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Mine was a SONY DiscMan, came with a cassette tape shaped adapter to play a CD thru a car cassette deck. I still have it, was doing a little 'spring cleaning' and found it buried in the closet. Put some new batteries in and it still works.

IF I upgrade my TV (buy a new one) from a 2K to 4K, will I need to replace all HDMI cables? Not sure if I will get a 60hz or 120hz refresh rate TV.

Well I've tried eBay and the experience is terrible, will NEVER use them again. Bought a movie for $21.00 back in October 2020, still have not received it and the seller in Greece says he shipped another one! Let the buyer beware certainly applies to eBay, what a scam they have going! And when I...

What a talent she was, on the big and small screens, in those Mel Brooks movies, Mary Tyler Moore, and others.

Is anyone old enough to remember those evil old energy wasting incandescent light bulbs? You know, the screw in kind? EASY to replace? EASY to find at the grocery store aisle? Then we went to those EASY to replace screw in tree-hugger long life squiggly looking bulbs, BUT they contain MERCURY...

Why so many commercials while watching a YouTube video? Very annoying.

"Sorry, we can't fix your car, you don't have the right insurance company" or "We're so sorry, we forgot to install a new filter when we changed the oil, can you make a new appointment" :confused:

https://variety.com/2020/film/actors/sean-connery-dies-oscar-winner-and-james-bond-star-dead-at-90-1234820498/

This got buried on 'page 4' of the news, the 'peaceful protests' and Wuhan virus are soooo much more interesting. :rolleyes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Spielberg

I performed a short listening experiment, connected my iPhone 6s Plus to the USB port on my Yamaha RX-A1020 and listened to Dinah Washington's "Easy Living" from my iTunes collection. Then fired up the Bluetooth adapter (Harmon Kardon HK BTA 10), same tune. Other than having to max out the...

Over the weekend did some 'closet cleaning' and found this old thing! Connected it up, still works, somehow the remote controller got lost.

The last major star of Gone With The Wind has died. Olivia was the older sister (by one year!) of Joan Fontaine who died in 2013 at age 96. The family had that 'longevity gene' .

If you are close to retirement age (65), are you getting a bunch of e-mail junk and regular post snail-mail about Medicare? Every few weeks now I get in USPS mail 'official' looking correspondence, only to find once I open the envelope it's from a non-disclosed 'party' with a PO Box somewhere in...

"The Devil Went Down To Georgia"

https://apnews.com/7a9e69a087baf9e69eff0ad345bf47e7 Wednesday’s death of Jean Kennedy Smith, an acclaimed former U.S. ambassador to Ireland and the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy, virtually erases those who were closest to the assassinated 35th U.S. president.

I tried to make a catchy title, I'm writing about smaller companies which are going out of business because of the pandemic. For example I recently had a small problem with a cell phone app called "Automatic", it includes a device which plugs into the maintenance port of the car, uses bluetooth...

Just saw a 'final days 60 percent off' sale at Secondspin.com, get those used CD's, DVD's, blu-ray's while you can! And they aren't buying anymore.

Recently my cable company swapped out a defective DVR for a new one. All was fine until I noticed when changing TV channels the audio was gone, only had video. To get audio for the channel I'd unplug - reconnect the HDMI cable connecting the DVR to the Yamaha RX-A1020, bingo! audio works. But...

Just saw headline that Kobe Bryant was killed in helicopter crash in Calabasas, CA, all on board died. Bryant was 41.