player with headphones, and the mother wants a stereo system.
 
 Am I just a scrooge, or do these seem like somewhat inappropriate gifts for an indigent family?

[walkonby]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  We have a couple of those "giving" trees at the office.  They have tags on them with the gifts that less fortunate families want for Christmas.  Three kids are asking for iPods, one is asking for a CD player with headphones, and the mother wants a stereo system.
 
 Am I just a scrooge, or does these seem like somewhat inappropriate gifts for an indigent family?

a cd player?  isn't that like asking for a eight track, nowadays?

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Anyone playing secret Santa this year?  
 
 Put me down for one of these gems.

[markie]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
 
 
 Am I just a scrooge, or do these seem like somewhat inappropriate gifts for an indigent family?

What did you think they would ask for, Mr Scrooge? A turkey and a BB gun?

[vansmack]

Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
 What did you think they would ask for, Mr Scrooge? A turkey and a BB gun?

Give a man a turkey, he eats for a day.
 
 Teach him how to hunt, and he shoots other little kids in his neighborhood.
 
 Better off with the iPod.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

I want this:  http://olive.us/p_bin/
 
 I actually ordered one, then realized I was insane to spend that much money, and cancelled it before they could ship it.  But I still want one!

[markie]

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
  I want this:   http://olive.us/p_bin/
 
 I actually ordered one, then realized I was insane to spend that much money, and cancelled it before they could ship it.  But I still want one!

Why not just play music straight from your mac? I use airport express to stream from my laptop to my High Fidelity apparatus.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

That is actually exactly what I'm doing now, and that's a big reason I cancelled the order (besides the insane cost).   It works pretty well.  I have my whole music collection on my Mac and never need to take out a CD anymore.
 
 I like the idea of a stereo component dedicated to playing and storing digital music, especially in lossless, but with a Mac laptop and Airtunes it really does almost give you all you need.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
 Why not just play music straight from your mac? I use airport express to stream from my laptop to my High Fidelity apparatus.

What happened to your RCA cables stretched across the room?

[markie]

I still need a long cable as my phone jack is not near my Hi Fi. I could buy another airport express, or I could buy bike bits.....
 
 At least the laptop is unfettered now.

[ratioci nation]

or you could do it in the horribly ineffiecient way i do it
 
 have an old imac next to your stereo with all your music on a firewire drive hooked up to the imac, and control the imac remotely from a pc with osxvnc
 
 cheaper than an olive anyway  

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
 
 cheaper than an olive anyway      

Yes but in a Christmas wish list one hopes someone else is going to buy it for you, so why not aim high.    :cool: