Recent content by tommy-b

Actually, music was the least of what sold me on Sirius in 2005. I have my favorite music collected on CDs and my mp3 player and prefer to listen to those than someone else's opinion of what songs should play in a favorite genre. On the otherhand, we have nothing but conservative talk on...

The dish has actually been through 3 hurricanes. Before things get too rough I point the dish all the way west so that the rim of the dish "slices" the wind from the south rather than bracing into it. Katrina was the only flooding in history in my area. The dish only went about half under...

I will be calling mine a dish mover :)

I had a 10 foot backup dish given to me as well as several receivers, but I lost them all in Katrina. Would love to find another 10 footer to have as a spare. Funny thing about my dish after Katrina... The underground cable was blown by either a surge or lightning strike and the actuater...

Up until recently I only listened to AM talk in my car and had not switched over to FM for years, except to use an FM transmitter hooked up to my mp3 player. The 2 AM stations I listened to changed formats (one to local, WWL and the other to ESPN Radio, WWWL both out of New Orleans.). Since...

That's the route I would take. A high quality AVI rip is roughly 1/4 the size of an average DVD, mpeg even smaller. Even though these days hard drives are bigger, no need to fill them up sooner :) I use DVD Fab for my DVD backups. It and ConvertXtoDVD are 2 of the best software purchases I...