Monday 02/05/2024
A day of accomplishments. First off I solved the vexing issue where the sound from the new Blu-Ray player came out but the video did not. I knew it had to do with the fact that the player was hooked up to a big-ass Yamaha receiver, which in turn drives the TV and speaker system. Last night I downloaded and read the manual for the receiver, which kinda indicated that you could hook anything to its HDMI inputs but only the formats that suited the TV hooked to the output would get through. So I realized, OK, the player shakes hands with the receiver and the receiver says, I can take anything, whatta ya got? and the player says, I’m a super modern player I can send anything, and they settle on the max, 4K resolution. But then the receiver says, 4K won’t suit my old TV, it only does 1080p, and doesn’t pass the video through.
So the answer was to hook the player directly to the TV so I could see its output (because when the player shakes hands with the TV they agree on whatever the TV can handle) and then use its setup menu to set it to output a max resolution of 1080p.
Now when I connect it to the receiver again, the receiver gets a 1080p video signal and passes it right along to the TV. It worked and I was very pleased with myself. This was all before 9am, mind you.
Then at 9am I had a date with Lois for a tech squad call, and was able to resolve three problems with Gmail and MacOS for her. No bugs, just using things the wrong way.
Which led to 10am when I went to the auditorium to set up for Oscar’s book talk. This was the deal where he is talking about the book Passing and showing clips from the movie. But the video clips had been prepared and were shown by his buddy David Richardson, so all I had to do was turn the system on and set things up, then hand over to Richardson to run the video.
Right after lunch at 1pm I went up to 11 to help Alice set up the mics for a 3pm Chinese New Year party. She had had a problem yesterday trying it out, but she had now solved her own problem before I got there, so we just went over a couple of things and I could leave.
I went to FOPAL. I had set up my section ready for the sale, on Saturday. But I neglected to put up the “HOLD” flag so I was afraid the sorters would have put some donations out for me. As it happened there was only one box, which I quickly disposed of. Set the Hold flag so nothing more would be put out, and came home. Spent a nice remainder of the afternoon napping and playing the guitar. I really have a nice life.
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