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Whoops! My Bad! (See, I am more than capable of showing my idiocy - I read "component" but just took that as meaning "component system vs, "Home Theater System" (HTPC, I read as a typo - meaning "Home Theatre Package Cystem" ignoring the PC as obviously meaning "Personal Computer"! (Um, it does...

Daniel, I'm new here and making new discoveries every day, but I was around for the advent of Surround Sound in the home and last year put together an "under $20,000" home theatre system that I feel is just terrific BUT I've also recently installed a bedroom "system" with a great, but not...

Hmm - I'm a little confused but... ...I've tried the D-VHS out on both TV's (a little more complicated configuration using the Sony, as I pass the component signal back through the SIR-T165 and optical through my receiver. The simplest wiring is using the bedroom TV, though, as the HDTV...

In re the crippled features of new DVR devices - I WAS mistaken about the source, but the article can be found at the Wired website. And I was wrong about the 350 gig capacity - the article states 250.

Adam- I looked at the Philips 30pw850h, but went with the Samsung TSN3084WHD from Best Buy which - much to my surprise - arrived with a fully functional DVI port and a number of other ports that were not listed on either the Best Buy or Samsung websites. The manual, however, available at...

Ken- Oh, man - I fit that criteria! 5 Mac's, one being a G5 with a terabyte of HD storage, and the older G4 with 700 gigs! I took a peek at the site and am returning shortly. This could be insanely great!

Chris- OK, the bad news first: I'm a Macintosh user so I assume that my options would be limited (severely, if not completely). The good news is that two of my Mac's have Apple Cinema Display LCD monitors - one 20" and one 23" which, according to Apple spec's, have 1680 x 1050 and 1920 x...

Robert- In re the "crippled" HDTV recorders... hold on a minute... nope, can't find it. I THINK I read the article in the past 7 days and I THOUGHT it was in USA Today, but a search at their site using "HDTV recorder" doesn't bring up anything. The article mentioned a number of manufactures...

John (& Chris)- 1. Thanks for the info on the tapes - I bought 5 from Crutchfield (and although I'm a committed customer, I NEVER buy recording media from them because I USUALLY know that I can find it less expensively elsewhere - in this case, I just ordered the tapes along with the JVC unit...

Adam- As I understand it (after plodding through "Digital Television Fundamentals" it is, theoretically, at least, possible to record an HDTV signal to a computer hard drive - but you wouldn't be able to view the recording as HDTV on your monitor and the manner in which you would be able to...

OK - first an admission: for several months I did purchase a couple of different home theater magazines but I could never find one that didn't seem to be more or less written for the yacht club crowd than for someone like myself - unwilling to take out a second mortgage to enjoy home theater...

Bill- I suspect that that might be the case... while the model number and serial number are conveniently located on the side of the set (odd, but convenient) I'm physically unable to move the set to see if I can find a date of manufacture. I've a friend coming over this weekend to put the...

Ted- I am really curious about which Samsung DVD player you have! I'm going to try to make a decision by this weekend about whether or not I'm going to keep this DVD/receiver combo (I'm just so darned pleased with the Samsung TV set - and even the OTA HDTV signals that I'm able to receive)...

John- Thanks for your offer - I just ordered Digital Television Fundamentals from Amazon - it looks as if (judging by the table of contents and a few quick searches of the text) that it may be exactly what I'm looking for, and although it looks to be a textbook - and a 4 year old textbook at...

Now - with the surprise that my Samsung TSN3084WHD does have a DVI input, I've been interested in the Samsung DVD-HD931... (I mean how many DVD players does one TV need? I have two now, but that DVI port is just crying out for some... INPUT!!). I have also been grossly displeased with the...

I have the Denon AVR-4802R receiver and Denon DVD-2900 DVD player and have been extraordinarily pleased with the quality of Denon products - I had never owned any but my Crutchfield 'advisor' made the recommendations, they were in my price range and I've been pleased not only with the quality...

Hmm - I tried that last night on my Sony KV-40XBR800 - top and bottom bars unaffected... pitch black. But I still don't understand exactly what that means! But - Lord, this is a difficult confession to make: I'm a bright man who dealt with resolution and color fidelity in the digital...

I received a reply from Samsung today saying that they would be updating their website to reflect the changes made to the TSN3084WHD during production. (Also, of some note, if you're interested in this set - Amazon has the manual available for download in pdf format and, yes, it's the same...

I know that there is a similar 30" Samsung model - the TXN3071WHF - and, indeed, the photos of the input/output's are exactly the same (except one seems to have a darker grey appearance). And, yes, the digital audio output works wonderfully - as I was flipping around OTA HDTV programming last...

One other thing... I just went to the Best Buy website and took a look at the port photo (I didn't know that the photo was there - I always check out rear views of Crutchfield's website, but didn't know that there were alternate views on the BB site). Anyway, the photo of the various ports...

You know - you may be right... I was under the impression that this was actually an "older" model for a number of reasons: 1) because of the Samsung model numbering scheme; 2) because it seemed to be available ONLY from the Best Buy website and was discounted, that it was likely an...

I took delivery of a Samsung TSN3084WHD - the mid-range 30" widescreen model with the built-in HD tuner. I bought this particular model because Consumer Reports gave a sister model a good review and because it had the built-in HD tuner. What it DIDN'T include - according to all descriptions...

Jack- Thanks so much for your answer! The Samsung TSN3084WHD was delivered about an hour and 1/2 ago and I've been able to put it through it's paces with HDTV signals and DVD's and am - thus far - very pleased with the picture (it lacks the fine tuning controls available on my Sony...

OK... I have a Sony KV-40XBR800 and the only true HDTV that I receive on it is via an HDTV cable box - 8 channels in total. I've had the set for a year now and I've been very pleased with it but I have no idea what its native resolution is so I have no idea if the letterboxed HDTV image that...