Recent content by Chris Brown

Here I have my trusty old X-Fi Titanium HD. I've owned it for about a decade now. It has been a great card for me that entire time. For a long time, I used it in my main computer. A couple of years ago I swapped from using the X-Fi Titanium HD in my main computer to using a regular X-Fi...

I have a Panasonic LX-1000 and an LX-600, both still work great. I still watched my Laserdiscs pretty frequently when DVD was king. I felt that when processed through my HTPC using DScaler before going into my HDTV that the image was pretty darn close to DVD while the audio was clearly...

I think both sides need to give a bit here. How often is he actually using his sub? Is it an all-day, every day sort of thing? Or is it just an occasional evening thing or when he has parties? It's not reasonable to expect to never hear your neighbors, nor is it reasonable to expect to be able...

AC3 is what messed it up really. They could have simply put the AC3 in-place of the PCM tracks but those were the most common tracks used at the time and not everyone even had an AC3 decoder at that point. They actually did this with DTS laserdiscs; there is no PCM on those discs as the DTS...

Are you saying that your player doesn't have a digital output or simply doesn't process the digital sound at all? There are many players without a digital output, but that still process the digital sound. In that case you will usually have more than one set of analog outputs on the back. Yeah...

I have a P2201, which is the same as a P2200 but without the meters on the front. The amp doesn't have built-in bridging. As the manual says, I would need a Splitter Transformer at a minimum. The amp has the ability to reverse polarity on one of the channels but that isn't the only piece of...

I'm looking for something like this: http://sound.westhost.com/project14.htm But I don't have the ability to construct my own circuit boards. I'd like to find somewhere selling one of these pre-assembled. Any ideas? Alternatively this is what my amp's manual says about this: So I guess...

I have a Panasonic LX-1000 that I got a few years ago and has been in my main HT system ever since. Today I was at the flea market and picked up an LX-600 for $15. I tested it and it works great, so i'm pretty happy. The only question that remains is if the LX-600 is better than the LX-1000 (if...

Well I’ve run into a new problem. We just got a new box from comcast today. The problem is that there is only one set of component inputs that supports over 480P and it happens to be the one that is also part of the RGBHV inputs. I would have to go back there and swap the cables every time I...

Yeah, I got 960x540p to work except there is a LOT of overscan whereas at 856x480 there is none at all.

When I checked the interlace box, it set the refresh rate to 30hz automatically

Well today what I did was I took the VGA breakout cable from my 21” computer monitor (replaced it with a regular VGA cable which works fine). I went to radioshack and bought 5 BNC to phono jack converters (at $5 each, sigh) and that gave me the cable I needed. When I first plugged it in, it...

Hello everyone, I’ve been out of the hobby for much of last year due to the fact that my old Mitsubishi RPTV was finally starting to die (Got it in the mid 1980’s, so I can hardly complain). All this changed however when final authorization was given to purchase a new TV. Today we came home with...

Yeah, it's mostly a gaming thing. Multiplayer gaming on the PC has really taken off in the last few years, and some great games have come out. Most people play on the internet, but it really is a totally different experience coming to a Lanparty and being in the same room as the person you are...