WalkerPad

So Amazon had a deal going, pick a HD-DVD player and get 12 movies with it. I picked us up the Toshiba A30 HD-DVD player. It was a bit of compromise, I wanted the slightly more expensive unit that supported 7.1 audio but figured this would be good enough.

I like the quality of of the output from the A30 but not the hardware it’s self. The audio and picture quality are quite good, so is the DVD upscaling (only tried out the 1080P over HDMI and 5.1 surround).

The hardware has a few seriously irritating flaws (I have the most current firmware).

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Some pictures from the Kaily’s last Gymnastics class of 2007. I liked her teacher for this last one (seemed to have a good sense of humor with the kids).

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We have had a iRobot Roomba discovery for a few years now. It has has worked reasonable well, although ours is currently broken. Either the battery won’t hold a charge or something more serious is wrong. Just dies after a few seconds, and the process in the faq for fixing the battery doesn’t work for me.
The discovery is a bit like a lazy husband (takes one to know one), and unless you poke and prod it it dose at best a average vacuum job… but that is just barely good enough for how we used it, and some times have it is a great connivence.
Anyway, I liked the discovery enough despite it’s foibles that when Woot! had a sale on the Scooba for $99 I couldn’t resist. I should have.

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