Some technical questions as regards new computer and various electronic devices.

Have a new computer. Don't want to sync iPhone because it has a bunch of old photos synced from old compromised computer which was hacked. I'd have SWORN I backed up my pictures on the external hard drive I used to keep most of my iTunes music, but can find it there. Outside of sending these hundreds of pictures via e-mail and then saving them onto the PC hard drive out of order since they'd all dated from when I took them and of like to keep it that way, can I do anything else? Having trouble with the Podcasts too. Why does Apple no longer have a download all option?! I keep trying to put them in from the hard drive, and the computer gets scrambled and can't seem to find the source files for them. I've tried asking about the stuff on Apple's forums, and I can't find any information from them, because apparently no on feels like answering.

I realize this is an incredibly stupid question, but as I still live with my parents, it is technically their computer. As they paid for, I have no right to complain or ask for specific features, but I want to know if the computer is capable of handling HD, and if there was any method of connecting the DVR to it to preserve some recordings I have which are not available on video. How would I tell this?

On another note, the fact that Netflix advertises super HD, I have so far been unable to get my Blu-ray player or my father Smart TV to buffer up to 1080 P, even though they are both advertised as being capable of doing it. Is it possible to get the Wi-Fi to do it without anything that cable connected to the device? It's possible to do without a VPN (which I do not want to pay for). I have heard that most ISPs will not admit it, but they throttle streaming services. When I used Vudu, sometimes it is full 1080p, but it frequently blurs. How can I tell how fast the Wi-Fi is going? When I contacted AT&T via their customer chat, they sent me to a website, and told me that the speed at which my modem was running and my wife I wore it was running more optimal, but I do not remember what that number was, or if they were simply telling me when I should get better. I'm a major digital skeptic (RIP Kodak :(), but if they want me to adopt did you want to see you soon and streaming over physical media, one of the first steps would be figuring out how the hell to solve problems like this one the data loads are so heavy.

Mike O said:

Have a new computer. Don't want to sync iPhone because it has a bunch of old photos synced from old compromised computer which was hacked. I'd have SWORN I backed up my pictures on the external hard drive I used to keep most of my iTunes music, but can find it there. Outside of sending these hundreds of pictures via e-mail and then saving them onto the PC hard drive out of order since they'd all dated from when I took them and of like to keep it that way, can I do anything else? Having trouble with the Podcasts too. Why does Apple no longer have a download all option?! I keep trying to put them in from the hard drive, and the computer gets scrambled and can't seem to find the source files for them. I've tried asking about the stuff on Apple's forums, and I can't find any information from them, because apparently no on feels like answering.

I realize this is an incredibly stupid question, but as I still live with my parents, it is technically their computer. As they paid for, I have no right to complain or ask for specific features, but I want to know if the computer is capable of handling HD, and if there was any method of connecting the DVR to it to preserve some recordings I have which are not available on video. How would I tell this?

On another note, the fact that Netflix advertises super HD, I have so far been unable to get my Blu-ray player or my father Smart TV to buffer up to 1080 P, even though they are both advertised as being capable of doing it. Is it possible to get the Wi-Fi to do it without anything that cable connected to the device? It's possible to do without a VPN (which I do not want to pay for). I have heard that most ISPs will not admit it, but they throttle streaming services. When I used Vudu, sometimes it is full 1080p, but it frequently blurs. How can I tell how fast the Wi-Fi is going? When I contacted AT&T via their customer chat, they sent me to a website, and told me that the speed at which my modem was running and my wife I wore it was running more optimal, but I do not remember what that number was, or if they were simply telling me when I should get better. I'm a major digital skeptic (RIP Kodak :(), but if they want me to adopt did you want to see you soon and streaming over physical media, one of the first steps would be figuring out how the hell to solve problems like this one the data loads are so heavy.

iCloud? After this fiasco in the news? None of those pictures are offensive or incriminating, but I still don't know.... But if it's the only way. I will respond to your post more fully when I am I have a physical computer, but in Firefox, I have set the settings to clear history when it leaves except for active logins, but for some reason, even though it saves the passwords, it doesn't keep me logged in. Previously, when I had Firefox, I was able to close Firefox and clear all of the history but keep everything out which I was logged into. Also, is there anyway to put the iPhone backups I have saved on the external hard drive back into iTunes? Just for precautionary purposes. I like having them around. Incidentally, I bought the Command and Conquer First Decade DVD, and it keeps freezing on me. It's probably because it's only designed to run with a version of Windows which is much lower than the one which I can we have, Windows 8, but is there anything to be done about it? I also have to transfer my old Firefox favorites. 

And yes, Apple's podcasts app is terrible! Trying to delete something off of the phones hard drive causes it to get to leave it in the computer, and vice versa, then I have to re-download it again. I don't get why can't be like my old iPod, simply download everything on the computer, transferred to the MP3 device, and then uncheck the selection and re-sync, and it goes away. It's irritating as hell, I don't know what Apple were thinking, or perhaps they simply weren't.

Also, I picked up Disney's World of Wonder disc, how long will calibrating my cheap HDTV take? A half hour? An hour? The blues and reds keep bleeding, for starters. It's an inexpensive LED, I'd love a plasma, but don't have the money, and won't have the chance come the end of the year. It also has a bajillion subsettings in addition to the regular controls, and I don't know what the hell they do. And that's not even counting the SRS sound, which much be useful if I was actually in the center of the room. Anyhow? Anyone done this before? How long did it take?

