Time to uograde my old mouse? Optical? Cordless?

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CBFalconer

Buurp said:
When Betamax came out, everyone went and got one.
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IIRC the major difference, when both VHS and Beta were available,
was that VHS had a longer available recording time for the same
tape length. This changed later, but people had already made the
choice, which didn't include video quality.

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CBFalconer said:
IIRC the major difference, when both VHS and Beta were available,
was that VHS had a longer available recording time for the same
tape length. This changed later, but people had already made the
choice, which didn't include video quality.
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But the tapes were labeled in minutes, not how long the tape was physically?
I do remember that our betamax tapes had lengths that seemed odd though -
like 90 or 100mins or something. Maybe that's just I thought after we got a
VHS as well and I got more used to that.

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Rob Morley

IIRC the major difference, when both VHS and Beta were available,
was that VHS had a longer available recording time for the same
tape length. This changed later, but people had already made the
choice, which didn't include video quality.
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The deciding factor was the availability of rental tapes - Sony learned
that lesson the hard way, and now own lots of movie and music rights to
try to stop it happening again.
 
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Rob Nicholson

I bought a wireless mouse and keyboard and returned it 48 hours later.
It suffered intermittent connections and was a complete pain. They may
well be better now (this was a couple of years ago) but I'd need some
convincing still.
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I'm currently testing a friend's wireless TCM keyboard and mouse which they
bought and have had trouble with. When I first plugged it in, the keyboard
missed key presses. However, that might be finger trouble as my original
keyboard is a natural one whereas the wireless one I'm typing on now isn't.
The mouse though is not as accurate - the mouse jerks around the screen and
doesn't move smoothly. The base station (which is also the mouse charger) is
about 30cm away but it's not in the same plane - the keyboard and mouse are
on a shelf about 10cm below the transmitter. Would that cause a problem?

One gotcha (which could be where my friend is having trouble) is that the
mouse and keyboard power down after a period of non-use. This is most
noticeable with the mouse which requires a key click (not just movement) to
wake it up. At first I thought it was bust as I do the usual trick of
jiggling the mouse to key the monitor to come out of power save. Instead,
you have to press the mouse button.

Only the mouse has a charger and I assume this is because the mouse uses
more power as it's sending far more information.

Cheers, Rob.
 
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Rob Nicholson

Several days is quite poor.

But not entirely uncommon I don't think. We had a series of wireless
keyboards & mice in the meeting room and had trouble with batteries. The
last one we got (a Logitech I think) has a wire for charging the keyboard or
mouse. Kind of defeats the whole idea :)

Rob.
 
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