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Price lowered before it goes to E-bay.

Great condition preprocessor, comes with original remote. Asking $275 plus shipping. Trades for 2ch preamp considered also, or Bluray player (PS3 or standalone). Cheap way to upgrade into separates from a receiver/amplifier combo. The only negative I can think of is that it lacks 5.1 channel...

I see you are getting to the good ones already! Lagavulin 18y old is one of the my favourites, if not THE favourite. If you like Lagavulin, then Talisker is another to try out. Not as good IMHO but considerably less per bottle than the 16y old Lagavulin (I don't think 18y is available anymore)...

Sanyo PLV-Z2000 is a 1080p projector and has manufacturers rebates for $600. Brings it down to around $1700 shipped depending on where you shop. I'm torn between it and Epson 1080UB for $1000 more. I'd prefer the Epson for its brightness and black levels but spending $1k extra is a hard...

Someone has to do it, unless you have a player that outputs 1080p24 and a TV that accepts 1080p24. Even then the TV needs to convert it to 1080p60. Home Theater: 1080i v. 1080p Even if there are errors in the deinterlacing process, it certainly is better than scaling down to 720p and then...

With what have you tested this? I still don't see 1080i being worse than having to downscale to 720p. The difference between 1080i signal and 1080p signal should be very minimal, producing almost identical picture when deinterlaced. They both (1080i60 and 1080p60) contain the same amount of...

Like said, try both and see which you like better. I would always output the players native resolution is possible though, if the TV is not of one of the players available resolutions. You don't want to scale more than necessary. TV being 768, output to 720p results in this kind of event...

What's the problem with XBox sending 1080i? Does it not do it correctly? Correct 1080i signal to 1080p display is practically the same as 1080p signal to 1080p TV. Sorry if that's OT but I just wanted to know if the XBox sends the 1080i differently over component from the 1080i HD-DVD players...

Ours is now 6 months. Top 5% in height but thankfully not in weight. Born with full head of hair and has had his hair cut 3 times already. I'm just hoping he doesn't use up all his hair prematurely like grandpa did (getting bald now at 50, used it all on an afro back in the 70's :))

Plenty of those around, I paid $2300 for a 61" 1080p and the prices have gone down ever since.

Very true but then again, there are people who buy (or bought) a much more expensive SD-DVD since it had a "much" better processor in it. I know there is a difference in PQ between different DVD players but man, talk about a small difference in comparison to SD vs. HD.

Most of them still have 32" CRT's. In fact the room I'm in has 42" LCD in the living area and the bedroom set is still 32" 4:3. I don't blame those with a small set for not getting into HD. For me HD is worth it, I have two 61" 1080p sets at home plus a 116" 720p FP (which will be replaced by...

Some of us like the driving enjoyment, for us it's not about showing off. Some people here like more to collect movies than to watch them. Personal preference. I like my cars and I like to watch my movies in HD. I'm on the road now and my hotel room has this small LG LCD (I'm guessing 720p...

Well, if you don't have a good display I can understand the unwillingness to go HD.

Do you also fail to see why driving a Ferrari is much more fun than driving a Lada?

That's not totally correct. Studios are pushing for "better" copy protection so they will gladly stop producing DVD's when they can.

For me the move from VHS to DVD was more of a convenience thing, didn't have to rewind the tape anymore. I'm not a person who watches extras or certain scenes over and over so even that wasn't that big of a deal. PQ improvement, yes it was there but I didn't really pay attention to it as it...

Split by showing half of picture in HD and half in SD? Not full picture in 1/4 of the screen. Ok, that would show the difference.

Paul, good questions. I think you're after the fact that some people consider remastered or superbit releases worth doubledipping because the picture is "much" better but somehow don't seem to consider the difference between SD and HD significant enough To those without a HD player: Do you...

Once hardware market gets past a critical point, studios will start phasing out SD-DVD. I think the critical point will become at sub-$100 price for hardware. It will first boost HW sales on those with HD displays that do care about quality at least a little bit, then with those whose player...

Average joe doesn't also care what the format is, so when the prices come down and all you have available is HD-DVD or BR player, that's what he will buy. When all that's available is HD-DVD or BR disc, that's what he will buy. It is obvious where the studios want to move to, and it's HD that...

I don't really expect both to survive, I'm just saying the competition is good at this point when they are fighting on which one is to become the next standard. I'd rather have two systems telling us why they should be the one, instead of one declaring here it is, take it or leave it (and at...

If the cost is $1-2 to watch it then why not, but $4-5 or more is too much for something you can only view once. The worry I have with downloads is selection, availability (can I copy them to my laptop to view on business trips?) and most of all quality. I fear they will be at the same awful...

I don't get it. Moving from VHS to DVD was not progress? From SD-DVD to HD is progress and there has always been competing formats; VHS/Beta-Max, DVD/Divix. Competition is always good for the consumers. You might not think it now but the end result will be.

It's progress, not ridiculous. If it didn't happen, we'd be still watching VHS at home.

~30GB download per film, to each household individually. Even with proxies that's a lot of traffic and cost at this point would be quite high. Then you'd have to count in the households that do not have the luxury of fibre optics (I don't see regular cable and DSL as realistic networks to carry...

Most don't but there are some that do. The benefits of upscaling are noticeable but very minimal compared to the jump from (upscaled) SD to HD.

Better, no. HD-DVD releases seem to have better PQ when compared with HD-A1 and PS3.

I don't buy movies so I only invest in players. I rent the regular titles and only buy a few selected movies. If my habit was to buy I think I'd watch more HD from satellite and leave the HD disc formats alone for now.

Well, now that the PS3 60GB is available under $400 I jumped on the BR wagon as well. Having both HD-DVD and BR on the house so format war is of no issue to me. And since the PS3 is also a wireless media player, a game console, I think I'm getting my moneys worth. I just hope the overheating...