Have you tried using dvd audio extractor? You can extract the audio to mp3
or play the audio tracks on the dvd's. That's what I use to play my Perry
Mason dvd collection.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: Digital to analog TV converter boxes
> Hi.
>
> The tag line is funny, since the Start Trek episodes on DVD are one of the
> things that I cannot access (except for the first episode on each disk)
> because of the stupid menu that they have set up.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
> At 09:40 PM 3/10/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hi Lou,
>>I share your frustration with the lack of accessibility to set top boxes
>>and
>>the like, but I am not letting this inaccessible world shut me out! I
>>have
>>used receivers and transmitters that didn't talk, cell phones that didn't
>>have voice synthesizers in them and I used to tune up my old DX 100 by
>>listening to the transformer hum and I used to set the drive by listening
>>to
>>the time it took for the meter needle to return to the 0 stop. But I'm
>>not
>>going to give up on any communication mode because of ignorance. That
>>also
>>includes digital ssb which I think sounds terrible, but I'm hoping that it
>>will get better with time.
>>I'm going to keep accessing the difficult because it is a challenge!
>>Bob, [log in to unmask], K8LR
>>Skype name: bobtinn
>>Live Long and Prosper!
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 8:20 PM
>>Subject: Re: Digital to analog TV converter boxes
>>
>>
>>Hi.
>>
>>With the fiasco that I've had with DVDs and accessibility, I've pretty
>>well
>>decided to cease to receive television signals when analog goes dark. I'm
>>sick of wasting money on things that the industry decides will be obsolete
>>long before it wears out, and I detest of filling landfills just so
>>someone
>>can make a heap of money.
>>
>>They can stick their DTV.
>>
>>73, de Lou K2LKK
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>At 11:37 PM 3/9/2008 -0500, you wrote:
>> >You have to use it within 90 days but the catch is they're only going to
>> >issue
>> >something like 30 million of them so if you wait too long you won't get
>> >one but
>> >if you buy now it may be nearly a year before you can use the box and it
>> >surely
>> >may have developed problems by then. Its never for electronics to sit.
>> >
>> >Last I heard they'd already issued about a third of the coupons they
>> >intend
>> >to
>> >give out.
>> >
>> >Tom
>> >
>> >
>> >Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>> >web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>> >
>> >On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Butch Bussen wrote:
>> >
>> > > Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:19:46 -0700
>> > > From: Butch Bussen <[log in to unmask]>
>> > > Reply-To: For blind ham radio operators
>> > > <[log in to unmask]>
>> > > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > > Subject: Re: Digital to analog TV converter boxes
>> > >
>> > > I think you have to use the coupon within 30 days, I do know there is
>> > > a
>> > > time limit, so don't apply until you're ready to buy.
>> > > 73s
>> > > Butch Bussen
>> > > wa0vjr
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, 7 Mar 2008,
>> > > Bob Tinney wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Hi,
>> > > > I've been putting off getting a converter box, but the discussion
>> > > > on
>> > > > this
>> > > > list reminded me to apply for 2 coupons as my audio tv receivers
>> > > > are
>> > analog
>> > > > and are not hooked to cable. Just google "digital converter box
>> > coupon" and
>> > > > fill out the form.
>> > > > 73
>> > > > Bob, [log in to unmask], K8LR
>> > > > Skype name: bobtinn
>> > > > Live Long and Prosper!
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> >7:27 PM
>>
>>Louis Kim Kline
>>A.R.S. K2LKK
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>>
>>
>>
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>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
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