Let’s talk electronics.

[MichelleHW101]

I don’t understand why when you set up a home install from the Best Buy the people doing the scheduling tell you one thing and the installers tell you another.  I was told that because it was a tv/home theater system the geek squad guys would not leave until everything was up and running.  Well I wanted all the sound to come from the home theater system.  I was told that all I need was an optical digital cable (which I bought).  Then when the installers came they looked at the tv and said it doesn’t even have that optical/digital outlet.  So to get what I wanted (the sound out of the home theater speakers) I needed a ‘y’ cable.  He didn’t have any in his truck which meant I had to go to best buy and buy one.  That also meant they hooked eveything up but didn’t test to see if anything actually worked (Which in the store they told me the guys don’t leave until everything does work.) He told me where to plug in the y cable once I got it then left and symple said, “call if there are any problems.”  Well I go to best buy get the y cable and plug it in the holes he told me.  I got no sound except when I turned on the home theater player.  None from the cable box or the vcr.  It’s a mini stereo headphone jack so I plug in my headphnes from my phone.  I still get no sound.  I look at the set up intstorunst and the hole the geek squad guy wanted me to plug into was not the headphone jack.  I plug it into the actuall headphone jack and still no sound.  I call the Geek Squad guy and tell him I still ain’t getting sound and the he he wanted me to plug into was not the headphone jack.  He then asked me what that hole was.  I told him, “How was I supposed to know?” He said he’d come back after his next install.  I get off the phone with him and realize the geek squad guy manually turned off the sound to the tv.  I go crazy because the tv did not have instructions so I had to push buttons until I got the sound back on.  Then I got sound when I had the cable or vcr turned on.  What actually saved the whole sound set up was the tv did come with a headphone jack.  Which I was just going to buy a set of Bose computer speakers and hook it up to the tv though the headphone jack anyway.  I got suckered into buying a whole theater system and the only surround sound I get is when I use the blu-ray player the speakers came with.  Otherwise cable and my vcr are straight right and left speaker anyway because the tv didn’t have that outlet needed to conect to the player’s speakers.  If it didn’t have the headphone jack I was stuck with just sound from the tv and for that I didn’t have to waste money on a surround sound system.  I could have got just a regular wifi blu-ray player.         

[MichelleHW101]

So I got a cordless craftsmen circular saw and because I’m the person that always reads the instructions before I use something, that’s what I did.  Now to adjust the blade depth it was just giving me this whole complicated step by step thing.  There was a picture but it wasn’t any clearer than the words.  So I loosen the depth *bleep* like it said and found the ruler in the back but I couldn’t figure out anything beyond that.  By mistake I grab the base and yank down.  That’s when I see the slider to the base going up and down along the back ruler.  If all you had to do was loosen the base, then move it so that the piece of the blade protruding out is either shorter (if you pull the base down) or longer (if you raise the base up) all in adjustment with the ruler in the back of the saw then retighten the depth *bleep*—why didn’t they just say that?  I just measureed the depth of the wood I was going to cut with it then looked at the dept ruler at the back of the saw and lowered the base until I was close enough to the ¼ inch beyond the wood depth for no kickback.  It was so simple I got more frustrated trying to figure out what the instructions were trying to say than actually adjusting the saw.  Maybe that’s why most people don’t read instructions anymore.   

[MichelleHW101]

reading the operating instructions to the craftsman’s cordless circular saw I have to say it’s pretty sad when have to list common sense things like hold the saw with both hands, never put the saw on the ‘cut off’ piece etc. 

[MichelleHW101]

I got a hdtv but as soon as I plugged in my brand new Toshiba dual vhs/dvd and stuck in a tape it was just awful!  I mean it was like looking at a water color or like someone threw water on the screen.  The picture was completely fuzzy.  The installer gave me some crap about how the vhs tapes only run 480i the HD TV has like 1080i so your gonna see every flaw and connecting by a coxial cable is the lowest video signal etc. I told him to put back my old dual vhs/dvd player.  You know what?  The picture (though will never be as good as an old standard tv) was only slightly fuzzy and definitely passable enough to watch.

