On 23/05/07, Cory Papenfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most likely a mechanical failure in the camcorder, and either a > mechanical failure or electronic overheating in the DVD player. Properly > designed solid-state electronics will last practically until the sun burns > out (or the electrolytic caps fail).
I should add by citing a very recent example of equipment failure that I experienced. Yesterday my network printer printed one job but the next was stuck in the queue and would not print. The problem turned out to be the JetDirect network interface card in the printer, it was simply no more, nothing fried on it (and no tinned electros either funny enough) but the printer completely failed to recognize it any longer. It had on board a Philips ARM processor, Samsung RAM, Broadcom LAN interface and another AMD CPU plus a handful of passive components. I'm sure that the components could be designed to me more robust but I'm also sure that in this case they would have all be working well within their design parameters however it broke for no apparent reason. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
