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Message: [QUOTE="tomcat, post: 2026957, member: 961"] Yes, and I was one of those who said no one would ever pay all that dough to put a computer in their house. Goes to show what I know, yes? But I'm not talking about the video as a demonstration of the progress we as a society have made with digitized audio. I was commenting on it as a vehicle to communicate messages, which is, I assume, what it was created to do. I found --and it may have been just me -- that the video had problems not only with the fact that the audio was not very "life-like," but significant problems in volume modulation as well. Anyway, if a significant number of potential listeners turn it off, as I did, because it's too damn much trouble to try to figure out what the computer is saying, it may succeed as an example of technology while failing as a message. [/QUOTE]