Recent content by Chris Muellen

Hello. You should try this site: http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers it has a comprehensive list of DVD players and their compabilities. It has a very powerful search engine for finding what you need. I checked two boxes (DVD changer and DVD-R) and I got 125 hits. It looks like there...

Travis - Check this page at Ars Technica. So far you can lay claim to the fundamentals of a budget box. Asus A7N266-VM motherboard - $70 Athlon XP1700 processor - $51 256MB PC2100 DDR from Crucial - $54 http://arstechnica.com/guide/system/budget.html Best of luck.

I hope D&M maintains the drive for cutting-edge products. Sonicblue produced my two favorite consumer electronics devices; the hard drive-based MP3 player for the car (the Empeg) and the hard drive-based video recorder (ReplayTV). I have followed these two devices since their inception; I...

I thought I would post this here first since I mostly hang out on the HTF although I first got the inclination to research based on a thread on AV Science. SonicBlue will be releasing a new 5000 series with additional features at a reduced price. Magnolia Hi-Fi, a electronics store in the...

Tuesday's All Thing's Considered on NPR had a review of the game. The reviewer acknowledged the game's violence, but found the depth by which you could amuse yourself sublime. A few quotes from the Link Removed: "I remember my first carjacking..." "Those are the moments that gamers live for...

Here is a thread from June 16, 2002 in the same forum section: Home Theater Forum

Try this review from Secrets on the Sony SCD-CE775 CD/SACD player. Link Removed Brand new for under $200.

Regarding the Sonicblue issue, this was announced today. Because Sonicblue won on appeal, they will not have to share customer information with the entertainment industry. Phew.

Mike, Luke and Bill - silver or black? - Chris

Some things are just plain wrong. As part of pre-trial discovery, SonicBlue is required write software that reports "all available information" of their users habits (every show they record, every commercial they skip and every program they send) to the entertiainment industry. The article from...

Many in the home theater world look forward to Secrets of Home Theater's (Link Removed) annual review of DVD players. It compares many important features in a table and then proceeds to list mini-reviews. Highly competent reviewers at this site. The most recent version can be found at: Link...

There are advantages to going with the same speaker all around. Having timbre-matched speakers all around can avoid your system sounding off and really add to the effect of panning across the channels. This can be easily done with Definitive Technology speakers. If you go with self-standing...

YGM - Chris

"Do you want to watch Video Essentials?" This was followed by hours and hours of audio and video calibration. Awesome.

Tom - You may want to check out Xantech (www.xantech.com) for thier IR distriubtion systems. I made my entire home IR friendly with their receivers and connecting blocks and it all works great. Smarthome (www.smarthome.com) resells their products.