Keys To My Heart

I bought a little tv to play DVDs after Christmas. There is a great story about this first. I usually go to Jasper or Bedford but for some reason I decided to go to the Washington Wal-Mart for the first time since it was built. I asked for help getting the one I wanted unchained (they had all of the 19″ Vizio tvs hooked together–what a sad comment on our society), and the girl at the register was one of my former students. Ashley looked great, and I talked to her about Mrs. Trueblood and her days at NDE. She said she was married, had one little girl, and another baby was on the way. It was wonderful seeing her!

Now back to the recall. After I got it home I thought it would be a good idea to hook it up to my computer for a 2nd monitor. Well, that didn’t work. I have a Sony Vaio All-In-One, and didn’t realize that it doesn’t even have any computer outputs. I looked on the Sony website for possible graphics card updates and saw my computer cord was recalled due to electrical shock hazard. I checked the parts number, and sure enough, mine is on the list. I ordered the part. They say not to use the computer anymore. They have got to be kidding. Really? I haven’t even got the email response back from them, and I’m supposed to wait until they decide to send me a part?

Back to the output problem. I found a dandy little device that I’m going to get as soon as I pay for my medical bills, Christmas, etc. It will output any monitor through a USB port to DVI or VGA ports on the tv, and it even sends the audio too through RCA jacks. When I’m working on my genealogy, I have dozens of pages open, including my legacy software and my genealogy website. It clutters the screen pretty fast so this would really be a nice fix. Here is the details on the Arkview USB WA62 to DVI/VGA/HDMI.

I also found one from Atlona that says it does video on the extended tv, so I might have to do some research first. Here is a link to the Atlona. It looks a little less cluttered and comes with all the cords needed, but it only does HDMI. I can’t imagine the need to hook up to anything but that though.