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[ellarien]

Among the things we spotted in our post-prandial stroll around Fry's Electronics this evening: USB gadgets for transferring LPs, audio cassettes and even video cassettes to your computer; also a bulky and expensive box to convert LPs direct to CD, which strikes me as an idea whose time has probably gone by. Also, digital photo frames seem to be coming down in price, but who needs those when you have computers? There were also a lot of inexpensive off-brand MP3 players. Big-screen TVs look a lot more convincing than they did a few years back, I notice.

Meanwhile on Mount Wilson, after a calm, clear day, they're starting on that long-delayed controlled burn under the rising moon.

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[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I had thought of getting a digital photoframe for my dad so my brother and I could update it with family photos, but last tine I looked, they were still too pricey. Perhaps it might be time to look again?

[ellarien]

It might be, though I suspect British prices are a bit higher than what I saw last night. For that application, provided your dad doesn't have an objection to leaving stuff around plugged in, I can see it would be a nice idea. If it wasn't for the plugged-in aspect, I'd probably have given my mother one by now. Maybe when they start coming with long-lasting batteries ...