OK, so back to the first part ;)...

Oh, and Command and Conquer: The First Decade keeps fucking freezing, and Yuri's Revenge won't play at all. 

God, I wish there was a mobile version of this forum, it's a bitch on an iPhone. 

TV's Frink said:

doubleKO said:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-to-Calibrate-your-TV-Please-read-the-first-post/post/592177/

 Good times.

Agreed. Even better times: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-to-Calibrate-your-TV-Please-read-the-first-post/post/600997/#TopicPost600997

Wow! Almost two years ago!

Just got off of a 40 minute phone call with Apple. Because the photos are backed up in the cloud, they have solve themselves all responsibility and wash their hands. I can email the 1400 photos and 30 Videos to myself one of the time, or I can go fuck myself. As for the music, I transferred it off of my old computer's hard drive onto an external hard drive so that I wouldn't have to reload the hundreds of CDs into iTunes with lyrics and album artwork, and the versions that I loaded off of the external hard drive onto the new computer no longer work. It cannot find files. Fuck. My. Life. And now I have more threads to go through with that HDTV stuff ;). 

Mike O said:

they have solve themselves all responsibility

Cool eggcorn! http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/

I think you meant to write "absolve".

Mike O said:

As for the music, I transferred it off of my old computer's hard drive onto an external hard drive so that I wouldn't have to reload the hundreds of CDs into iTunes with lyrics and album artwork, and the versions that I loaded off of the external hard drive onto the new computer no longer work. It cannot find files.

Do you mean iTunes can't find the files or something else can't find the files on the external HDD?

I moved the files from the folders off of the old computer onto the external, dragged them into iTunes. Each one can't be found when I try to play it. Hopefully, the guy will be able to get the photos off of the old CPU, but I can't get an answer about it. But the music was moved thus: from CDs to interal HDD on he old computer. Internal HDD on the old computer to external HDD. External HDD to internal HDD on new computer. Now the files "can't be located." Apple washes their hands of it. If you don't buy from iTunes and use iCloud services, fuck ya, it isn't their problem. 

Here's how you get your pictures:

Install Dropbox on your phone.
Install Dropbox on the computer.
Have Dropbox upload all of your pictures from your phone.
All of your pictures download on the computer.

As for the music, you have to set iTunes to copy the files to your iTunes folder when you drag the files in, or it just creates links to the external drive, which won't work once the drive is disconnected.

I feel like a moron for not knowing that I should've put them on the hard drive rather than just dragged hem into iTunes, thank you. I should be getting the external and the tower back at the end of the week, if I can't get the photos off of that, I'll use Dropbox. How much will it cost? I don't suppose it'll keep the iPhone's logged locations and dates for when the pictures were taken. I'll look at Winamp too, whatever it is. Thank you guys. I'm glad that this kind of thing exists for morons like me to ask for help. 

Unfortunately, the setup of Wondows 8i s not intuitive, so moving from the external to the computer is harder than it should be, frankly. 

And the adventure continues! Got the old tower back, theoretically free of viruses, and moved everything off of it onto the external hard drive. The iPhone phots are grouped in files as per the day they were taken, but when I put them into the photos folder on the new computer, they aren't syncing the same way for some weird-ass reason. And though the music has been transferred over, it's syncinh to the phone sans album artwork, but with the added lyrics which I added. They're in the itunes files proper, because they come up when I look. 

OK, the party never stops. So I got the photos from the tower to the external to the new hard drive. But when I sync them to my iPhone, I find something peculiar: the ones I actually took are all sorted under the appropriate folders, but the ones saved onto the phone from various websites are no longer sorted under the proper dates. Is this a new thing with iOS 8, or is it just another side effect of moving everything? I don't suppose I can get it back to the old way?

Oh, and more fun: I picked up an Ethernet cable. Much to my surprise, my DVR has an Ethernet port, and when I connect that to the Blu-ray player, it does in fact get me online! However, I naively assumed that his would be faster than the WiFi, but I'm still having trouble getting it above 720p. The thought of AT&T throttling me has certainly crossed my mind, why doesn't it come at full bore through the Ethernet as opposed to the WiFi? How will they handle charging me for data consumption? I assume it doesn't count under WiFi?

On a tangential note as regards the music itself, is there any way to preserve the playlists? I can recreate them in the new iTunes account, but the Sherlock Holmes audiobook series I have has all of the stories out of order, so putting them back in order would be a gigantic pain in the neck. And while this probably wouldn't matter to a normal, well-adjusted person who gets laid once in a while ;), can you manually set the number of plays on a song? It's a small thing, but it sub-grouped some stuff that way in the old iTunes account, so I was wondering if I could tell the new computer what said numbers were? I could check them and set songs on repeat, but that'd not only be a pain in the neck, but the final definitive proof that I have too much free time :D.

PS The phone keeps disconnecting and reconnecting when syncing. A bad cable, I assume? And by the by, what is "other?"

I'm a moron, I tried to delete this post, contacted AT&T, it won't buffer above because of the plan I'm paying for. I'd have to pay more for more Mbps, I should check that before asking stupid questions. Thanks all. We need a "delete post" button.