Recent content by Tim Hoover

Just a heads-up: I was out browsing my local BB today and found the Forgetting Sarah Marshall combo pack for $4.99...

I think I'll finally break down and pick up the Avatar 3-disc BD now that the price is slightly more realistic..

Well, now I'm kind of annoyed. The Dark Knight BD is part of Best Buy's Trade & Save program, which would bring the price down to $9.99-$5=$4.99. I paid five dollars more last week. I wonder if they'll give me a price adjustment...

You can mix and match...

I just traded in four old titles from my big stack of DVDs I haven't watched in years and years. I picked up The Dark Knight at $14.99-$5= $9.99, Predators at $19.99-$5=$14.99, Matrix Reloaded at $14.99-$5=$9.99, and Book of Eli at $14.99-$5=$9.99. In response to the questions regarding...

This is an absolutely great thread... I'm not sure where everything is headed because, honestly, I've really removed myself from the HT world the past several years. I would hope that, as others have expressed, we move video towards an experience more like current audio, i.e. inexpensive...

Mike, thanks for the heads-up on the BB Trade & Save program. Amazingly enough, everything went completely smoothly at the store!

I'll only be able to afford the Oppo if one of the company's kind folks sent me one gratis. Until then, I have what I have...

Ed, I certainly appreciate the thought, but the 5.1 direct in on my pre/pro is currently occupied by a Pioneer 563 universal disc player, and that thing definitely stays. I'm not necessarily replacing the Sig 2.0 so fast...after all, it's been in service here for ten years and I'll have a...

Todd, I've done some additional research and I'm thinking that's EXACTLY what the problem is. I swapped for a different BD player today (Sony S370) and still had the problem, even with a different cable. The good news is that I found a workaround on the net that alleviates the problem to almost...

It's definitely an odd problem. The optical cable is the same one I've been using on my regular DVD player for years with no problems. As far as a wrong setting goes, well, that's definitely a possibility. I have DD and DTS set to bitstream which, according to Panny, will convert them down to...

A few days ago, I purchased a Panasonic BD65 Bluray player. Audio is running via the optical out into a Harmon Kardon Signature 2.0 pre/pro, which only supports DD and DTS 5.1. With discs with a DTS audio track, I'm getting a lot of distortion in the center channel on louder dialog passages. Has...

Yes, Jim, I have definitely turned the sharpness way down to alleviate EE symptoms. I've also been testing DVDs that are relatively clean of this. I guess my main gripe is that I expected DVD upconversion to look a bit better than it does, and am wondering if there's something I'm doing wrong...

Hey everyone, I recently delved into the HD arena with a new HDTV and a Panasonic BD65 bluray player. I'm pretty much out of the loop when it comes to HD, so I thought I'd ask for a few setup tips. Bluray discs look great going into the TV at 1080p through HDMI. Regular DVDs look okay, but...

No, Bill, they are definitely white van speakers...can't remember the exact brand name of them, but they were Acoustic-something. At the time, they were one of the more common white van brands. Edit: just Googled and found the brand: Acoustic Response. They were a carpet-covered 3-way...