Recent content by govtdog

Jon, First, my name is not Dude. Please call me Jack or if you prefer, Sir. :D Second, I hate BF nonsense too but in this Obama economy, the $700 60" Vizio was all I could afford. AND, it received good reviews at PC Mag, Home Theater and other places to boot! Years before, our current game room...

Let this be a warning to all of you who may be considering buying a sale TV or item at a Walmart Store. I have bought 3 large screen TVs from Walmart over the past 5 years and have spent thousands of dollars more on items ranging from laptops to clothes to food. Before now, I thought highly of...

I too got mine at our local Walmart for $688. I got there 2 hours before they went on sale at 10p and I was 9th in line. The store ended up having 45 of these TVs in stock so I had no problem getting one. Now that I have it, I wish I had more money since I should have bought two of them. First...

I've found that sometimes the HDMI handshake doesn't go very well and alot depends on the HDTV in some cases. It gets even more complicated if you first run the HDMI signal through your receiver prior to forwarding it to your HDTV. Occasionally, I have to reach around the HDTV and unplug and...

One other thought is that the digita HDMI to analog to digital to analog connnection might cause some delay and resultant lip sync problems?