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Michael, If you mounted a florescent light bar to the back of the entertainment center (either along the top bridge, or down low behind what appears to be drawers), that would work fine. You don't want to see the bulb itself, you just don't want complete darkness behind the TV.

There is nothing to guarantee that what Brian has said will be the case for the long term. I agree that this is what is being claimed now, but what is to stop the studios from telling HBO that they will not be given rights to recent releases unless they down-rez the picture on non-copy...

Extended warranties are generally a waste of money. If you are concerned about repair costs and, like most HTF members, you buy a lot of equipment, you might want to consider "self insuring" yourself. Whenever you buy new equipment, find out what the cost of the extended warranty would be, and...

George is correct. While it is unlikely that this "downgrading" of the HD resolution is unlikely for OTA or "non Pay-Per-View" satellite or cable broadcasts, there is absolutely nothing that will prevent HBO, Showtime or any other content provider from activating this option. It is possible...

Before you abandon the 3D mock-up plan, you need to consider whether the height is an issue or not. My house is a Cape Cod, with very steep stairways. The stairs to the second floor are directly over the stairs to the basement, so the ceiling going down the stairs is parallel with the angle of...

You just need two electrical outlets, one near a phone jack. You plug the transmitter into the outlet near the phone line, and the receiver into an outlet near the DirecTV receiver. Plug the phone wire from the STB into the jack on the wireless receiver. This works great for DirecTV...

I have the Radio Shack cables for both my HDTV STB and Progressive scan DVD player. I think they are great and have nothing bad to say about the quality. However, what I have is the Gold AV cables instead of the Component Video Cables. These are the same cables as the component cables except...

PLEASE write down the intial settngs of these controls BEFORE making any adjustments. This way if you completely screw things up, you can set them back to where you started. ------------------

It's about $30 (either $29.95 or $29.99). ------------------

James & Dave, Gary writes hardware reviews for a couple of different magazines as well as being an ISF technician. As a hardware reviewer, Gary had direct contacts with the manufacturers of the hardware that he reviews. Gary performed the calibration on my Toshiba TW56X81, and I can attest...

There is no problem running a signal from a Plus dish to a non-Plus receiver. If you DID try to do this, you would cause problems on the DST-3000 because in order to be able to receive ALL channels from both satellites, you MUST run a line from all 4 LNB's to the multiplexer, which is then...

Circuit City DOES carry the RCA Transcoder. Ask them about model VHDC300. The guy at CC had no idea what I was talking about, but when I gave him the part number, he checked in the computer and found it. Unfortunately, it then took them a half hour to find where they put it.

If you don't need to be able to watch two different channels, you can just buy a Remote Signal Sender Link Removed. This will allow you to change the channel on a receiver from another room. If you try to go the 2 receiver route, aside from the problems that you would have when you...