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Powerstrip ain't so great I've been involved with convergence since I first got a SONY CRT RPTV with an RGBHV input about 4 and half years ago. I also bought one of he very first PC HDTV (AccessDTV) tuner cards to integrate with it, so I had adopted HD back when a STB would cost you a cool...

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If your player and player's manual have the dts logo, then it is dts capable. I know with my Pioneer DVD player, you need to enable the dts output in the dvd player's setup menus, not just from the dvd disc itself. Look around and see if there is a dts setting in your initial settings or audio...

Early this month Eric Hetherington wrote an article about the law of diminishing returns on Goodsound.com, a site I frequent. View it here. Goodsound Article Here was my response to the article. Eric Hetherington. I think you are applyifng this law improperly, and in the process...

Yea I like the Rumours DVD-A as well. Sting's Brand New Day, gets a lot of play for me these days.

Most high budget films are 1.85:1 or 2.35:1. While the image might not fill the screen completely on a 16:9 set, it is certainly better than displaying a widescreen image on a 4:3 TV, where you will lose even more of your display. The only time I've felt like my 16:9 TV was inadequate was while...

Friday night the wife and I were trying to decide what to do for the evening. I suggested that we go to the movies. Our eventual choice was the new Pixar film, "The Incredibles". This was the first time I'd seen a movie outside my home theater since getting my recliners back in mid-October...

I think some of you guys are missing the most essential point of a number surround audio recordings. Many of the recording are done this way because there shouldn't (in the eyes of the recording engineers) be a need for an LFE, thus 5.0. Why you ask? Because the engineers design these recordings...

Annuaki beat me to it. I was just going to say what he was saying. Just as pioneer and others will not meet their 2 ch spec w/ all ch. driven, H/K will exceed their all ch. driven spec, when driving only 2 ch. Not a huge difference, but worth mentioning for the purpose of understanding.

no easy answer, because your approach is well...., sorry, but wrong The sound you'll get from any adequately powered, properly configured receiver is gong to pretty much sound the same. What will effect the qualty of the sound most is the acoustics of your room, speaker placement, and the...

Well which is it Mike, easy for a beginner or not hard for someone with experience? An analog connection is more along the lines of a typical connection, such as a VCR etc. If you were hooking up a SpDIF connection to the front of a computer, then I would assume you were using a high dollar...

Many of the infinifilm marked dvds also have excellent quality

7.1 discrete, not yet, but soon? The DVD, Seven, has a version which is DTS 6.1 discrete, just to name another. To the best of my knowledge their are no titles with 6.1 discrete channels in Dolby, I may be wrong, but I believe Dolby 5.1 EX is 6.1 matrixed. I beleive DTS is the only one to have...

easiest method While admitedly this is not the highest quality option, it is certainly the easiest. Using a 1/8" pin to Left (White) and Right (Red) Strero RCA cable, (available at walmart, radio shack etc.) Connect the 1/8" pin to the speaker out of you computer, and connect to the red white...

value brands You've already been given some pretty good advice. Some brands worth investigating based on my own resesarch and personal listening experience for high value to price ratios. Athena, Boston, psb, and BIC America, and Lower end Klipsh and Paradigm models. Let your ears make the...

X-men Legends is 720p capable. I'm sure there are other HD capable games not on your list as well, so those reading this don't get that impression.

the matrix While I can understand why people might not like the The Matrix, I feel it is an important film historically speaking. Much lkie Star Wars, it introduced many new things to film that had never been done before. Think of how many movies were influenced by techniques used in each of...

spdif Use the spdif (difgital) out from the soundcard. You can use the cable you are using now by just connecting 1/8" pin to the spdif out, and connecting the white cable to an available digital coax on your receiver (you won't use the red). Once you've done that you'll need make sure that the...

dumb or ignorant? Maybe you should get caught and go to jail for wasting a lifetime's supply of oxygen. What does this thread have to do with pirating music or movies? If you want someone to get hauled off to the pin for discussing this, at least go to a thread where something of this nature...

Pluge I have question for clint about the DVE disc. I've read the DVE write up and have a question about the pluge patterns. You said something about it including a third bar where the first VE on the first DVD only used two bars. Using the older VE version I can calibrate my TV to not bloom...