I bought a Sony remote without a touch screen for under $30 that learns signals from other remotes and has macro ability. I had bought a touch-screen Sony in the past but was sick of having to look down at it every time I wanted to push a button.

All this is is a gimmick.

HD DVD will probably survive as a data format for computers, but if you buy an HD DVD movie now, you've just wasted your money. THIS is why I would not buy either format and stuck with DVD. The sheer surprise by the HD DVD group that Warner has pulled out shows that they do not have a backup plan to retaliate.

And frankly, good riddance to Lebedev anyway. I've never seen a company take so long getting a product from hype to a shipping product.

2 years ago Netflix kept sending me broken DVD's. And it wasn't just occasionally random, it was often. A couple times I received a title I wanted, broken several times. I had ordered a disc from the Looney Tunes Golden Collection. I received the disc broken, 8 times in a row. That's right. 8 times. I even sent the 7th broken disc to the CEO of Netflix, with no reply.

I couldn't even fathom how the same exact title could arrive at my house broken 8 times, so I figured they weren't even checking the disc and just sending it back out to me. Or, for some reason they were breaking the disc on purpose to throttle me. Whatever conspiracy you want. They told me it was the post office. I told Netflix, that unless the Post Office has X-Ray vision, how do they know which title to break 8 times in a row? I was paying for 3 discs at a time, but with all the broken discs, it only turned out to be 2 discs at a time, and demanded a refund of the difference. I got so tired of doing this, I switched to Blockbuster.

In the one year I've had Blockbuster, I've only received one broken disc. Hmmmm. Now either the post office hates Netflix and likes Blockbuster, or Netflix employees are as incompetent as McDonald's employees.

You can't factor modern technology into his lack of good design back then. The TI-99 was a really nice looking computer and it was designed almost 10 years before anything he made.

We got beige boxes because Apple was cheap back then. They charged way too much for too little.

Second, who is going to believe this will be a feature in the next version of Windows. Microsoft still has all the stuff they pulled out of Vista to work on.

NOOOOO!!! Don't let your friend listen to it! You and your friend will be arrested and waterboarded!

It's just a bunch of old, crotchety skanks who don't want to let go of the past.

Just about any employee I would talk to at CompUSA, if could find any available at all, I would ask a question and you could hear circus music come out of their mouth.

One time I couldn't find an employee to help me and had to walk into their lunchroom to get one.

My friend Joe worked there since they opened as Soft Warehouse in 1985 up until a 2003. I would always hear stories about management that would just leave me saying, "What a bunch of dumbasses". If he were alive today, I'm sure he would have liked to have seen its downfall.