Online videos hanging could well be to do with your connection to your provider. When watching a video that starts to hang just click the pause button for a few seconds to allow the buffer to build. You should see the cache continue to build then click to play again. While it does not correct the DVD problem you might consider an external DVD player/burner. Some listed below to give you a price spread. Did you try anything that Bob suggested above? Is the Time Warner program a full anti virus and anti malware combination or purely anti virus? Here is a link that might be useful: Sampling of external DVD player/burner

It seems that you need a new receiver, although you may also need a new set of speakers for the new receiver. This in turn will blow the top of your $500.00 and bring you closer to $1,000. You can buy a decent receiver from $200.00 as high as you want to go (the sky is the limit). Some receivers under $500.00 I can think of: 1. Onkyo TX-SR505. This receiver costs under $300.00. It's a 75-Watt x 7 channel receiver that has a 1080p HDMI switching circuit. This feature allows you to connect two high definition DVD players, and switch between the two, sending the best digital signal (1080p) to your HD TV. 2. Onkyo TX-SR605 (the one I plan to buy in the near future) costs under $500.00. This one can switch an analog video signal and convert it before sending it out the HDMI cable. It can also switch between two high definition videos (like the first one), and it can provide two different sounds (music) to two locations in you home (example: someone can listen to Elvis in the basement, while you can listen to Pink Floyd in the living room). This is a 90-Watt x 7 channels receiver, comes XM and SIRIUS ready. There are several receivers that are similar to these two, some made by Sony, Yamaha, Denon, etc., but for any of these you will need a new set of speakers to take advantage of the sound features. A set of Mirage NANOSAT speakers (subwoofer plus 5 miniature speakers) will set you back at least $790.00. The mini speakers can handle up to 100 watts each, and the sub can handle 75 watts. If you can't afford any of these receivers/speakers, then you may have to settle down for a small theatre system. These come with the speakers, a dvd player, etc., but some do not come with a receiver. Sony, and Panasonic offer great little packages that put out around 60 watts to the 2 front speakers, around 100 watts to the center speaker, around 33 watts to the 2 surround speakers (back speakers), and over 100 watts to the included subwoofer. Don't expect the best quality music and video out of these units, but they do a fine job if you are not too picky.

brilliant idea for a post.. lol ... in general.. trees like a sip of water.. and then near full drainage ... they do not prefer to be standing in a boggy media.. like many annuals/perennials ... now.. size matters ... pot size .... when starting young.... it is better to up pot repeatedly ... and to put a small plant.. in a huge pot ... and this is where the explantion gets tricky ... you tip the plant out of the pot.. and when the roots hit the side.. and go down toward the bottom.. it is time to up pot ... small pots dry real fast ... so i would tend to stay with a water retaining media ... but as the pot and tree get bigger ... i would tend to mix about 50% mini bark chunks.. or some such ... in with the usual peaty media ... to increase water drainage ... there are millions of posts on Als gritty mix.. here in the GW ... use the search engine above.. and read as many as you can stand.. until you come to understand the variables... and why they are manipulating those variables ... fert??? ... with high draining media ... you can wash out all the nutrients from a media... so you add it back in the top ... BUT!!! ... if you up pot often.. its not that big a deal ... tis when it is starting to spend a year or two.. in a larger pot... when you need to start thinking about fert .... dont know where you are.. but never fert late in the year.. it interferes with the plant going dormant .... and never think you can make them grow faster than genetics allow.. by burying them in fert ... i killed a lot of things with time release.. and came to the conclusion.. that watering in june and july with 1/4 strength water soluable fert... with every watering.. and then stopping.. is good enough ... do NOT confuse yourself with what professional mass producers do ... if they lose a couple thousands plants.. of their hundred thousands in stock .. because they threw in too much fert.. its a CODB ... cost of doing biz ... you have a greater chance of killing your few.. doing what they do ... as compared to working the other side of the coin.. of little is best ... ii am glad you started this conversation under a new title that will attract others thinking about the same .. and its searchable ... as compared to burying it in your other post ... ken ps: which water sol??? .. at 1/4 strength.. whichever ... the numbers arent all that important.. other than NOT high Nitro.. we arent growing grass ... whichever is on sale.. is the one for me ... lol... and brand name is irrelevant ... i have a 5 pound container from kmart in 1980.. that i am still working on ....

The local nursery had both, A small bale of 'Peat moss' and a bag of organic peat moss. The bale looked a little on the coarse side. Almost like chopped up Spagnum moss, compressed in a bale. The bag looked more like partially decomposed 'Peat', with more of a dirt like texture. So I didn't know which would be the better one. I've read about some using 'milled peat', which I would think is the more finer textured stuff? idk This is what the inside of the bagged stuff looked like. Outside of the bag: So did I do good? Or would the coarse 'bale' of Peat moss (sphagnum) have been better?