Chuck, First, I also highly recommend a Front Projection system, IMHO the reason that RPTVs so dominate the market is that most customers don't even know there is another option, and stores like Best Buy and Circuit City generally don't have any projectors set up to demo, sometimes the only...
Marissa, I have been in the A/V business for the past 15 years and most of the best speakers are ones you will never have heard of. There is more difference in speakers than in any other area of sound reproduction. Some Ideas for speakers are; Energy Paradigm B & W Polk Definitive...
Rob, Although CRT does give a glorious picture, the hassles with it are very large; size, price, calibrations, low light output, etc. that most retailers have opted to sell the Digital projector systems instead. I think if you could see actual sales figures you would see that Digital...
Tom and Gang, I must Apologize for the lack of a Home Theater party today. Some unexpected family stuff came up and the party just went out the window. I would very much like to host a meet, but that will have to wait until I get some additional time. Anybody want to sell a couple of...
I took advantage of the special code on 2/09/03. On 2/10/03 I got the first email confirming my order. On 2/16/03 I got an email approving my membership, on 2/18/03 I got another email saying my DVDs were shipped. On 2/24/03 I got the DVDs, and on 2/21/03, I got an email advertising buy one at...
LaMarcus; In my system I have my DVD running straight to the projector it looks great, it is a high quality DVD, not your average $69 DVD. I also have HDTV from a Hughes DirecTV STB. I did get a IScan DVDO V2 line doubler for LD, VCR and SD DirecTV signals. These lower quality signals looked...
Tom, Had a great time, you have a wonderful family, house and theater. Joanne and I had a great time. Good movie, good time and some new good friends. I plan on hosting next month. I am thinking about doing it the weekend of the 22nd. My schedule in March is pretty tight and am not sure...
Chris, I took advantage of the offer, and just received my copy of Stripes TODAY. It certainly took a long time, my wife just told me in the last week or two that the check we sent was cashed. I hope your DVD is in the mail. Roger Livin Large in Buckley!
Matt, You can certainly get a good picture for about $1500-2000. I have a Sharp XV-DW100U that I bought a couple of years ago. It is a great projector and I was using it for my home theater and was also using it as a Data projector for a class that I teach a couple of times a month. Well, I...
The channels on DirecTV are whatever the network has sent to DirecTV, most today are in stereo. DirecTV even has over 20 channels that broadcast Dolby Digital. Roger
Jeff, I must agree with the other replies, you are using the lowest quality video signal, upgrading to SVid will lead to a tep up in video quality. If you want better quality, have you thought about satellite? DirecTV has significantly better signal quality than digital cable. Also you get...
Steve,
I just wanted to put in my two cents worth;
1. Speakers make more difference than anything. I recommend that people spend 1/3 of their budget on speakers, 1/3 on Video sources and display and the last third on Audio sources and amplification.
2. Make sure to be fair with the Brick...
Count me in. I live in Buckley and have been heavily involved in Audio and Home Theater for the past 25 years. This has included over eight years working in the industry. We just bought a new house this summer and it has a 702 square foot bonus room, that houses my office and "the Rialto"...
Check out the Hughes Platinum HD. Hughes the developer of DirecTV. It has a number of great features;
1 It will decode any OTA HD and roll it right into the guide, so you just change channels to get OTA.
2 It also has the new Advanced Program Guide that goes out 14 days.
3 It comes...