Recent content by TomRS4

I’ll try to answer most of your questions: 1)Your mother’s dish will work fine for receiving Dish’s HDTV signals. (HBO, Showtime, PPV, and demo loop.) 2)The cables from the two dishes need to be combined. A regular old splitter used for cable tv will not work. I do not know what these are...

Don't forget you can also create a line or a point by intersecting a cone with a plane. ------------------ Tempus Fugit

There is a CD of Yes music performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra entitled 'Symphonic Music of Yes' which is encoded with Dolby Surround. The album also includes Steve Howe, Bill Bruford, and Jon Anderson. I don't recommend going out of your way to get this unless you're dying to hear...

Please excuse me if this is a stupid question, but I had no problem getting the OTA digital signals, and it seems strange to me that your 8VSB module is having difficulties: Did you go through the setup and scan for digital channels (the same as analogue channels). It sounds like you antenna...

I am speaking for myself: No AOR = No Sale or Rent.

Hendrik, I never said there weren't some fantastic pictures which were done with an AR of 1.33:1, and when viewing these, or any film for that matter, OAR is best. But, I'm not aware of any film, including the ones on your list that I have actually seen, that would not have been better served...

Scott H, Before I go on let me say that I enjoyed your posts regarding my earlier posts, except for your pointing out my error in the AR of 16:9 TVs. I don't know what I was thinking. Don't I feel like an idiot.

True Lies has been on my 'refuse to purchase' list since it was originally released due to the poor treatment it received. Once a decent transfer is available I'll get a copy. ------------------ Tempus Fugit

Let's assume for the moment that all movies have in fact been panned and scammed for network presentation and for MAR VHS. Some of these same movies have been broadcast and released on VHS in OAR, they do not have to do pan and scam, even though somebody somewhere prefers it. Is there some...