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  1. Mike Capulli

    Mirage or Sapphire?

    Went into the local tweeter today... My budget is around 1000 bucks. Since this is a completely new setup, I want to spend as much as I can on the fronts and then expand from there some day down the road. I took a liking towards the Sapphires, and the Mirages sounded a bit narrow in the demo...
  2. Mike Capulli

    speaker recommendations?

    Im looking to start out with a good set of stereo speakers for my new setup. Then from there I will add center / rears and sub. My budget for these two speakers is from 500 to 1000 bucks. I really want a good set of full range stereo speakers as a good base for a new setup - instead of spending...
  3. Mike Capulli

    Capturing Modes

    Im using a dazzle (crappy I know) to capture from S-Video to Firewire into my PC. The S-Video signal is coming from my HD DirecTV tuner so the picture is as good as S-Video can look. Im recording the Sopranos so the captured image is anamorphic. I plan on "unsqueezing" to 16:9 in the DVD...
  4. Mike Capulli

    Superbowl in HD?

    Who knows what channels the Superbowl will be broadcasted in HD on? Im sure I can pick it up OTA on CBS, however Im not setup with an antenna for that yet. Will ESPN HD be covering it or perhaps one of the multiple NFL Network channels (the ones that play the game of the week in HD) on DirecTV?
  5. Mike Capulli

    HELP! chosing dvd player for Hitachi s500

    Recently bought a Hitachi 65s500. Im very pleased with the set aside from my current problem... chosing which route to go with a DVD player. Now the Hitachi can take pretty much any source (480i, 480p, 540p, 720p, 1080i) and scales it up to either 540p or 1080i via its "virtual HD"...
  6. Mike Capulli

    Motion of DVD vs. HDTV

    Ive recently put together my new home theater in a new house that my family has moved to. I have a Hitachi 65S500 with the HD upscaling to 1080i / 540p. My DVD player is an older / cheaper JVC prog scan dvd player and my HD reciever is an RCA RTC100 with a VGA->component converter to the TV...
  7. Mike Capulli

    best towers for 600

    Let me reword this one since I got no responses last time heh... The rest of my system is Klipsch synergy I dont want to spend over 700 for new floorstanding fronts... Should I stick with Klipsch?
  8. Mike Capulli

    Prog-scan DVD players

    What new players are out? Im looking for something that would be good for my sony widescreen hidef display. Can someone point me in the right direction? Perhaps a link or two will do the trick... Also how do home theater PCs perform compared to progressive scan dvd players?
  9. Mike Capulli

    sopranos re-runs?

    My satellite service is on its way up but im not sure if it will be running by Thursday for the Sopranos reruns. Does anybody know when they will be showing Season 4 AFTER this week?
  10. Mike Capulli

    DVD better PQ on PC?

    I just finished watching Ice Age on my HDTV set and came in and popped it into my PC. Howcome a DVD looks better on my PC than my 53in Sony widescreen HDTV set? My PC resolution can't even go as high as my HD set which is 1080 right? Im basically just wondering if my dvd player (JVC...
  11. Mike Capulli

    HDTV info?

    I have a list of questions that have been brewing in my head recently about HDTV. I have a Sony WS HD-Ready set and Im getting ready to purchase a DirecTv HD Reciever for my set. Anyways I know the questions have most likely been asked before and the like, but I haven't had much luck finding...
  12. Mike Capulli

    video capture for DVD

    I have a Sony Digital 8 camera but the DVout port is busted. Its my only guess because I have tried numerous different DV capture cards and on 2 different computers and I cant get any response from the camera. If I purchase an All In Wonder card by ATI, will the captured video be comparable...
  13. Mike Capulli

    Denon DVD-1600 suggestions?

    Im looking into purchasing the Denon DVD-1600. I have read some reviews about it being a great dual purpose device (DVD Video / DVD Audio). Does anybody have any suggestions? I currently have a JVC XV-S62SL DVD Player and I think the video quality could be much better. Also are there better...
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