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    Question wall plug alarm when appliance turns off

    This would have been good, except the company closed in 2022 and since all notifications were routed through the company first, any old stock available is useless. My dryer does have an alarm when finished, but it is not loud enough for me to hear it outside of the laundry room. Hmmm. Now i'm...
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    Question wall plug alarm when appliance turns off

    My new washing machine sends a wifi alert when it finishes washing. Unfortunately my 25+ year old dryer does not. Does anyone know of a device that would plug into the 120vac wall outlet and the dryer plug into it. Then when the dryer shuts off and stops drawing power, the device would sound an...
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    play mp4 files on a blu-ray player

    It's interesting that you were able to play mp4 video but it stuttered. If I just put an mp4 file on a data DVD it might play ok (my DVD player will play MP2 files on a DVD ok), guess I can take a disk into the store to try. Some BR players can accept input via USB, ethernet, or wifi, but...
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    play mp4 files on a blu-ray player

    I have a lot of mp4 HD videos that I currently play on my computer using VLC. My video card outputs video and audio through its HDMI port, so I watch them on my HDTV. But VLC does not have very good way to reverse, slow, or step a frame at a time. I see a lot of Bluray players will play mp4...