If I didn't feel "personally invested" in seasoning my Lodge CI & CS pans (and the Lodge CS pan is an abomination the way it comes from the factory, it's coarser than their CI pans) I'd consider picking up a set of Smithey's (or one of several cheaper Kickstarter alternatives — not as beautiful...
The 1.2 version of the firmware that's floating around the net *has not* fixed the issue. The best I get is a brief flashing of the Toshiba's HD-DVD logo on the screen before it switches back to "no signal detected" screen. I also once saw (just as briefly) a "no disc in tray" message. Also, the...
I didn't have a first DVD. For those who remember this offer, my first purchase was getting 3 for $1 from 800.com and those were the two Terminator movies and Pulp Fiction. Needless to say, all three have been replaced since.
While I agree in general that Fry's staff is for the most part worthless (I've seen one or two exceptions in the 13 years I've been going there), some of the things have changed. If I need to return/exchange, I go there between 9 & 10 in the morning on the way to work and there's almost no line...
I've been off of VCRs for a while now, but if I'm not mistaken, your VCR is supposed to be on channel 3, not 4 if you're using an RF connection from the cable box.
I do it -- mostly in the hopes that Amazon will indeed pass it on to the studios and that something good will come out of it. It's almost never happened that an email from them would tell me something I didn't already know though ;)
All scalers are subject to Garbage In -- Garbage Out rule, but if the signal is OK and looks bad just to inefficiency of built-in scaler, something like iScan products (look here) might help.
It's actually up to the browser as they are displayed correctly on mine -- and I didn't even have to pick the Cyrillic encoding (it's on auto-select and seems to have chosen Western European). The computer has a regular Win2K installed, no funky stuff with setting the locale to be different than US.
Rich, I have an FSR-12 and had experienced the same problem once -- turned out the fuse has blown in the power supply block. There are no seals to break, you just unscrew it, pull it out and check the fuse. If the fuse is good, then I don't know.
The one I was refering to was actually an FP housed in a mirrored cabinet to turn it into an RP. The cabinet was designed for a two-chip FP but I've been told that the three-chip version would work in it, too.