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    advise on new dvd player(upconverting)

    OPPO makes just about the best upconverting player out there, for the price. Caution on the faroudja chip'd 971 unit, but your panasonic set might not be affected by any macroblocking. Yep, for the money the OPPO is hard to beat. The Sony line of upconverting players are also good value for...
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    Anyone order the Oppo 981 yet?

    OPPO makes some great stuff, no question - with one caveat, and that is with the Faroudja video processing system. It has known macroblocking issues. True Story: As part of a professional calibration being done to my Samsun 42"plasma, I had a brand-new-in-the-box OPPO 971 set up at the same...
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    Okay...question about Oppo vs Denon DVD player here...

    I can't vouch for the DENON, but I CAN tell you that the OPPO doesn't have any better pq than my upconverting Sony player - in fact, the pq is better with the Sony through the hdmi than that OPPO was. I have a Sammy 42 inch plasma and it definitely didn't work too well with the OPPO - I was told...
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    Paint Color Suggestions

    Well, I CAN tell you what Sue and I chose for our room in a house built in 1917: We went with a dead-flat sage for the walls, flat white ceiling, satin cream for the baseboards and window trim and a dark dead-flat olive for accents (stripe within the baseboard. quarter round molding on ceiling...
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    THX 3417, Small but very loud!

    Don't you find the home theatre experience a little "wanting", when viewed on a 27" 4:3 curved screen? Sound is 50% of the equation and by the looks of things (with the exception of the snake's nest of cables) that part looks nailed to the max. Now the only thing left to do to bring the other...
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