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  1. Keith Mickunas

    24: Season Seven

    According to IMDB Jack, Tony and Chloe have been in over 100 episodes, Kim, Bill and Palmer in 70+, and Aaron Pierce in 43. Jack, Tony, Aaron Pierce and Kim :eek: are the only ones listed in every season though, and that makes me scared. Those numbers may not be reliable but it should be a good...
  2. Keith Mickunas

    24: Season Seven

    They specifically said she'd been on the campaign and released damaging stuff about the other candidate. So that means she probably knows a good bit about the people in her mother's administration. While I doubt Ethan was involved, he does differ from the president's views a lot and hasn't...
  3. Keith Mickunas

    24: Season Seven

    The speed and ease at which they invaded the White House was completely ridiculous. This makes all of Jack's speedy drives around LA look reasonable. They spent just a few minutes on the boat, then a few more minutes scuba diving into a tunnel leading directly into the White House. This means...
  4. Keith Mickunas

    So what is a good OTA HD STB these days?

    If you pay in advance you can knock that monthly fee down a good bit. I believe it's about $8 a month if you pay for 3 years up front. I found the box to be so much better than the FIOS PVR that it really is worth it in my opinion. Plus you can swap out the internal drive for more storage.
  5. Keith Mickunas

    Need new amp for passive subs

    Well it'll be in another room, so no big deal there. There's enough other stuff on the rack making noise I doubt it would make a difference.
  6. Keith Mickunas

    Need new amp for passive subs

    I have a pair of SVS 16-46CS+ subs that I've been running off a Samson S1000 amp for the past 5 years. Well tonight I noticed that the amp was indicating the protection circuit was tripped for one of the amps and power is definitely not being sent to the sub. I removed all connections to the amp...
  7. Keith Mickunas

    5% OFF @ Amazon for "Heroes - Season 1 [HD DVD]"

    Thanks guys. I just bought an HD-DVD player so I totally missed out on that deal. Still I went ahead a preordered with the 5% off, and I'm trying out the prime trial offer. That's a nice deal and I might stick with it, I'll just have to preorder more DVDs rather than buying them at the B&Ms like...
  8. Keith Mickunas

    5% OFF @ Amazon for "Heroes - Season 1 [HD DVD]"

    How do we get this 10% on HD-DVD? I just signed up for prime but I don't see a special price for the HD-DVD.
  9. Keith Mickunas

    Paying for a name?

    Rob, on the Rockets I don't think you took into account the package pricing. So it's about $1600 plus maybe $200 in shipping. All Rockets get discounted when you buy more than a pair, and then you pay lower prices for everything in the future. I don't know how that applies to the X line, I...
  10. Keith Mickunas

    Paying for a name?

    AV123 has just announced a sale on systems with RS760's or RS850's for the mains. Perhaps that would be in your price range, especially since right now they are throwing in shipping. Rockets use a similar (maybe even the same) tweeter as the LSi series. However I imagine their crossovers are...
  11. Keith Mickunas

    Need Help With an Equation

    I knew Excel could be set to display numbers in parenthesis when they are negative, but I didn't think it'd interpret them that way, that's not intuitive at all to me, but then I was a math major, I don't do business math much.
  12. Keith Mickunas

    Need Help With an Equation

    This is an odd looking formula, but it's not hard to solve at all. First subtract the two numbers on the right that don't have X from both sides. Then merely divide by -350.45.
  13. Keith Mickunas

    ValueElectronics HTF exclusive sale

    Whoa, I wasn't expecting Saturday delivery. I better send an e-mail regarding my order. Thanks.
  14. Keith Mickunas

    Questions about Toshiba HD-A2 and older equipment

    They've done the XA2, but not the A2. It's unbelievable to me that these players still have pauses on the layer change. I know some manufacturers got rid of those years ago. How can a thousand dollar player be like that? They did say that otherwise the XA2 is an excellent SD player. If the...
  15. Keith Mickunas

    ValueElectronics HTF exclusive sale

    Robert, thanks for the info. What shipment method do you use and how long does it take?
  16. Keith Mickunas

    Questions about Toshiba HD-A2 and older equipment

    I've got a modded XBox for the region free stuff, what little of it I have. Has anyone done a review of how well it does via the component output though? It'll be a long time before I replace my current display so for the time being HDMI is irrelevant to me. I guess the SD performance isn't...
  17. Keith Mickunas

