Coming from a digital source, you would expect Pixar's movies to look stellar. The Incredibles keeps the tradition going in grand style. This DVD looks so amazing..outshining just about any other animation I have seen on DVD thus far. The colors are bright and bold(and all of the subtleties of...
Having missed Men In Black II in its theatrical run, I looked forward to the DVD release..despite its tepid reviews. I thought the audio was superb...good low extension and immersive surround action. Video was sharp but I saw some EE-although not enough to distract. While the movie was not bad...
I was watching Life Or Something Like It this evening and this quote was lifted directly from it. A daughter had purchased the Acoustic Wave Radio for her father and she emphasized that it was made by Bose. Although there were other product placements in it like Mitsubishi and Altoids(!), I felt...
I received the firmware fix from Jeff Talmadge today via FedEx and immediately installed it in my player. It was a two-step process with two discs going into the player without pressing play. After some technostuff kept flashing on the display, I was ready to plop in Toy Story and give it a...
This 40 lb. monster arrived at my door today and it is a beast. I will have to be patient and wait until the weekend to play with this thing. It is very elegant and simple looking. I guess all THX-certified equipment has an unpublished minimum weight and size requirement.
More to come...I...
Despite hearing all the testimonies of praise for the SVS subwoofers all over the net, I have been a little apprehensive about purchasing any speaker without hearing it first. When I was at CES, I was given the opportunity to hear the Earthquake sub and was really blown away by it. Since I got...
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This is a picture of my living room setup for the first few months of living in this house. I was in such a rush to get my gear going and get unpacked in other areas of the house, it came out looking like a multi-colored pasta dish behind my rack.
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After using receivers exclusively for over two decades, I had the opportunity to get an amp for a very good price. I didn't hesitate in getting this Earthquake Cinenova Grande in my HT ASAP. It is a 5 channel 300W into 8 ohms monster. It weighs over 130 lbs. and was a total bitch to get...
Someone asked me yesterday what shows were in widescreen now, but not in HD. I could only think of ER and The Sopranos offhand. Can anyone tell of any other shows that are routinely widescreen? I think he was looking to explain to his wife why buying a widescreen TV was better even if they...
Well-sort of. The big software hit at CES was a repressing of the THX WOW Laserdisc onto DVD. It was the original 7.5 minute montage of the two trilogies and Willow. It was an awesome tease and, I hope, a hint of things to come in the future. From what I heard, there were only ten floating...
If you have been following any of the threads on this player, you will know that I have had problems with it. On paper, this is a potentially excellent unit...but the scaling video dropouts were unacceptable. After repeated contact with a tech at Denon, he finally got official word from Japan...
Please forgive my ignorance about VCRs...I have not used mine in years. I have a friend from the UK moving to the states and wants to know if such a device exists. Thanks in advance!
Well-I was wrong. After purchasing over 500 LDs, mostly before DVD's existence, I thought that would be my max. I mean I had most of what I wanted...and I was poor. But when DVDs were introduced, and I did succumb to buying a player, I rapidly piled them up. DVDs were so much cheaper than...
After moving into a new home 4 months ago, I have been sorting things out and working on different projects throughout. I now have the luxury of having two home theater setups. One is very similar to my last house, 65" rear and a 6.1 setup. The newer one is "Semi-dedicated" and is a Front...
A recent thread in Hardware made me curious to others' priorities. I used to be more of an audio nut, growing up with stereos and LPs. My transition to HT was a natural course but I always put more money into audio in the early years. It wasn't until I saw a friend's 11' diagonal screen in...
I just spoke to a source at Denon who, speaking off the record, gave me a little detail on the 5800 upgrade. First off, there will be one (applause). Estimated cost is $500-700 and will be partially through the RS232 port. Other parts may be changed, but it will definitely be an upgrade where...
Amidst the chaos that happened in the New York Metro area, the men in brown pulled through and delivered my Denon AVR-4802's and DVM-4800's. I was pleasantly surprised by this. When I plugged it in, the first thing I noticed was that the remote looked very similar to the 2800...not good. A...
While attending CEDIA last week, I went to the Denon booth and listened to brief excerpts of DVD-Audio. They now have a button on the front panel that says, Bass Enhancer. The speaker was not sure how many settings there were. Toshi, the Denon tech present, said there were 4 settings in all...
I am going because of my job. I hear this is the place to go for the newest in HT Hardware, even more so than CES. I was wondering if other people from this forum will be attending also.
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I just spoke to my Denon rep and was informed that the 4802 lists for $2500 and is due later this month. Also coming out later this month will be the Denon 4800 DVD player. That lists for $1200.
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I received 3 Denon AVR-3802s from the men in brown in today. It is not for my house though...it is for my store. Of course I will be demoing it in my house tonight anyway. I am not even sure what is so different about it yet-but I'll know in a few hours. I will post my findings later this...
I had a few local members of the HTF come over to my new house yesterday to compare these two fine players. My current progressive player, the Toshiba 9200, sat this one out as we were all very familiar with that picture on my ISF-calibrated 65" monitor. I have a Denon 2800 with a blue dot...
I am not sure if this was mentioned before. I recently read in TWICE magazine that Toshiba announced widescreen sizes of 42", 50" and 53". They will be dropping the 40" and 56" models from their line. They expect the 50" model, 50HX81, to be the big seller as it meets a need for a nice sized...
Don't rush out and commit to a Pioneer Elite set yet. I just attended a Pioneer seminar this evening and learned that they are releasing two new models due this August. Not only do they allow complete aspect ratio control in all modes, they now incorporate the same internal de-interlacer as...
Did anyone else catch the Sopranos double feature tonight? It was extremely impressive in HD. I flipped back to my regular cable picture to compare, but it was no contest. The 16x9 picture was clean and crisp. I am not able to get it in 5.1, nor do I know if it is available. Does anyone...
For those of you in the Cablevision area and are already receiving an HD signal from them, rumor has it they will be broadcasting CBS's program on the HBO channel 47. I just got a Radio Shack antenna to experiment with the OTA signal. Now I am excited to compare the two signals and see the...