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  1. Jerry Dreiss

    Best Live Concert That You Saw??

    For big venue, Pink Floyd, Division Bell tour, Foxborough. Prince's Lovesexy was cool too. Small venue: Cowboy Junkies last fall for their Open tour in Somerville. Simply beautiful. Talking Heads in Paris back in '82. I saw the Ramones three times, and always had fun.
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    Motorola DCT5100 How is it?

    I have HBO-HD as well as ABC and NBC HD channels, as well as PBS, which is showing a demo loop from HDnet. Simply awesome. Beautiful picture, great audio, easy to set up, and faster channel changing then my old digital box. In in Boston.
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    Comcast HD questions

    Mike, I just got the HD box from Comcast hooked up Tuesday. Like others have said, it has a component out that feeds into your sets HD component inputs. It also has both types of digital audio out, optical and coax. Comcast Boston offers 5 channels of HD. They are NBC, ABC, HBO, Showtime...
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    Simple HDTV question....Please Help

    Are the video 5/6 ports component, DVI, or VGA? It looks like you set is an HDTV set, and can accept the signal as fed to it by Comcast's newer HDTV cable boxes. If Comcast gives you the Motorola 5100 box you will need an available set of component inputs. It appears that the Moto boxes that...
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    Ebay scam. Beware before bidding for high end receivers

    I wanted to chime in with a caution about the Escrow scams. Legit escrow services are great for big ticket items like cars and plasma TVs. The idea being that the bidder sends their money to the escrow service, and when the product he won on Ebay arrives at his door he informs the service who...
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    Help my new 32" tv has a warped picture!

    My new Loewes Aconda 38" set does the same damn thing, but I haven't had time to try and fix it. I figured it was an issue of the set being the largest direct view tube on the market, the the inherent problems that might cause. Thanks for the info Allan, now I know I'm not crazy and I know what...
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    How do I start a petition for SCTV on DVD?

    Like Ron I remember the Indian Head logo at the start of the pre-NBC half hour episodes. I would tune these episodes in on some obscure UHF station out of NYC, and I was convinced that I had tuned into a station from outer space. It was so unlike anything I had ever seen before that it blew my...
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    renting movies through the mail?

    Netflix rocks! If you watch a lot of DVDs per month, and live fairly close to a distribution center, then Netflix is a great value. Yes, you do loss the experience of wading through a crowded video store hoping to find a movie worth see, then standing in line to be rung up by a bored, surly...
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    HD cable has ruined me

    Eric F, when you said Boston I jumped straight up in my chair, then I saw Natick and slumped back down again. :frowning: I'm in Brighton, and Comcast has just taken over our AT&T service this month. I can't find any useful information on their site about HD cable service, like what channels...
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    Loewe Aconda 38 inch DirectView concerns

    No, you can have both component and RGB at the same time. You can't have component and the S-Video input on Video 1 at the same time. And as for the Aconda having only one set of component inputs, yes, that is a bummer. Their jack pack is a bit dated. Must stem from Germany not having HD...
  11. Jerry Dreiss

    Set-top bizox

    Ummmm.... doesn't the cable company provide the decoder box? You only need to purchase a STB if you want to receive satellite or off the air transmissions. That is unless they have completely changed the rules of cable TV since the last time I looked.
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    XP-50 image appears "lighter" in progressive mode?

    I think I read somewhere that because progessive scan images are pumping more lines of resolution onto the screen at any given moment that is it also pumping more light onto the screen, making the image brighter.
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    OK, OK a widescreen it is, I guess - but which one??

    It took four of us to get a 220 lbs. set up my stairs. That was after we unpacked it from the box on the porch. Good luck with your new set!
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    Picking between JVC 600BK and Panny RP91

    I need to replace a VERY old Toshiba SD-3002 (so old it has no DTS supports!). I want a player that supports zooming for non-anamorphic disks. Sure my set can zoom, but what about subtitles? (I've got a number of HK disks, mostly Jackie Chan stuff.) Well, both the JVC SA600BK Panny RP-91 do...
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    How safe is it to buy a TV through eBay?

    If the seller suggests an escrow service do not use the one he suggests! This is currently the biggest scam on Ebay, sellers setting up professional looking fake escrow services to lull buyers. Millions have been lost. Use only Ebay's service. It's what? $20 or something? MSNBC Article about...
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    Awful Experience with TV Repair

    Who even makes a center channel speaker that's not shielded? I can see a problem if someone uses a speaker that was not designed as a center channel, but don't CC manufacturers know they will be placed right next/on top of TVs?
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    Remotes/Pronto/MX500

    First, I second the recommendation of Bluedo. Very fast and friendly service. And one of the owners hangs out at Remotecentral answering questions. Second, I got the Pronto 1000 a long time ago when it first came out, and love it. It is a very neat remote. But when it came time to get my 70...
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    What is the best giant robt anime on dvd besides Eva?

    I just wish Giant Robo was available in R1.
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    Proper lighting for TV viewing.

    I just set up my Loewes Aconda 38" set last night. Amazing set, but it has a slight curve that reflects glare where ever you sit. (From a lamp by the side of the couch.) I want to mount a small lamp behind the set that will illuminate the room while avoiding any glare on the screen. Isn't...
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    New 530HD...now what?

    They simply call AC-3 Dolby Digital now.
  21. Jerry Dreiss

    Adjusting HD input's overscan on Mits WS-65905?

    Kinda makes you wish for the old days when TV stations broadcasted test patterns in the wee hours. Would a progressive scan DVD player attached to the port your using for the cable box do the trick?
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    why is a ota converter box needed

    Don, that set like most does not have a built in HDTV tuner, which means that if your friend wants to watch the high def programming that will really show the TV off then he will need a set top box. Many network television stations are now broadcasting at least some of their programs in HDTV...
  23. Jerry Dreiss

    tv stand

    A helpful page from the Accessories forum. Links up the wazoo! I went with a Plateau stand that was large enough to fit a 38" 16:9 set, making it 41" wide and 24" deep, not to mention 220 pounds! Those are daunting numbers and it is hard to find a stand that fits them. I'm getting the stand...
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    Help! Trying to get 480p from a progressive DVD player on a Loewe Aconda!

    Darren, in my research on the Aconda 38" set various reviewers still gave the nod to progessive DVD players as being better then the set's excellent deinterlacer. Mostly they were a bit faster and had slightly less artifacts. Of course this all depends on a good player. I'll be (hopefully)...
  25. Jerry Dreiss

    Looking for an HDTV receiver...completely lost!

    You didn't mention which Samsung TV you got, does it have a VGA input? Some STBs still output VGA, so you could look into that. VGA, the forgotten input.
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