[MichelleHW101]

Was going to change my new dual vhs/dvd player out for an HD upconverter model but after reviews online that an upconverter doesn’t really make the vhs tape look better on my HD TV I figured I’d save money and just get the HD upcoverter when my player actually goes.

[MichelleHW101]

I hate best buy.  Ever since they remolded there is absolutely nothing in that store.  I finally broke down and decided to get an ipod.  I’ll need a new stereo system anyway and the tape deck has been replaced with an ipod because no one uses tapes anymore.  So I went into best buy and of course there was no one there to ask in the actual Ipod MP3 section so I went to customer service.  There was no sales representative available but there was a geek squad guy.  He asked if I needed help and I said I had a question about the Ipods.  He replied, “Okay.”  I said, “Everything is going to Ipods and the self stereo systems alls say Ipod but I don’t know which one that is.  Are they all the same?”  We walked over to the shelf stereo systems and he started opening them.  He told me they are for the classic but the 4th generation Ipod Touch is the same exact size so they can interchange with whatever machine takes the classic.”  I said, “Then I’ll get the 4th generation.”  He said, “Well, the 4th generation is really on its way out and if you just wait a few months the new stuff will come out made for the 5th generation.”  That when I told him, “Ok then I’ll get the 5th generation and just wait for a stereo.  See, I have a Zune MP3player which I really love.  The problem is nothing is built for it.”  He asked if my stereo had an auxiliary jack.  I said it did.  He replied, “You can run an audio cable between them.”  I replied, “I already do, but an Ipod you just plug into the machine.”  That’s when he understood why I wanted to buy the Ipod and went in the back to look for it.  I waited about five, six minutes.  He then came out, passed me saying, “I’m still looking.”  I told him okay.  He disappeared again then he comes back out another five or six minutes later with a sales associate and said, “I got good news and bad.  Which one do you want first?”  I said, “The bad.”  He said, “The 64 GB we don’t have in any color except the black.”  I shook my head and said, “No.”  He then said, “The 32GB you can get in any color you want.”  I asked, “Well can you order the 64 from your warehouse?”  He said he’ll have to check so I followed him back to customer service.  He went online to the best buy website (which I could have done myself from home) and started to order me the 64GB in the color I wanted.  I took pink because I didn’t care for the silver and the blue was iffy.  I asked him while he started to order, “Do you not have the 64GB because the 5th generation is brand new?”  He actually stopped typing up the order and turned towards me and said, “No, about 50% of the people that come in are happy with the 32GB.  Only 10% really buy the 64GB.  Most of them that want that just buy the Iphone.”  I replied, “Most people aren’t replacing a 160GB MP3 player with it.”  That’s when he finally stopped pushing the 32GB and was happy to order me the 64GB.  I mean really?  Why do they push people to buy things they don’t really want?  And they clearly hate it when you go into a place knowing exactly what you want and they can’t sway you to change your mind.  I tell you, it really makes me sick.  It should just be, “we don’t have it, let me try to order it.”  NOT “We don’t have it, buy something we do.”  It’s like the old Christams movie Miricle on 34th Street.  Except in this case it’s B.S. at Best Buy. 

[MichelleHW101]

So pissed at the Wolfenstein new order game.  I used to play the Spear of Destiny, borrowed it from my brother.  I thought the whole kill the nazis was cool.  What the crap is this that now he’s fighting robots?  What does the company think he is Duke Nukem?

[MichelleHW101]

Really don’t like the Apple’s software for the Ipod verse Microsoft’s software for the Zune.  I have a Zune Player.  I bought one just as the Ipod craze was kicking in.  My younger brother opted for the Ipod.  Since I need a new stero and the tape deck was replaced by an Ipod dock I decided to finally break down and get one.  I went with the latest model (the 5th generation Touch) rather than the classic (which I never liked) or the 4th generation touch which can go into an Ipod dock designed for the classic.  My problem with the software is that you cannot manipulate the albums the way you can in the Zune software.  Both load an album by Artist, which generally wouldn’t be a problem, but about 90% of my albums are by various artists.  So I wind up with twenty song files of the same album, each with one song rather than one album with twenty songs by twenty different artists.  In Zune when I get twenty different files I can just grab the album I want and merge it with another.  I’ll get the option yes or no if I want to merge.  That way I can just create the album I want rather than like with the Apple where I’m stuck with twenty different song files because each song is by a different artist.

