Power: Many long distance cruisers now carry nice laptops in addition to the
standard charts. These laptops can treat the cruiser to a movie now and again
with almost no power penalty.

A laptop is no TV. Yes, really.

It's not? Laptops can play movies just fine, thank you.

Television:
1 : an electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving
objects together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that
converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible
light rays and audible sound

Sounds like the Laptop and flat panel qualify! You're wrong again!

RB

On 28 Jan 2004 14:01:09 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote:

Power: Many long distance cruisers now carry nice laptops in addition to the
standard charts. These laptops can treat the cruiser to a movie now and again
with almost no power penalty.

A laptop is no TV. Yes, really.

It's not? Laptops can play movies just fine, thank you.

Television:
1 : an electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving
objects together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that
converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible
light rays and audible sound

Sounds like the Laptop and flat panel qualify! You're wrong again!

With your logic a laptop is also a plane, ship and locomotive...

Cheers!


Remco

Sounds like the Laptop and flat panel qualify! You're wrong again!

With your logic a laptop is also a plane, ship and locomotive...

Who's logic? The laptop is also a TV. Period.

RB

On 28 Jan 2004 16:21:01 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote:

Sounds like the Laptop and flat panel qualify! You're wrong again!

With your logic a laptop is also a plane, ship and locomotive...

Who's logic? The laptop is also a TV. Period.

....


Cheers!


Remco

You could at least point out that a tuner for a computer is roughly $100.


"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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Sounds like the Laptop and flat panel qualify! You're wrong again!

With your logic a laptop is also a plane, ship and locomotive...

Who's logic? The laptop is also a TV. Period.

RB

You could at least point out that a tuner for a computer is roughly $100.


I didn't bother because I think the ideal use is to carry a small library of
movies on DVD, which takes up next to no room.
Do you actually watch broadcast TV on the Cat, Jeff?

RB

"Bobsprit" wrote in message

I didn't bother because I think the ideal use is to carry a small library of
movies on DVD, which takes up next to no room.
Do you actually watch broadcast TV on the Cat, Jeff?


Sure, what's wrong with broadcast? Remember, we usually go out for 2 or 3
weeks at a time; we spend more than half of the summer living on board. New
England has the best TV weather reports in the country, and that alone makes it
worth having. Plus, the odd news or sports event, etc - there's nothing wrong
with staying in touch. Actually, the TV/VCR probably got more use for movies,
but we now have a little DVD player that will replace that.

It very common for 9 to 5ers to think that boating requires "vacating" the
normal routine. When you're retired, its just living aboard part of the time.
And besides, giving up the internet is a lot harder fro me than giving up TV.

-jeff

You pick up broadcasts from the middle of the ocean? WOW! Don't forget
your satelite phone and your credit card.

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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Sounds like the Laptop and flat panel qualify! You're wrong again!

With your logic a laptop is also a plane, ship and locomotive...

Who's logic? The laptop is also a TV. Period.

RB

You pick up broadcasts from the middle of the ocean? WOW!


Gayanzy thinks a TV won't work with DVDs.

Bwahahahaha!

RB

Bob thinks he needs a 36 inch color set on a passage.

CM

"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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| You pick up broadcasts from the middle of the ocean? WOW!
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| Gayanzy thinks a TV won't work with DVDs.
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| Bwahahahaha!
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| RB