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It never ceases to amaze me...
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
... In article , Col wrote: I've just bought a DVD player and it had a type of plug Id never seen before. There was what looked like a normal plug but with nothing attached, and something that resembled one of those two-pin shaver plugs. Upon attempting to plug one into the other, it just fell out. WTF?? After a little fumbling the bag of the plug flipped open and it was instantly obvious where the 'shaver' bit clipped in. But if you've never seen one before..... It should have been supplied assembled and sealed by a tamper proof screw etc to conform to the requirement of having a 13 amp plug fitted for UK sale. Perhaps, but increasingly they are not. We bought some sets of decorative lights for kids bedrooms on-line recently, and they were all supplied with an adaptor to accept the euro-plug and plug into a UK 13-amp socket which we had to fit ourselves. Perhaps an area where trading standards need to pay some attention. -- Ron |
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Ed said the following on 25/01/2008 15:07:
On Jan 25, 2:52 pm, "^^artnada^^" wrote: Ed wrote: ...how ostensibly clever and successful people can be thick as **** when it comes to connecting TVs and DVD players together. I just had a conversation in the kitchen here at work with a very senior chap, who said he'd only just worked out how to record freeview onto DVD. I was curious to ask what he meant, and he said he had to leave the TV on all night!!!!! A brief chat discovered he had the freeview box and dvd player connected separately to the TV (or something like that) so the DVD only got a signal when the TV was on! I briefly explained how best to connect the three devices, and resisted asking if he'd opened the manual. Just because the "senior chap" doesn't know what *you* know doesn't make him "thick as ****". I know fcuk all about football, does that make me "thick as ****" too? Not everyone is a fountain of knowledge such as yourself! It would be immediately obvious to you, even though you know nothing about football, that if all the players were wearing the same colour shirt, something was wrong. Similarly in TV world, the point of a DVD recorder is to be able to record things. A quick glance at the manual will tell you how best to connect the machine so this is possible, and that having to leave the TV on is not required. Spot the error! :-) [Ranting Simpsons TV anchor guy] "It's the word after DVD, people!" ...how ostensibly clever and successful people can be thick as **** when it comes to connecting TVs and DVD players together. |
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Ed wrote:
....how ostensibly clever and successful people can be thick as **** when it comes to connecting TVs and DVD players together. I just had a conversation in the kitchen here at work with a very senior chap, who said he'd only just worked out how to record freeview onto DVD. I was curious to ask what he meant, and he said he had to leave the TV on all night!!!!! A brief chat discovered he had the freeview box and dvd player connected separately to the TV (or something like that) so the DVD only got a signal when the TV was on! I briefly explained how best to connect the three devices, and resisted asking if he'd opened the manual. He's probably thinking intuitively, taking the traditional (audio) hi-fi connections as his model. With hi-fi, the amp has to be on and switched to the source (or to "tape monitor") to make a recording from vinyl, CD or tuner - and nothing else can be done whilst the recording is being made. OK, even that could be "improved", but it rarely was. |
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Ed wrote: A brief chat discovered he had the freeview box and dvd player connected separately to the TV (or something like that) so the DVD only got a signal when the TV was on! Some TVs have a 'record buss' allowing you to select source to destination. Like perhaps to dub from VCR to DVD while watching something else on the TV. Very useful feature. Which *would* mean leaving on the TV while this operation was in progress. My Sony set has about four SCART inputs and a Freeview tuner, all selectable separately. On my set-up, you can certainly watch something (including a recording) whilst dubbing from either PVR or Sky+ to the DVD-R/HDD recorder. But I can understand that the set-up would confuse some. |
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Ron Lowe wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message ... In article , Col wrote: I've just bought a DVD player and it had a type of plug Id never seen before. There was what looked like a normal plug but with nothing attached, and something that resembled one of those two-pin shaver plugs. Upon attempting to plug one into the other, it just fell out. WTF?? After a little fumbling the bag of the plug flipped open and it was instantly obvious where the 'shaver' bit clipped in. But if you've never seen one before..... It should have been supplied assembled and sealed by a tamper proof screw etc to conform to the requirement of having a 13 amp plug fitted for UK sale. Perhaps, but increasingly they are not. We bought some sets of decorative lights for kids bedrooms on-line recently, and they were all supplied with an adaptor to accept the euro-plug and plug into a UK 13-amp socket which we had to fit ourselves. Perhaps an area where trading standards need to pay some attention. That's becoming quite common with mobile phone chargers and PC peripherals. |
It never ceases to amaze me...
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:44:43 -0800 (PST), Ed
wrote: ...how ostensibly clever and successful people can be thick as **** when it comes to connecting TVs and DVD players together. I just had a conversation in the kitchen here at work with a very senior chap, who said he'd only just worked out how to record freeview onto DVD. I was curious to ask what he meant, and he said he had to leave the TV on all night!!!!! A brief chat discovered he had the freeview box and dvd player connected separately to the TV (or something like that) so the DVD only got a signal when the TV was on! I briefly explained how best to connect the three devices, and resisted asking if he'd opened the manual. My parents used to have a TV set with the Freeview tuner built into it, and they always claimed that they had to have the TV on in order to record anything. I'm not sure if that really was the case, or if they just didn't know how to set it up any other way, but they seemed happy with the setup so I left them to it. |
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
It should have been supplied assembled and sealed by a tamper proof screw etc to conform to the requirement of having a 13 amp plug fitted for UK sale. I see that the Europlug-to-UK-plug converters that are illustrated in the following page just snap shut. And yet the accompanying text says: "The product is approved to BS5733, BS1363 plug/socket features and BS1362 fuse link." There's no fuse sockets visible inside, so I guess that the fuse plugs in via the front. http://www.powerconnections.co.uk/convert_eurotouk.htm -- Dave Farrance |
It never ceases to amaze me...
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:44:43 -0800 (PST), Ed wrote:
...how ostensibly clever and successful people can be thick as **** when it comes to connecting TVs and DVD players together. I just had a conversation in the kitchen here at work with a very senior chap, who said he'd only just worked out how to record freeview onto DVD. I was curious to ask what he meant, and he said he had to leave the TV on all night!!!!! A brief chat discovered he had the freeview box and dvd player connected separately to the TV (or something like that) so the DVD only got a signal when the TV was on! I briefly explained how best to connect the three devices, and resisted asking if he'd opened the manual. This is the classic mistake of not differentiating knowledge from intelligence. If you could time travel Albert Einsetein forwards from the 1950's he wouldn't have a clue about how to connect DVD players, even though he's a lot more intelligent than you. Likewise some people who know a lot of facts can be relatively low intelligence: they just regurgitate facts when they recognise a situation, but with very little "intelligent" analysis. -- .................................................. ......................... .. never trust a man who, when left alone ...... Pete Lynch . .. in a room with a tea cosy ...... Marlow, England . .. doesn't try it on (Billy Connolly) ..................................... |
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On Jan 26, 9:24 am, "Brian Gaff" wrote:
To be fair, some manuals seem to be written using the centre of the universe approach, in that they never acknowledge the slight but important differences one might encounter if all the system was not made by the manufacturer of the item in question....:-) Brian Who needs manuals. A fun place to start is the Which TV connection guide. Just go to www.which.co.uk and navigate to Audiovisual/Television/ Setting up your TV/TV connection wizard Click on Launch the Which TV connection wizard and have fun. http://www.which.co.uk/reports_and_c...57_79271_2.jsp Cheers, vanyablue. |
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