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Brett: I hear you on the Nvidia cards. My HP came with the ATI and so far so good. It also have a separate S/PDIF optical out but I decided to go the one cable route. Looks to me like you have one killer HTPC. Now if I could only get...

For HD playback you are probably going to need at least a dual core CPU with 4G of RAM.

There are many receivers on the market that have multiple HDMI in and many have more than one out. You can even buy complete systems with the speakers included with the receiver. Since you are in an apartment and you don't want a lot of...

Brett: I have an ATI 4350 video card that has an HDMI out on it. I just plug in the HDMI cable to my Pioneer SC 05, use TMT 3.0 in Windows 7 using my HDLS combo Blu-ray / HD DVD drive and have wonderful 7.1 DTS MA and DD with no problem....

I second what Brian has said. I will ask Adam Gregorich (one of the the owners of this site) the name of the guy he used to help set up his HT and will ask a couple of guys that have built separated buildings for their home...

CCFL looks good. For that price I would get it. I don't have any issues with CCFL vs. LED. The only difference being the thickness of the cabinet really. I would take the time to check them both out though and see if the difference in...

Quote: I did watch JJ Abrams Star Trek last night........I liked it.  Though I never knew Spock and Uhura had a thing going ........I'll have to pay closer attention next time I watch the series. In this time line they can pretty much...

Glad to hear that VLC is working great. Just wondering why WMP stopped working. Something in your setup with WMP has the audio turned off because if it where a system audio problem VLC wouldn't work either. I haven't played around with WMP...

Brett: Nice setup. I have the ATI 4350 which has HDMI out on the card. No need to use any type of dongle. I just plug the HDMI cable into my Pioneer SC 05 and then from the Pioneer to my Panasonic plasma and all works as it should. The...

I love the original and agree that this "remake" wasn't a "remake" at all. I agree they could have called it anything else and it probably would have played better. It was all over the place without really allowing you to make sense of why...

I watched all of the Prisoner remake and my major problem with it was it jumped around a lot without really coming to any kind of resolution as to why it all happened. Did the wife dream it all, did 6 make it all up in his mind? It was...

I have gotten Heat, Star Trek, Monsters Inc., Leon, North by Northwest and Love, Actually on Blu recently. They all look and sound phenominal. I cannot pick a favorite as they are all demo quality recordings. I also picked up Star Trek:...

Try downloading a program like VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ and see if you get sound from your DVDs. If not then it is something in your sound card setup that got changed. Parker

Jason: Check outCoby DVD298 for $45 it would hard to beat. Also, on the software side check out AVS4You they have mutiple programs for converting formats. I really like the AVS Video Converter program. The great thing is if you buy one you...

Figures.

I am still going to be watching it and make up my own mind whether it was worth it or not.

This is one that I can hardly wait to get here from Amazon. I am also glad to see that Columbia/Sony continues to provide us with a disc that there is nothing to complain about and allows us to just get down to watching the movie...

Looks interesting. I still say they could take a loaded laptop without the keyboard and screen and make a great HTPC out of it. Give it an i7 chip with 12G of RAM, 5700 ATI with HDMI 1.4, 8 USB 2.0 and Firewire 800. Hook this all up to a...

I got the Zoom Mouse and I guess because I am on the 21.5" screen it didn't seem to make any difference with tracking than without it.

Pick me up a mouse pad while you are there.