Recent content by EricTut

Er... not BNC. F connector- standard cable ends. I am a PC guy, so I wa thinking of the old school cable connectors back in the day when ethernet went over em. Oops! Eric

Hi all- Rewiring my system to make ready for a Tivo shortly. I just ran 2 coax runs that will be home runs from the dish (actually, dish - multi switch - ~60' run) and I was thinking about terminating those 2 runs into a wall plate, then having some jumpers go from there to my Tivo. Is...

Thanks for asking Steve- Dont know why I didnt think to post mod number... sorry bout that. Model KV-35s40 Manufactured Dec. '98 Sometimes it does flisker before the tube goes out, sometimes it just goes out. No blinking though. And it usually just goes. If we "whack it" a bit, or just...

Hey gang- I have an old 35" Sony TV. Its the series that came before the XBR and Wega stuff... Piano black case, flat glass top to bottom, but curves left to right. Anyhow, it has had this wonderful trait the past few years; it will occasionally stop firing the tube. When I had sound...

Hi All- So my wife starts going off on DVDs the other day. We rent a movie, and its forcing us to watch a bunch of crummy trailers we didnt care about. Wont let me go to the menu, or skip the stuff. The evil X shows me the DVD wont allow it! And so my Wife starts tearing into the DVDs and how...

Brian- I just picked myself up an Onkyo factory refurbed 701, and I couldnt be happier. Its a great changer, I got mine for around 115 off ecost.com Good luck Eric

Cool. Thanks Vince/John. Guess it would be nice to have a center rear speaker then. Ah, someday. E

Hey Jeff- Thanks a ton. Both the DVD player and the reciever state that the input is DD3/2.1 To clarify the test tone thing- I am doing the THX audio test, which is on both my Episode2 SW DVD and Finding Nemo. All of the forward tones (center, FL, FR, sub) play fine. Now the THX...

Hey guys- I figured I would leave out some key info. Sorry about that! DVD to reciever is optical cable. Now, I am getting digital sound on the system. It just says its dolby digital 3/2.1 - And I thought I should say 5.1 - I have another DVD I could try. My amp does both DD and DTS...

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Hi Guys- I need some reassurance on my setup. I had an old fisher dvd player that finally just gave out. I got myself a new onkyo 6 disc changer, the 701, to go with my 601 reciever. (also have the 5.1 onkyo speaker package, the ht-500) So I finally have 5.1 sound! Yay! Except, my...

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KellyR, great question. I would like to add another. On the topic of refubed eq, what do you guys think? I want to buy a DVD changer that matches my system, for remote matching, and new its like $350. Refurbed, $120. That is in my price range. Its the onkyo 701, 6 disc changer. Is refurbed...

Hey Ted- yeah, most DVDs work fine. I have had scratched DVDs not play before, but they act differently than this. The bad boys 2 dvd was very very new. Some DVDs have the region encoding on em, some dont. Star Wars Episode 2- doesnt have it. Plays fine. I am not in a great financial...

Hi all- Okay, so I got an old (1999) Fisher brand DVD player. Yeah, its cheap. I got it from a friend for free, so its been acceptable until recently. One time a while back, I think it was some Adam Sandler film, and the DVD wouldnt play. Complained about me trying to play a region 1 disc...