Recent content by Andy_Hamric

What do you all make of this? I have the box for digital cable from WideOpenWest in the Detroit area. I get analog cable on it plus the digital OTA broadcaster feeds. Audio sync on the digital (HD) channels ranges from almost perfect (PBS) to off by 1-2 seconds (NBC). Analog cable stations...

A few years ago I got a MD player to record my practice sessions on cello. Of course you know that the quality of the microphone is going to be a big factor in sound quality. Let me make just a couple observations: 1)My Sharp player has a feature that will automatically put track stops in at...

I'm starting to see the Sony 47" wide HDTV monitor RPTV I bought in May now being advertised as "closeout." Maybe not too long for those.

My problem with pixelation occurs on my Sony 47" HDTV monitor, 47WT510 I think is the model. Standard rear projector. NBC is particularly bad, every time the olympic rings logo flashes across between competitors, and every time the camera switches angles, I get pixelation, basically any time...

I recently got a cable box from my cable company to take advantage of the HD local channels. I find that whenever I'm watching the olympics on the HD NBC feed, I find that anything moving quickly across the screen pixelates quite badly. What is the cause of this? I also find sound imbalances...

I have this TV and got the matching stand. I was a bit disappointed that you can't fit more components into the space, but my solution was this: I took out the shelf and put my center channel speaker down there. It's a rather heavy-clunky black box of a speaker, and I'm afraid it would warp the...

After episode 2, I find myself liking the show less. The writing is weak and the characters are cardboard (and the love scenes were pretty sappy) but I'll probably tune in next week just to see if they actually go somewhere. Gosh, it sure seems like things are developing SLOWLY.

X-files meets X-men, excellent characterization. Did it irk anyone at the beginning that the ICBMs were launched when the object was traveling at 3,000 km/sec and 28 minutes out, yet they impacted after about 15 seconds following launch? It seemed to me they would barely be out of the...

Starship Troopers????? That has to be the worst book-to-movie transfer ever. Totally butchered a good yarn by Heinlein. Of course I never read the Lawnmower Man short story by King but I heard it really had virtually nothing to do with the story Stephen King actually published.

Starship Troopers????? That has to be the worst book-to-movie transfer ever. Totally butchered a good yarn by Heinlein. Of course I never read the Lawnmower Man short story by King but I heard it really had virtually nothing to do with the story Stephen King actually published.

I own the 47" version and the manual clearly states that the picture is downconverted. It seems fairly common for TVs to downconvert 720p if it's not native, as in the case of the Sony. Can't comment on picture quality, all I've seen are my DVDs which look great and not-so-hot standard analog...

I own the 47" version and the manual clearly states that the picture is downconverted. It seems fairly common for TVs to downconvert 720p if it's not native, as in the case of the Sony. Can't comment on picture quality, all I've seen are my DVDs which look great and not-so-hot standard analog...

What you are getting over analog cable is the standard definition picture. If you want a Hi-Def picture, you need to have something that's feeding you a Hi-Def picture. An antenna will, and cable will if the cable company is transmitting the HDTV signal on the cable. In the investigating I've...

My setup used to be a 32" TV that came in a a nice wood cabinet... there was enough space on top to have my receiver and DVD stacked on the left side and my center speaker on the right side, on top of the TV. My mains were on either side, so the center was closer to one side than the other. At...

Well, most DVD audio is output digitally (unless it's DVD-Audio), so I think whatever is downstream from the DVD player is going to make a much larger difference than the player itself. Having DTS decoding somewhere would probably be helpful.