Computer moved

[pne]

By the way, we finally got our computer moved into the bedroom last weekend. The phones are now in the hallway; fortunately, the DSL cable is just long enough to reach the computer.

And Stella and I bought a 15m television cable and she connected that a couple of days ago; now we have radio and television in our computer.

Random factoid: this is the first time I've had something capable of showing television since I moved out from my parents' house in 1997. I thought I wouldn't need television now, either, and didn't want to pay the monthly fee, but removing the card from the computer looked more difficult than I had thought so we decided to leave it in any pay more (I was already paying for radio but the fee for TV is higher). And since we were already paying, Stella decided to buy a cable so that we could take advantage of it.

And the scanner also worked fairly well, though it was initially confused after being plugged into a different USB port from when the computer was in the other room. But reinstalling the drivers fixed that. The printer, on the other hand, was fine with the new arrangement, and the USB cradle for my PDA as well (though that did mention it had "found new hardware", but didn't prompt me for drivers and Just Worked).

So now the other room is ready as a nursery; my old desk will be a changing table, and the bed is in the corner where Stella wants it (where my desk used to be).

Comments

[sovereigna.livejournal.com]

you have to pay monthly for each tv and radio??

why? is it cable?

[pne.livejournal.com]

you have to pay monthly for each tv and radio??

Not quite; I have to pay monthly for having radio or TV, but I only pay once regardless of how many receivers I have in the same household. (If I had a radio at work or in a holiday cottage, I'd have to pay extra, or for any car radios beyond the first.)

why? is it cable?

Well, that too, in my case, but I'd have to pay the cable fee even if I have no receivers since it's part of the fixed costs my landlord deducts.

But the cost for radio and TV receivers is to finance German public broadcasting; there are some stations which do not have advertising and which are financed by a fee you have to pay by law as soon as you have an operational receiver (even if you don't use it, and even if it's not operational but can be made operational easily).

These stations are to provide for a basic coverage with information and culture.

There are also a large number of private companies broadcasting radio or TV, which finance themselves via advertising. (Though private TV is fairly new; it wasn't around when I was a little kid, and there were basically only two private channels while I was a young teenager.)

I believe the UK has a similar system where BBC is funded by a licensing cost every radio/TV listener has to pay.

[sovereigna.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's just weird. :)
All we have to worry about for free-to-air tv is the cost of a tv, and electricity. That gives us 4 national channels (one with no commercials) and 3 of the four national channels also have local varieties as well. If you want cable tv, then you have to pay the monthly fee. Radio's are free too.. and they have billions of (often useless) stations.