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  1. Terrence B

    Great article on all the post format war doomsaying...

    So to remedy the lack of titles issue what do you suggest the studios do, flood the market with hundreds of titles, too many to chose from, and just create more confusion? That arguement does not make sense to me. I do not expect anyone to believe that Bluray after two years should have as many...
  2. Terrence B

    Poor sound quality in Transformers HD DVD.

    I have to agree with Jeff. While that scene is very powerful, it does not compare to the last battle scene. If you center speaker is bottoming out, you should raise the crossover point higher. If you think your mains cannot playback the deep bass in the soundtrack, you should raise the...
  3. Terrence B

    Poor sound quality in Transformers HD DVD.

    I have 1/3 octave RTA connected to each of my main channels, and a 1/6 octave on connected to my LFE for review purposes. What I found with Transformers is that they mixed a great majority of the bass into the main channels, and into the LFE at a much lower level. The bass mixed into the mains...
  4. Terrence B

    HD-DVD Player Approaching Sub-$200!!

    Get it for the bedroom, I believe lots of folks have. Part of the problem with HD DVD is folks are replacing earlier models, or adding second ones to the household. This explains why software sales are not growing(bad titles is another reason). They have the cheap players, but they need more...
  5. Terrence B

    HD DVD Outpacing All Next-Gen Formats in Sales Growth

    They have a smack down section at Hidefdigest. Its a joke, a really bad joke at that. It won't work here, you guys are to controlled! LOL
  6. Terrence B

    HDi and HD-DVD Live demonstration for Bill Hunt

    I happen to agree with him not because of his choice of blu-ray, but because it makes sense to me. I know some have so much emotional investment in both formats that they cannot reason with his logic, but that is not me. His points make good sense, and it appears that he has information we don't...
  7. Terrence B

    TOSHIBA HD-A1 JUNK!

    I am taking a balanced stand, I do not believe in papering over problems. I never said I didn't like MY player. It has issues on occasion, but I am not using it at nearly the level I was since getting a PS3.
  8. Terrence B

    TOSHIBA HD-A1 JUNK!

    You cannot say most people have had a positive experience with the A1 no more than I can say that everyone has had a poor experience with one. There are probably quite a few people who had problems, didn't say anything, and just returned the player as defective. Just like there are people who...
  9. Terrence B

    TOSHIBA HD-A1 JUNK!

    Here is how you notice. When someone says my A1 is a fine player, they are only speaking for their own personal experience. When one says the A1 is a fine player, and attempts to stretch that accross all A1's, that person has his head in the sand. A fine player does not have the quality control...
  10. Terrence B

    TOSHIBA HD-A1 JUNK!

    I didn't say you stated anything. I said it confirms that quality control on this player is poor. Just like you have gotten favorable reviews, I have also read reviews on this player that were not so favorable. Terry Paulins comments in Widescreen review on the XA-1 were not exactly positive...
  11. Terrence B

    TOSHIBA HD-A1 JUNK!

    Chris, Then the only thing that you have confirmed in your post is that quality control on this player sucked big time. You have some that are working great so says the owners, other that suck, and other owners that have stucked their heads in the sand and are in denial about the problems on...
  12. Terrence B

    TOSHIBA HD-A1 JUNK!

    Steve, I am sorry but that just doesn't make any sense at all. You do not just toss something because it operates poorly, you make the manufacturer accountable for the crap they put out. This is a one year old player, not five or ten years old. With you logic we will have our landfills filled to...
  13. Terrence B

    Rumor mill HD DVD update

    I feel the same way. As Ron P put it, more money for blu-ray releases, and there are plenty I am interested in.
  14. Terrence B

    Standalone players: HD-DVD leads by 4:1

    Mark, standalones may be the domain of HD DVD, but for blu-ray there is more than one way to get blu-ray player. When we speak of player sales, we must speak of ALL players with built in drives for the respected formats. Anything less than that would be spin, half truth, and only designed to...
  15. Terrence B

    Amazed at the bitterness...

    You and me both LOL
  16. Terrence B

    Standalone players: HD-DVD leads by 4:1

    I don't think it will be HD DVD because there is nothing HD DVD is doing that would make a studio change sides or go neutral. Disc wise blu-ray continues to out sell HD DVD, and as long as that goes on, I can see no movement. If HD DVD wants to succeed, they are going to have to break out of...
  17. Terrence B

    Walmart orders 2 million $299 HD DVD players, in stores soon!

    An inquiry is not exactly a deal. So its false. No one has signed a contract, so its false. No order was taken, so its false. Hedging, negotiations, inquiries does not exactly equal to 2 million $299 HD DVD players on order, so its false.
  18. Terrence B

    Walmart orders 2 million $299 HD DVD players, in stores soon!

    Well it turns out that the whole thing was false. I am not surprised. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2122715,00.asp I guess this is what people get for passing on rumors that originate from the often contentous and wrong AVSforum
  19. Terrence B

    Standalone players: HD-DVD leads by 4:1

    First when we talk about hardware sales, you cannot isolate to tilt the numbers. Hardware means ALL hardware that can play the discs, not just one kind of hardware. That is very deceptive. When you look at OVERALL sales of hardware which is what the gage should be, Blu-ray has a huge sales...
  20. Terrence B

    Universal VP predicts Blu-ray sales lead to continue

    Bob, Some of us just don't care about the extra features. We have had extra features on DVD for years, I didn't watch them. I have a HD DVD player with all of what you call next generation interactive features, I don't watch them. And when my PS3 gets advance interactive features, I won't watch...
  21. Terrence B

    Universal VP predicts Blu-ray sales lead to continue

    Disney is as much a copy protection studio as Fox. I seriously doubt that they will go neutral. If our last little Disney employee magazine is any indication, Disney is very excited about blu-ray, and that enthusiasm doesn't seem to be waning one bit.
  22. Terrence B

    Walmart orders 2 million $299 HD DVD players, in stores soon!

    Man do I agree. This is why I didn't want joesixpack to even buy into either HD on disc format. Its seems at that point we have to fight to keep the format true to its film counterpart.
  23. Terrence B

    Samsung announces combo player

    If it costs under 1K, I will be really surprised. If it is 1K and over, its an irrelevant product as no one but the brave at heart is willing to pay that kind of money for players on either format. Especially with the chorus of "cheaper players, cheaper players".
  24. Terrence B

    Multiple Analog Switcher

    I was looking for exactly the same thing, but I could not find it. I just ended up buying a new receiver instead. It seems to me that is the only way to go if you want to hook up both formats to a single receiver. They just don't seem to make switchers that include 2 5.1 analog in's, and one...
  25. Terrence B

    300 HD-DVD titles out this year.

    I have made the decision to use my A1 as a upconverting DVD player only, and am seriously looking into buying a PS3. There are just too many movies on Blu-ray I am interested in upgrading to, and more on the way. When I look at HD DVD release schedule into the summer, there is only about 4...
  26. Terrence B

    Has anyone ever used any formula to build HT Room?

    Ricardo, These kind of acoustical modeling software is not very reliable. Its calculations are built upon a perfectly rectanglar room, with smooth side walls and ceiling. If you have any unique features such as rounded corners and irregular shapes in your room, then this software can't help...
  27. Terrence B

    effectiveness of soundproofing construction

    I have found that for my setups, a person could be in the dedicated mixing/music room playing back music at high levels, and another could be in the mixing/screening room next door with a movie at reference levels, and the two never interfere with each other. Once you close the door to each...
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