Recent content by JeremyErwin

]Probably not HD-- the few titles I glanced at were about a gigabyte. www.blockbuster.com/download

the 705 also has preouts-- good for upgradability. Select the 705 and 606 and hit "Compare"

I found it overcompressed and painful to listen to.

Now, I'm not really a fan of westerns, but that's beside the point. Here, the author is merely reflecting on a certain staleness and unoriginality. Describing a genre as "just like a western, but..." is an open invitation to laziness on the part of the writers After all, good Westerns aren't...

Apparently, the moral of this little fable is that most, if not all technical support issues will resolve themselves unexpectedly. Check to see that the audio is in fact digital surround, and not just stereo.

I've noticed that many of the cop shows tend to treat Private Investigators as dilettantes, failed cops, and obstructionists. Homicide and NCIS for instance. Patricia Cornwell has been quoted as saying she doesn't write "mysteries", she writes "crime novels." Personally, I think Cornwall's a...

Have you listened to any of these? What are you planning on listening to? And can your amplifier handle the load?

Not unless they are very long--or you see sparkles.

Well... An good display may already use 10 or 12 bits internally. It makes gamma adjustments that more precise. Or it may be used to good effect in the scalar. Similarly, an outboard video processor may use 10 to 12 bits internally. Before HDMI 1.3, the processor would have to truncate...

Hmm. You'd really have to look at the chipset. From what I understand, many video filters use 10 or 12 or 16 bits per pixel, just to minimize roundoff errors-- and cut it back down to 8 bits at the very end. A HDMI 1.3 path would eliminate this step. The wider color gamut, on the other hand...

Connect the cable box's digital audio outut to your Receiver, not to your TV.

Do any of the current scalar chipsets take advantage of deep color?

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According to the comparison chart, the 906, 876, and 875 all have the "DSD/Direct Mode". The 806 and 706 are listed as having DSD support but not "DSD/Direct." I have no idea what this means. ;) Those lesser models don't have Burr Brown DACs, HQV video processing, or Audyssey XT, either. And...