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captainsblogOur fabulous good fortune with technology continues unabated.
During a routine re-warm of a cuppa cawfee this morning, I noticed that the bulb had gone out in the microwave. We've had the thing for probably close to a decade, and I couldn't remember ever having to replace it before. After church, we found out why. The bulb is not accessible from the inside of the unit, and is behind the outer casing behind an army of NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE WARNING WARNING MICROWAVE RADIATION BURN BURN DIE warnings.
So naturally, it's off.... and the part is not a garden-variety appliance bulb (which, saints preserve us, we actually had one of) but a proprietary one requiring a trip to the parts gurus at A.P. Wagner. Or I.P. Freely. One of those places. Which, of course, are all closed on Sundays.
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While Eleanor did the yeoman's service in getting that project that far along, I decided to bash my own head into the wall trying to bring to life our recently gifted multi-region DVD player online (thank you Thank You THANK YOU again, targaff:). Nothing wrong with it, mind; what was wrong, if anything, was my brain.
To test it out, I figured I would disconnect the old one and then just replace the cords on the back of the new one in the same places. Yet it flummoxed me, all the way round. I had an S-Video connector to take the signal to the TV, but there was no input jack to receive the signal from the cable box. In fact, it had no input jacks at all.
Me confoozled- until me finally realize: duh. It's not a DVD recorder/player; it just plays. So it has no need for input.
With that strange truth digested, I put all the tubey wubey things back into the old DVR (which still connects to the TV by S-Video), and connected the new player to the TV via a separate AV-1 connection. I also wrote out a cheat sheet for What Switch Goes Where To Do What that's about as long as the current Ithaca, New York print-edition yellow pages. By doing it this way, we can't run its audio output through the living room stereo, unless we turn the front of the home entertainment centre into a complete pile of spaghetti, but so what? Best of all, the original still-Region-2-encoded Sherlock disks played on it in perfectly elementary fashion. Those will be heading west in a few days, as a small token of thanks for a large expression of friendship:)
During a routine re-warm of a cuppa cawfee this morning, I noticed that the bulb had gone out in the microwave. We've had the thing for probably close to a decade, and I couldn't remember ever having to replace it before. After church, we found out why. The bulb is not accessible from the inside of the unit, and is behind the outer casing behind an army of NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE WARNING WARNING MICROWAVE RADIATION BURN BURN DIE warnings.
So naturally, it's off.... and the part is not a garden-variety appliance bulb (which, saints preserve us, we actually had one of) but a proprietary one requiring a trip to the parts gurus at A.P. Wagner. Or I.P. Freely. One of those places. Which, of course, are all closed on Sundays.
-----
While Eleanor did the yeoman's service in getting that project that far along, I decided to bash my own head into the wall trying to bring to life our recently gifted multi-region DVD player online (thank you Thank You THANK YOU again, targaff:). Nothing wrong with it, mind; what was wrong, if anything, was my brain.
To test it out, I figured I would disconnect the old one and then just replace the cords on the back of the new one in the same places. Yet it flummoxed me, all the way round. I had an S-Video connector to take the signal to the TV, but there was no input jack to receive the signal from the cable box. In fact, it had no input jacks at all.
Me confoozled- until me finally realize: duh. It's not a DVD recorder/player; it just plays. So it has no need for input.
With that strange truth digested, I put all the tubey wubey things back into the old DVR (which still connects to the TV by S-Video), and connected the new player to the TV via a separate AV-1 connection. I also wrote out a cheat sheet for What Switch Goes Where To Do What that's about as long as the current Ithaca, New York print-edition yellow pages. By doing it this way, we can't run its audio output through the living room stereo, unless we turn the front of the home entertainment centre into a complete pile of spaghetti, but so what? Best of all, the original still-Region-2-encoded Sherlock disks played on it in perfectly elementary fashion. Those will be heading west in a few days, as a small token of thanks for a large expression of friendship:)