[MichelleHW101]

I needed a camcorder for years now but it never failed that when I had enough money to buy one something else always came up. So one computer, two laptops, one MP3 player, one IPod, two cameras, one phone, three printers and two speaker systems bringing the total to about seven years later (today) I bought one. It's a Sony HDR-CX 220. I went to best buy this morning & sales rep said I lucked out because five were bought yesterday so only two were left in the store. I get it home & immediately went to turn it on & got nothing. Already having that experience with my IPod I knew I had to charge the battery. That's when I trouble began. It only comes with a USB cable with the manual saying some computers not being able to charge it. I grab my rocketfish USB universal wall charger and start charging the camcorder battery. The charging light comes on like its supposed to but the wall charger after a half an hour is hot. Having burnt out my old mp3 wall charger from my IPod I knew that was bad and unplugged it. I then plugged the camcorder into the computer. Both started reading each other but the charging light continued to blink. I look in the manual & it says a full charge is two hours. So I left the camcorder in the computer for two hours but I was suspicious because the charge light was blinking the whole time. When I unplugged the camcorder I was able to turn it on and found out I was right because the dying battery symbol was on the screen which meant it was only charged when plugged into the wall. I looked on line and Sony says to plug it into the computer others said they charged it with their smartphone wall charger. I grabbed my extra one and plugged in the camcorder but like with my first wall charger it burned up. I ran to best buy. First sales person claimed he never heard of a camcorder not coming with a wall adapter and went to find me a powerful wall charger. While he was gone another sales person came to me and asked if I needed help. Normally I say that someone already was but instead I asked if she was familiar with the camcorder (I was standing in front of it & pointed to it) she told me she was. I explained the battery was only charging when plugged into the wall but every charger I use gets hot & she told me that particular model & the one next to it don't come with wall chargers but I could buy a battery charger. It plugs into the wall & the battery slides into it. So I bought it but then when I brought it home I found that the battery charger does not charge the NP-FV30 which is the camcorder battery. I ended up replugging the camcorder into the computer but this time I took out the memory card. Battery charged just fine. I’m going to keep the battery charger and & buy the recommended replacement NP-FV50 battery which it will charge.

[MichelleHW101]

Yesterday I bought the QuietSet 8 speed oscillating tower fan by Honeywell. Went out this morning to cut front yard and tear out weeds. Only out there and hour but came in soaked in sweat and burning up. I collapsed in front of the fan after turning it up to only the sixth setting and within two minutes I was cool. So worth the seventy dollars I paid for it.

[sdecaro558]

Just got a Samsung Galaxy S4 recently and I'm loving it so far.

[MichelleHW101]

I’m pissed at sims.  They released Dragon Valley which is an expansion pack but the problem is they didn’t attach it to the medieval sims which is what they should have done because that’s where it belongs they attached it to sims3.  Then to make you spend even more money the only way you get certain bonuses is if you have other sim3 expansion packs with it like you only get the weather stone if you have sims3 expansion seasons and supernatural.  I have medieval and I would like dragon valley but I really don’t want to waste all that money on three other sim games just to get the fourth.  Again why did they attach that to sims3?  It’s medieval and should have been an expansion to Sims Medieval.   

[mrisha]

I have a Lexmark Pro715 multi purpose and I love it.  It works really well.  The colors are bright and sharp.

[MichelleHW101]

Why can’t game companies like Electronic Arts or any software company for that matter make stuff like they used to?  You put in the disc, it loads completely then boom your done.  I bought sims 3 and I haven’t even played it.  I spent two whole days I can’t get back just downloading updates.  What did people forget how to make programs?

[Liquidfire_43]

For a new all in one printer, I am think of getting a Canon brand printer due to reviews online... I heard Epson ink cart. are quick to run out