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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Summer is in full swing here in SoCal.

At my place the high for the day was 86F, which is nicely cool compared to the previous AND upcoming hot spells. In the house is roughly 84F. The previous hot spell, the highs never got below 95F, and lows never got below 75F, with ~66% humidity. Then we got a nice 4 day break, today being the last day, with highs ~85F. The predicted high tomorrow is 93F, the 5 days after that are 95F and up, then 2 days at 94F, and then 92F.

Below 90F is OK, 90ish is bearable even though I slow down a lot, but over 95F completely halts me. From 85F to 90F goes from livable to manageable, from 90F to 95F goes from manageable to merely endurable. What a difference those measly 5F steps make!

In tune with the weather, my progress has been slower than I'd like, but I'm still getting things done day by day. My pattern is to start something, run into a problem that's been dogging me for years that I didn't have the time (and energy) to get to - derail myself and finally FIX the darn thing! - and then continue on where I left off. Aside from the weather, that's another thing that keeping me from making huge amounts of progress in a short amount of time.

But I'm also hiring people to get things done, like kill the darn gopher and install a screen/ security door in the side door. So that's a boost of progress, too.

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I told her she could be working on that paperwork for 2 whole weeks straight and even though she's making great progress and it is important, my stepdad's just going to say that she's not doing anything because meanwhile boxes are everywhere and nothing looks like it got done.

I think she got the point. Guess I'll find out later if he came back home and was complaining or not. I do get where both sides are coming from.

He told her that he was always stressed out back at home because everything was always a mess. He's done with that. Like me now, he wants nothing but the basics and he wants the house clean and doesn't want piles of paperwork and mail all over the place anymore. But she doesn't want to just throw everything out right away in case there's important stuff in there.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I wish DVDs used close captioning.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I wish DVDs used close captioning.

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Some do.

Did you try it through your TV settings?

You control the Subtitles through the DVD menus. You control the Closed Captioning through your TV set.


BluRay does not support closed captioning at all though.



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Oh... BTW. How is your DVD player connected to your TV set? If you are using an HDMI cable for the connection, the TV won't display any Closed Captioning that is on the Disc. You have to use the old Component/Composite cable for CC to work.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Well if you're using the DVD through some "HD Box" and that box is connected to the TV through an HDMI cable, it's still going to get lost in the mix. HDMI cables were not made with the capability for transmitting that info no matter what the source is from.

Not all DVDs use the technology and some just have subtitles. The Closed Captioning is stored as a separate data stream that can be used by any TV that's set up to display it (most TVs, at least in the US, had to do it some time in the 80's and beyond). Subtitles aren't data. They're transparent images that are laid on top of the movie.

I saw a youtube video on how all of that worked. It was pretty fascinating.

Pretty lame that the US government didn't force BluRay and HDMI cable manufacturers to use the tech. I don't know how that happened. Without the US forcing that standard going forward, it's unlikely anybody else is going to either.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No problem.

I really can't figure out why they didn't enforce the closed captioning on the new technology though. Subtitles are nice, but they aren't the end-all-be-all solution and they could never replace closed captioning.

As long as people are watching things like the news and sports on HD streams that are transmitted to their TV via antenna, they will be able to use closed captioning. But if they're getting any HD media through any device that connects to the TV with an HDMI cable this info won't be present, even if the original media had it.

Not a problem with movies and TV show collections that have subtitles (although you do sometimes lose some non-dialogue info that CC usually displays, depending on who made the subs). But any live broadcasts rely on somebody who can type lightning fast to put the words on the screen as they're spoken. Well... maybe that's all automated now too, but people used to do that. But the fact is that the hearing impared are being left behind with the new technology.

I think at some point it will be revisited in the US legal system and manufacturers will be forced to do this once again. I don't see how that doesn't happen in the future. But of course, if you want to use it at that point it will require you to upgrade your tech once again. Not something that everybody will be forced to do since most people can go without CC, especially since there are subtitles on most BluRays if they really want them.

But people like you that want it are going to probably have to buy a new and pricier HDMI cable for any device hooked to your TV(s) and you might even have to buy a new BluRay player. Although with how "smart" devices are today, you might just need to buy the cable. It's probable that the devices themselves can pretty easily be upgraded through software to use CC as long as they're connectable to the internet. If that happens, it would be likely that any of the major players with a US presence like Sony and Magnavox would upgrade all of their previous devices when forced to by law. However, anybody who's rocking some Made in China shit-boxes that they bought on Wish.com are probably going to be out of luck.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I think that is probably how it went in the 80's and 90's. I doubt very much that Canada had any pull with how TV sets were made. It's possible that Canada followed suit and passed the same laws at a later date, but that was really just to ensure compliance with Canadian (French and English) broadcasters. The TVs themselves were already compliant because of the US laws that had already passed requiring that the TV sets for NTSC supported closed captioning.

That being said, it looks as though Canada isn't dropping the issue. If you're going to see CC make it into the new technology, Canada might be at the forefront of making that happen in the 2020's.

https://www.3playmedia.com/2017/08/29/canadian-crtc-caption-laws/

https://dcmp.org/learn/static-assets/nadh20.pdf

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Mouth breather, you say?

You're in good company here.

Get some rest. What are you still doing up???



1:00AM here and it's 68 degrees on the second floor; 61 degrees outside. 5 degree drop since I turned it on at 8:30.

I'm still going to have that on for another 7 or so hours before it gets turned off. Might make it below my projected 66 if I'm lucky. Got about 4 hours where it's actually supposed to go as low as 60, so I might get the house to 64 before the windows get shut. :)


I'm looking forward to seeing how this system works when we have more typical weather for the season that's starting up again in the next few days.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
"I'd risk burning it out and giving it a shot if I wasn't afraid that it would melt down one day and burn my house down."

I can see that that could be a consideration!

You might have an 'induction motor'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_motor

Sorry to say that's WAY beyond my experience. What I can tell you is that there are two types of resistance in an electric circuit - one is what we know as resistance (things that conduct DC poorly because of the nature of the materials the electricity is going through), and the other is things that conduct somewhat poorly because of the nature of the configuration of certain elements once AC current is going through them. https://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae517.cfm

An inductor motor is basically just two sets of copper coils, and, as a DC conductor, copper is a dead short. So as the motor is starting up and before all the magnetic fields get established within the motor that provide impedance (AC resistance), the motor is a (near) dead short and draws a ton of electricity. You'll probably see the house lights dim as it starts up. On the other side of operation, as you're pulling the plug, all the magnetic fields that have been established start to collapse and continue to drive current - hence the arcing at the outlet.


Anyway, supposedly you can find the motor's start-up power draw rating indirectly on the face plate. There are some numbers that allow you to calculate what that is.

I think you should ask an electrician or someone knowledgeable.

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