    ValueElectronics HTF exclusive sale

    So what's the turnaround time from these guys like? I can't find anything about shipping on their site. Normally I wouldn't buy from any site that looks like that, but since they seem to be friends of the forum I guess it's worth the risk.
  18. Keith Mickunas

    Questions about Toshiba HD-A2 and older equipment

    Well I can live with that for now. For the time being I'm sticking with my Yammie and I don't want to lose SACD and DVD-Audio so I can't free up the 5.1 input. So there's no reason to buy the more expensive version. I'm tempted by this player because of the deals available now. I'd been...
  19. Keith Mickunas

    Questions about Toshiba HD-A2 and older equipment

    I have an older Mits HD TV without HDMI and my receiver is a Yamaha RX-V1 that also lacks HDMI. How much of the A2 can I actually use? Will I get HD-DVDs in 1080i? What about SD with the newest flash? Also, what do I do with the audio? I currently use a Yamaha DVD player that supports SACD...
  20. Keith Mickunas

    24: Season Six thread

    I thought Logan was dead. She stabbed him and he went into cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital and thus died. Regardless, he's not Jack, so he can't come back from such a serious problem and still matter in this season. With everything else going on there'd be no reason for him to be...
  21. Keith Mickunas

    24: Season Six thread

    Overall I haven't been to disappointed by this season, but last night's episode annoyed me on many fronts. First, I'm tired of the all-knowing Chinese intelligence service. I hate it when the bad guys always know way more about everything than the good guys, it's a gimmick that's used in to many...
  22. Keith Mickunas

    Upgrading to decent quality speaker wire

    Through some fluke the speaker wire may have a break in it somewhere, or perhaps there's a point in there where it's shorted somehow. Do you have a continuity tester? It should be easy enough to determine if the cable is good.
  23. Keith Mickunas

    My Puppy Won't Speak!

    My dog pretty much only barked at strangers, and the mailman of course. At some point we found out we could coax her to do a real funny howl/bark sound. The only annoying thing about her barking was that when she was inside she used a high pitched bark and yet outside she used a normal bark, and...
  24. Keith Mickunas

    I simply changed out a few cables and...

    I used the adapters on my HT system for quite some time, and currently I use something similar for a two-channel system where I also get a ground loop hum in my sub. It's probably not ideal, and my amp in the HT did make some strange clicking noises on occasion that might have been related...
  25. Keith Mickunas

    I simply changed out a few cables and...

    You can use one of those plugs designed to adapt three prongs to two on the sub. Now ideally with those you attach them to a ground, but you can leave that loose. Another thing to try is to route the cable TV through a surge protector. In my setup I ran my FIOS cable through the same surge...
  26. Keith Mickunas

    Blue Angels plane down in SC

    mylan basically has it right. In order to keep their sticks incredibly steady, they have a spring pulling them forward, then they rest their arms on their legs. If they wore the G suit their arms would move. All pilots have to show they can withstand a certain amount of Gs without the suits in...
  27. Keith Mickunas

    Strange noise from my subs - not ground loop

    Well the problem seems to involve the BFD. I'm not sure what it is exactly, but I know it's not in the cable between the BFD and amp. I tried to find a balanced interconnect to use there but no luck yet.
  28. Keith Mickunas

    Strange noise from my subs - not ground loop

    I just finished installing my 12.3 upgrades, and I get a slight noise out of the subs when they are hooked up. It sounds almost like air coming out of a vent. It's very soft, and constant. I have two 16-46CS+ subs hooked to a Samson 1000 amp. I haven't heard this sound before, granted you...
  29. Keith Mickunas

    Questions about SVS Plus 12.3 Upgrade

    I believe the .3 is merely a version. From the description on their website they said the original plus driver had two distinct versions, then they came out with this driver that they offered as an upgrade to owners of the earlier subs.
  30. Keith Mickunas

    Yamaha Presence Speakers

    It looks pretty clear from the specs that there are only 7 amplifiers in it. If you look over the specs of various receivers that Yamaha has you will see that certain ones, like the RX-Z1, RX-Z9, RXV-2092 and RXV-2095 actually specify two channels for front effects that are rated lower than the...
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