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I have not been on this forum in a while. I have two kids now, and that may be why... Anyway. We moved into a bigger appartment with a nicer living room, which is now taken up by my HT setup... again. IT's still cheap, but I like it. Here's what I have: -Custom made HTPC/ 16gigs ram/ AMD...

Hey guys, haven't been on in a while. Had a kid, forgot about internet forums, etc... BUT! I did move all the way from Puget Sound WA, back to the Bay Area in CA. I basically fire-saled all my stuff and moved (because I owed some shady people money). Not really, we just really felt depressed...

So, this is our first house WITHOUT any kind of room-mates. (big step for me.) It's a duplex in a private lot (basically a really long double-wide cut in half, with extensions build on) It was total crap when we moved in, but it's coming along nicely and allowing for a lot of renovations...

So, I saw a baggie with headphones in it at a thrift store about a year ago, and bought them, they were $1.00. The look of them screams vintage, which is probably why they sold them so low and/or didn't care. The markings on the side have since peeled off, but they gold stickers on the side that...

I was wondering if there was a market for stuff like this. I've had a Panasonic RQ-84 (Karaoke machine) that I found when I was in Highschool at a garage sale for $10.00, and I just found it in the garage while unpacking more of the moving boxes. I was wondering if people collected this sort of...

... whoever can find me the user's manual for the Optoma Dx617 Projector or similar model, or the lamp removal instructions. If you think clicking "user manual" for the projector on Optoma's site will work, you're out of luck, I've been all over google and yahoo searching for it. I'm hoping...

Wait till it comes out on DVD or Blu-Ray. Definitly one of the worst movies Tim Burton has ever done. Don't bother seeing it in 3d if you do go to the theaters though. There are no 3d effects or anything aside from some flowers that are in your face, that's it. The 3d adds to the very animated...

I know it's not quite the same and it uses little mirrors, but is is possible to have "dead" spots on the screen? I just had an issue today while using my PC to play a game on my Optoma DLP projector, that there were three white dots on the screen that would flicker in the same spot. Then that...

My wife always asks me what songs are, so I need to know. It's a song, and they play it on the radio all the time. She thinks it's a rock song, and it has some words in it that sound cool. Does anyone know what this song is? :confused: I'm basically going through all the radio stations...

I was trying to get a couple things from the only audio shop around and listened to the audio salesman (who is a really cool guy by the way, and I have nothing against him) try to sell equipment to two people. Me and my buddy were going in to just ask him if he wanted to come by our house and...

Is it just me or is this one of the worst quality Blu-Ray's I've ever seen? The movie itself is just fine, that's not the problem, but is there any reason I have to turn my Receiver up to +4db just to hear the subwoofer or feel like there's any dynamics to it whatsoever? Popped in Punisher right...

So I've always wondered why they have advertisements on DVD's for buying Blu Rays, I understand the marketing concept, but they show little clips of movies during action sequences and then say things like "stunning picture quality" "5.1 Surround" etc... are you supposed to look at that clip and...

so, I just swapped my custom HP into a HTPC sideways case, and everything went in the new case just as it was, with all the proper hookups, and it has an integrated MOBO sound card, so there's no way that's not hooked up, but now, If I go to play any music or any kind of audio on the PC, it will...

so I saw these on Amazon, and Had no idea they molded HTPC's to look like receivers, and I was thinking that I'd swap my PC over to one, but I have a better HTPC case for that. The idea was to put the XBOX 360 into one of these, and the Ps3 into another, with small metal logos for both, kind of...

So, I know you can't go directly from hdmi to component cable, because that would be silly, as it's a digital signal to analog. But some receivers allow you to put video into it in one way, and then out in another, so I assume it would be possible to get a box or something that converts it...

This time around when I moved into our room and house, the carpet was terrible, so I had an excuse to rip it up and run the wires around the side of the carpet padding (which also needed to be replaced) and decided to build the baseboard around all the furniture, rather than having to be at the...

I ordered this off Amazon for about $30 as it's on sale, so I decided, "why not?" even if it's junk I won't feel bad or even bother sending it back. When I got it, it was larger and heavier than I imagined. It's about 7" in diameter and weighs about 3 pounds. If you hold out your hand, and...

I got an amplifier to use for both playing guitar, microphone etc, to add to my collection, and I was trying to test it with just a subwoofer off of my receiver to see if it worked before I unpacked one of my mics or anything. I have it all plugged in, and the fans are a little loud, but no big...

So, I recently acquired a Yamaha HTR-5250 that I have been using as my receiver for the last couple weeks. It was great find as even though it is about 9 or so years old, the owner kept the remote control, manual, and even the warranty papers (though useless now) in perfect condition. It was...

So I'm moving into a place where I will basically have a mini-theater setup next to an earth-moving theater on the other side of the wall. The house was built in 1969 so I doubt there's much for insulation or anything. I have seen things saying I can mount another layer of sheet rock on top of...