Recent content by shankar

If you are going indoors... You may want to give this Terk or sliver sensor a try. I have the silver sensor INDOOR in the basement !! and can pick up stations from 70 miles away if properly oriented.. I don't think the RS DBT is available anymore. Don't fall into the "specialized" HDTV antenna...

After reading this post, I went home and set it up. I have a passive Optimus sub and a 11 year old Technics SA-GX35 prologic reciever. My current reciever is a Pioneer 511. I took the sub out from the pioneer using a Y adaptor. I then connected an audio patch cable (both channels) to the Y...

robertLP, Pl. check in Initial settings: DTS Out is set to DTS Linear PCM Out set to Down sampling off and most of all Audio Out put set to: 5.1 channel. I also have connected all 5.1 channels plus a digital coax. My pioneer reciever (VSx D511) has this "signa select" button...

The silver sensor from Sears or circuit city. $39.

I bought the RCU810 remote by RCA for $39. This is an integral part of my HT now. My whole family loves it. The 5 year old can navigate using this. It has all the features that you are seeking and more. Read my review at epinions.com here Cheers.

With most TV shows using dolby prologic, I do get sound from the rear speaker. I used to get sound from the rear speakers with my old dolby prologic reciever. This experience is now enhanced with the DPLII movie or music mode. I have watched football, movies, kids cartoons, sitcoms etc and all...

I think not. When you say 4:3 letterbox, the DVD player usually down converts the signals. You may lose many scan lines in this process. Hence you are not getting a true progressive scan. You may also be "helped" by the fact that the TV is small. The effects of artifacts are usually seen on big...

I have a SD2109 and a SD3755. I'm extremely happy with both. I play a lot of allegedly pirated DVD rentals of Indian movies and the players tend to skip sometimes, but that I attribute to the DVD itself, not the player. I have had no problem with any of the problem movies discussed in the...

Jason, If you bought your DVD player anytime recently, I'm almost certain that it'll have component video outputs. I bought the basic Toshiba DVD player 3 years ago and even it has those. I checked the Sony site and their basic DVD player NS300B has the component video outs. Check it out. If...

What you have is called a composite video connection in which all of the video informations (chroma, luminescence...) are sent by that one RCA cable. It is by definition the most inaccurate connection. The next-best is S-video. This cable will have ends that look like the cable you use in your...

I have balanced my speakers with AVIA to read 75dB on the RS SPL meter. I recently got a DVD that had the THX optimode. I wanted to try it for fun and had the following problems.[list=1]The speaker levels were not at 75dB when playing with the same volume level as it was when balancing with...

Hello all, May be this was discussed before. I have seen it repeatedly here that your speakers should be balanced so that the SPL meter reads 85dB while the master volume control reads 00dB on the reciever. This is the so called "reference" level. AVIA disk says that this will be too loud...

Hi. I had the house wired during construction for my HT. They used 16 gage wires in the wall and terminated them with binding posts for the front soundstage. I currently use 16 AWG spekaer wire to connect all my speakers. I have read so much about the "necessity" to use 12 AWG cables for...

This DVD Doctor is demo'd and sold in Best Buy.