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Appreciate the equipment tips. I've been thinking about Onkyo. Nice to hear someone endorse them.

Apologies for not replying sooner. your suggestion to ask people in this forum is a good one: I'll remember for when I - one day - use my credit note to buy a new receiver. I think what burns me up the most is that, as a former technical writer of instruction manuals, I know it's not...

Last week I bought a Denon AVR 2809 HDMI receiver to go with my new Bluray player. I got everything wired up correctly and ran the room check and then... I stopped because I couldn't understand what to do next. The manual offered lots of instructions but no explanations. So my question is this...

Thanks for the tip. I'll have a look there.

Solution (I think). I spent some time yesterday playing around with speaker placement - specifically: the two rear centre speakers. I was able to 'push' the dialogue more towards the front and centre by setting the speakers off to the sides rather in the centre. This doesn't explain why I had...

Yes, fully up to date. I've been spending a long time going through the manual and although I've followed the instructions careully, the problem persists.

I own a Panasonic BD55 Bluray player and I use the inbuilt decoders to send the Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD signals to my Yamaha receiver via analog cables. On some discs, the sound is fabulous: voices up front, effects all round (Master & Commander and 300 are good examples). But on other...

I understand HD Ready to mean that the display is capable of 10801 pictures (maximum) while Full HD offers 1080p pictures. An assistant in a shop I use regularly suggested that the difference between 1080i and 1080p was very hard to see on a decent set. With all due respect to the shop, though...

Thank you, Cees. Your answer is very clear, and much appreciated.

Forgive me if this question has been asked/answered elsewhere. If it has, I can't find it. I have a Philips HD Ready LCD. Is it even worth buying an HDDVD or BluRay player? Or do I need a Full HD display to get decent results?

Many thanks for your comments. I bought a really cheap set of component cables a few days later and they worked right off the bat. No prob lem. Whereas the expensive cables I bought *still* won't do it. I guess I expected them to wrok *because* they were expensive! In any case, thanks for...

I'm trying to get component output from my Denon 1920 DVD player (connected to a Philips LCD). I can connect the cables - MIT - but I get no picture beyond odd intermittent flashes of colour and various stripes. The manual isn't much help and I've tried almost every possible setting in the setup...

Again, thanks for the posts. I've found something that might help on Video Help - although it looks a little technical. Christina: I found dvdcodes. Is your player a Denon 2910?

Thanks for the reply but... chipped remote? Afraid this is a new one on me. How would I get hold of one?

I live in Europe and was just about to buy the Denon 2910 when the salesman told me that it wasn't region-free. (About 70% of my DVDs are Region 1.) He then went on to say that manufacturers are now deliberately avoiding this as an option (my old Denon from 1999 came with a region free remote...

I wouldn't know how to begin to adjust my Philips widescreen TV - I live in the Netherlands - but that's old, too and needs upgrading. By DTV, you mean digital TV?

I want to buy a new DVD player and I'm interested in the Malata that DVDBeaver says can handle the problem of overscanning. Does anybody at the forum have opinions on this, or can they recommend other players. (I'm prepared to pay up $300 for a decent player.)