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As I understand it, USB is storage only, so recording and playback from e.g. a pen drive or hard drive. I think you’ll have to connect through the HDMI sockets. You can get a scart to red, white, and yellow cable ( I’ve gone blank on the name of the connection), but you’ll probably get a lower quality picture.

I haven’t used a soundbar, so I’m…[Read more]

Heart 80’s has been very good on the few times I’ve been able listen (DAB in Ellen’s car and Alice’s TV, so I get outvoted 😀 ). Ignore the tuning info on the website, as they list the instructions for the bog standard Heart FM station only. It’s one of the few stations where I’ve been able to leave it on for a few hours without getting bored…[Read more]

The one bid is from a bidder who has only made seven bids, on seven items, so one each. Five of them are on coins.

https://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidderProfile&mode=1&item=132660613632&bidtid=1480240786003&_trksid=p2471758.m4792

I find as a passenger that it’s the complete opposite. Ellen’s new car is the first one we’ve had with it, and it drives me up the wall. If someone short has been in the front, I can’t get in the car. There is a way of pushing the seat back with the handle rather than the bar underneath, but it rarely works. We went to her mother’s for a few…[Read more]

I don’t understand why, when all new builds seem to come with solar panels, they don’t also have battery banks built in, and home electronics don’t run from 12V etc.

Surely it would be safer, and bulk buy discounts from the big home builders would make it affordable?

I’m not 100% sure, but I think that’s what CEC is for. It should be in the settings somewhere, and lets the TV switch source automatically. It may be listed as HDMI CEC.

Fair enough. The offer stands though, just let me know 👍

My mother’s house is near the top of a steep hill, and roughly 200M above sea level. She’s been flooded three or four times.

There’s an old stream that runs underground somewhere nearby, and when the local housing association refurbished the house next door, they caused some sort of problem along with putting in a completely waterproof seal…[Read more]

@bdthree If you want, send me a copy of the file, and I’ll convert it with Media Monkey and send it back. It might not be until tomorrow night though, I’m out all day tomorrow.

It looks like there’s no DRM if you download the books through Linux:

https://the-digital-reader.com/2017/05/15/drm-loophole-found-audible-audiobooks/

If that’s right, you can convert them with any converter. I use Media Monkey myself, as it’s a great organiser too

http://www.mediamonkey.com/

Thanks Dave 🙂

I’ve got Pro on my main computer, so I’ll give it a try this week.

I’ve got a CSR 4.0 dongle for my PC and it works great. You just pair the two devices, and they do the rest. I got the dongle after my thread here:

https://forumite.co.uk/forums/topic/bluetooth-audio-from-pc/

and this is the dongle I…[Read more]

Thanks Steve! 😀

I just refreshed the Latest Replies page, and Boris’ post is still showing as unread from over six hours ago. I don’t know if Steve’s test post affected it or not?

Same here. One at the moment.

EDIT: I’m getting some other random problems too, so they may be related. For a few days I’ve been getting the extended history in Chrome again. If I open the forum and click a link, then hold the back button to see the history, I get a lot of instances of the first page. It’s usually the Latest Replies page in my…[Read more]

I bought this one for Ellen last Christmas. It was £35 then, and definitely worth it. She put it on in the kitchen yesterday, and it drowned out the TV in the living room 😀

https://www.7dayshop.com/products/psyc-monic-premium-20w-stereo-wireless-bluetooth-4-0-speaker-multi-award-winning-spk-bt-psyc-monic-p

Thanks Dave 🙂

The Samsung site listed on the drive has now been redirected to Seagate, and they have no record of my drive…

Ellen freezes a plastic takeaway container full of treats and snacks, topped off with water. We separate the dogs and give them one each. In their rush to get to the snacks, they usually eat the ice too. Thanks to the size and shape of the containers, we can usually keep a couple in the freezer too.

Have you got a link for Samsung’s diagnostics please Dave?

Daft question, but have you tried it outside to rule out interference in the house?

Tommy Robinson, AKA Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, AKA about half a dozen other names, is a far right troublemaker, and has got himself arrested for, as I understand it, interfering in a court case. He was on a suspended sentence from last year, and turned up to a trial of an Asian grooming gang where the men are either Muslim, or have Muslim sounding…[Read more]