New to HD Blu-Ray video

I just got a new Panasonic 50" Plasma HD TV with home theater sound, and Sony PS3 Blu-Ray player (I don't play games, and wanted the PS3 just to play Blu-Ray and other video disks). I have many interests, including Opera and Classical Music, Adventure & Action movies, International Travel, and Foreign Language w/English subtitle movies, as I have lived all over the world and exposed to many languages, some of which I have picked up. I have a much-too large DVD collection, but now will only buy Blu-Ray videos as the quality at 1080p is so much better. But even my old DVDs when upgraded to better video resolution through my PS3 look much better than they did with my old TV. But now I am installing a Snow Leopard Mac Home Server on my dedicated iMac for my local Mac & PC network, and want to build an on-line library of music and videos to play through my new HD TV through whatever means I can find, probably through my Apple TV but am always open to improved quality where ever I can find it. I use my new MacBook 13" Pro for my work station on my network, which works great together with my Home Server. Now I am thinking about using a Mini-Mac as a controller for my TV interface to my computer network, which I am told makes the best system with today's technology, but I have a lot to learn to insure that any improvement this brings is worth it. I would love to communicate with others who are working along the same technology lines for home entertainment centers. I am retired from IBM Research for 19 years already, and am now 83 years young, in perfect health, crediting my vegan vegetarian lifestyle for my longevity.

Delicious Library 2

Delicious Library 2

I'm getting a new iPhone GS3 S this Friday which has a much improved camera built in. I wonder if anyone knows whether I can use this camera to scan book barcodes like I can do with the iSight camera on my Mac, or a Rov scanner?

Charles Wilkes, San Jose, Calif. cfw123@gmail.com

Library of Charles Wilkes

I've been collecting books, and much later DVDs and Music CDs & Cassette Tapes, etc. all my life, and as I will turn or have turned 83 on July 19, 2009, this has been a long time indeed.

At this stage of my life, I have read probably every book I will ever get to read, listened to every music item I will ever get to listen to, and watched every DVD or Video I will ever get to watch. My main concern now is to insure that these do not end up in a land fill once someone needs to clean out my house after my demise.   I'm healthy in mind and body at this moment, but at my age, who knows when this will change.

I'm an avid Mac user these days, and when I saw the Delicious Library product, saw this as a means of creating a catalog of my holdings in order to offer these for sale to someone who really wants it.   I tried doing this manually on a keyboard, but it was just too much for me.

As my catalog grows, I want to offer these where they will attract buyers who will offer a reasonable price for items they would like to own.   Every item I hold was once an item which I wanted to hold in my library, so surely there are people who discovering what I have to offer, will chose to buy those of interest to them, just as I did when I first obtained my holdings.

My interests are very broad, ranging from the humanities to the latest technologies, which I have kept right up to date with following my retirement from the IBM Corp. Research Division in April of 1990 here in San Jose, California.   

I will place my holdings on the internet when I can do so, and also offer them for sale through the usual auction houses such as EBAY, Amazon, Alibris, Wig, and any others -- I welcome readers alerting me to places which I could add to this list.   In the meantime, I will certainly welcome direct inquiries based on my holdings as shown on the website once it is created.   I will identify this website here once it exists, and attempt to keep it up to date as things change.

Charles Wilkes

101 Morrow Court

San Jose, CA 95139

408-229-2742

cfw123@gmail.com