Recent content by Adam.Heckman

Hello all: It's been years since I've needed to buy HT speakers. However, my wife and I are getting our first house and I'll need to upgrade, seeing as our new living room is very long and narrow and we must mount our LCD on the wall. This means that we must also mount our speakers on the...

I picked one up at 7:15 this morning. I'm going to sell my Xbox360 HD-DVD player for (hopefully) $100. Now I'll be at a wash money wise and be left with a better and quieter HD-DVD player + 5 free movies whenever Toshiba decides to mail them out. Good deal for me!!!

Thanks, I appreciate the help.

Right now we have a 'media computer' hooked up to our HDTV. This is not a Media Center Edition pc however. We're just running XP home. I am thinking of upgrading to Vista on just our media computer. I know that Vista is/has MCE. I know that MCE can work with a remote. Here's my question...

I have tried Windows Media Encoder and no matter what settings I tried, it still errored out on me. I'll try the Movie Maker next. Thanks for all of the advice.

I have a bunch of AVIs that I would like to convert to WMV format and was wondering what the best software was for such a task. They original AVIs are in 16:9 and I would like to keep it that way in WMV. The reason for conversion is that my Xbox360 is only recognizing WMV files (I have XP not...

On Saturday I found what I think was the only Vision:M in the state being sold at a brick and mortar store. I've been abusing it ever since. Here are my thoughts: The video playback and quaility are the best I've seen. A few of my coworkers have 5g ipods so I've seen many of them, and the...

Not too against spending 'some' cash. If I could do the apple thing, I would spend a buck or two for an episode of a tv show... but I don't know of any other venue where I can do that. EDIT: or, if somebody can suggest a free conversion software to change the video format of apples stuff...

I just purchased a Creative Zen Vision:M (wasn't easy to find one at a B&M!!). Anyways, I'm looking for video to show off the unit. The only kind it can't play or convert is Quicktime (so the apple stuff is out!). Are there any legal places on the web where I can download good quality video...

Nothing beats venison jerky. Used to hunt when I was younger and always got half a hind made into jerky by our local butcher. About 50 times better than any store bought beef jerky and also healthier. Anyone else out there know the sweet pleasure of dried deer meat (especially if it's your...

True, but in most states when there's a citizens arrest the person that detains the shoplifter must announce it then show up at the arrainment and act just as the cop that arrested somebody would. And, you can't just arrest people on a whim. Because you're acting like a cop, you too can be...

I'm going to disagree. This is all UNLESS they actually watch you steal something. They can ask for you to hand over your bags for a search, however, if you do not agree to the search, they can not forcably make you had over YOUR bag. That is called stealing. What they can do is this...

In order for loss prevention associates to stop a patron they must see you take something, follow you (not losing you for a moment) and watch you walk out the door with it. Now, they can do that with cameras too, and that makes it easier to prosecute. Now, if they fail to meet those...

New to the thread, I just read it all this morning. I watched the pilot(s) on their 'encore' showing and DVRed eppy #3 and watched it last night. First off, I'm into it, it's pretty cool (you're right, as long as you can suspend some logical thinking). I have two questions: 1) Can...

Well, that's the info I was looking for! Thanks for that, I guess I'll be looking for used copies locally or on ebay. Thanks again for the responses.