raincitygirl | (no subject)

Would anybody like a slightly used domestic shorthair cat? Because she is working my last nerve. Yesterday she managed to jump on the kitchen counter and knock a full plate of food to the floor, breaking the plate and scattering my dinner all over the linoleum. AND she knocked over her water bowl, walked through the ensuing puddle of water, and then tracked muddy paw prints all over the bed sheets, which meant I had to strip the bed. She's not usually LIKE this. I want my normal cat back, not Ms. Klutzy McClumsyson.

Does anybody on my f-list/dwircle have any experience with buying movies and TV shows on iTunes, rather than buying physical DVDs and Blu-Rays? I am running out of bookshelf space on which to put my plentiful collection of geeky media. If you buy the thing on iTunes, do you have to watch it on your laptop screen, or can you hook up your laptop to your television? And if the latter, how difficult is it to do, on a technical level? What are the pros and cons of having media stored digitally rather than physical discs? Thank you in advance for your expertise and advice.

I feel gross and don't wanna go to work. I'm going to drag my carcass there, but I intend to bitch about it.

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I don't know about iTunes, but I found that hooking a laptop up to the tv was as easy as buying a hdmi cord, plugging one end to the laptop and one end to the TV. You then find the hdmi input setting on the tv (we have a source button for tv vs av vs hdmi) and setting the laptop to play on a projector (for our laptops, it's just pressing F4 until you get to"duplicate screens").

I thought it would be hard, but once I worked out how to do it, it was easier than hooking up a dvd player.

The other replies I've received suggest that iTunes is not the way I want to go, owing to the fact that you basically are just leasing the content, you don't actually OWN it. I like owning stuff.

But that's very useful to know about the HDMI cord. I connect laptops to projectors and videoconference systems all the time at work, so theoretically I could do it at home too.