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  1. Ryan Spaight

    PS3 1.54 Update Available

    This just appeared. No word on the official site yet as to what it does... Ryan
  2. Ryan Spaight

    Official Playstation 3 Blu-Ray player Thread

    I don't know about a CD, but I can confirm that it works perfectly with a USB flash drive (and you don't have to use up a blank CD). Ryan
  3. Ryan Spaight

    Nonanamorphic DVD + 1080i upconvert + Zoom?

    Thanks. I've indeed got all the zoom options in all resolutions. Here's a handy guide (all HDMI): 1080i 4x3 letterbox from Dish ViP622: "Zoom" mode works correctly 1080i 4x3 fullscreen from Dish ViP622: Windowboxed in "Wide" mode 1080i 4x3 letterbox from Denon 2910: "Zoom" mode is stretched...
  4. Ryan Spaight

    Nonanamorphic DVD + 1080i upconvert + Zoom?

    Yes, it's set to 16x9. I discovered there's a "squeeze mode" in the player settings that forces the image into a "windowboxed" mode (4x3 image inside 16x9 frame), which seems to work better. However, it's a manual setting that is only accessible from the player setup menu (no discrete remote...
  5. Ryan Spaight

    Nonanamorphic DVD + 1080i upconvert + Zoom?

    It's been eons since I posted here, but the arrival of a new Sony KDS-50A2000 TV has thrown my previously well-ordered home theater into disarray. I've pretty much licked most of the issues, but there's one thing left that's vexing me. I'm not sure if it belongs here or in Display Devices, so...
  6. Ryan Spaight

    where's the love for The Wire?

    I'd rather pay $100 (or $70 from Amazon) for 13 episodes of The Wire than pay $10 for 26 episodes of most other shows being sold on DVD. Ryan
  7. Ryan Spaight

    Mystery Science Theater 3000: all episodes going OOP...

    Rights issues, I believe. Ryan
  8. Ryan Spaight

    DIVX is Dead Day 5th Anniversary

    Right, it was actually developed by an entertainment law firm whose name I've blessedly forgotten. Ryan
  9. Ryan Spaight

    DIVX is Dead Day 5th Anniversary

    Gadzooks. I'm having flashbacks to the E-Town forums. Say it with me now... FOX IS IN!!!!! Good days, good days. How far we've come. Ryan
  10. Ryan Spaight

    DIVX is Dead Day 5th Anniversary

    These kids these days with their 2-disc DVD special editions and box sets of DVD TV shows. They don't remember sweating bullets watching player sales slowly slog through the six-figure bracket and reading Circuit City press releases with fear and loathing. They've never heard of Dick Sharp. To...
  11. Ryan Spaight

    Why so many good HBO drams in full screen format?

    The Wire (at least the first two seasons) is 4x3 as well. Ryan
  12. Ryan Spaight

    Why so many good HBO drams in full screen format?

    The Wire (at least the first two seasons) is 4x3 as well. Ryan
  13. Ryan Spaight

    Video card w/component out?

    Yes, and many of the non-AIW versions do as well (the dongle converts the DVI out into component, I believe). Ryan
  14. Ryan Spaight

    Interesting Story on Beatles catalog

    No, this is just all about money. Jackson owes Sony a bunch of it. Sony has apparently decided he's no longer good for it, and so has called in the publishing rights that he'd put up as collateral when Sony gave him the loan. In any event, holding the publishing rights has no bearing on the...
  15. Ryan Spaight

    Marillion- Marbles

    As someone who's also "in the book", I agree that this is a keeper. (I've only made it through once so far.) With two hours plus, it's a lot to digest, but worth the effort. The package itself is amazing. Easily the most impressive CD package I own, and that's saying a lot. The production...
  16. Ryan Spaight

    Turtle Beach Audiotron and Linux

    I've not tried it myself, but supposedly you can do it using Samba. The message board at Turtle Beach's site has a lot of posts on this topic. Ryan
  17. Ryan Spaight

    Got a problem with a 15 year old hacker...help guys!

    I'd think a hardware firewall would stand up to something like that. According to an article I found here, this thing works by using port 3410, and "ending the processes belonging to certain firewalls." You can't "end the process" of a hardware firewall. The best you could do would be to...
  18. Ryan Spaight

    Got a problem with a 15 year old hacker...help guys!

    A hardware firewall using NAT (Network Address Translation), such as the Linksys box mentioned above, is an excellent and easy way to lock out this sort of activity. Basically, the firewall assumes your IP address and your PC gets one that is meaningless on the Internet. So the kid ends up...
  19. Ryan Spaight

    Database Assistance Needed

    Yes, it's definitely best to define those yourself, so you pick something that makes some sort of sense to you. Make them whatever you want (as long as they're unique within their respective tables), making sure that you have enough permutations to deal with the likely number of items. (A two...
  20. Ryan Spaight

    Database Assistance Needed

    First off, you'll save yourself lots of time and aggravation by just going out and buying a copy of Quicken or Money. But I get the impression you enjoy the DIY approach, so here's some suggestions to get started. First, create tables to define all your categories: Expense Categories, Expense...
  21. Ryan Spaight

    Attn sysadmins: Verisign claims all unused COM and NET TLDs

    Sometime yesterday, Verisign added a wildcard A record to the COM and NET root nameservers, which resolves to 64.94.110.11, or sitefinder.verisign.com -- a big fat Verisign page. *Any* invalid hostname ending in COM or NET will now return this address. (Try it with nslookup. Scary.) This is...
  22. Ryan Spaight

    Bound S.E.?

    The Republic copy I have from 1997 is the unrated version. Or, at least it's not the R version -- is the UK version even more "unrated" than the Republic DVD? Or has there been a reissue of the R version? An SE would be welcome. Ryan
  23. Ryan Spaight

    What DVDs are we likely to see next year?

    Hey, David, I heard somewhere (don't remember where, all these web sites bleed together after a while) that HBO would be putting out Season One of "The Wire" next year. If true, I'm definitely on board for that! Ryan
  24. Ryan Spaight

    The Kids Are Alright???

  25. Ryan Spaight

    The Kids Are Alright???

    Jon Astley put out some horrid remasters of Who material. Problem is that he loves to slather on lots of NoNoise to get rid of hiss. Audiophiles hate NoNoise for the same reason that videophiles hate edge enhancement -- the cure is worse than the disease. Taking out the hiss takes out useful...
  26. Ryan Spaight

    New Car: 2003 Honda Accord or 2003 Mazda 6 (or any other 4 door Sedan?)

    The sport package will also negate the 0% financing, so that's another good reason to avoid it. Andy's right, it's mainly fluff. The Accord felt "floatier" to me than than the Mazda, though neither were anywhere close to Grandma's 1979 Delta 88. (Crushed velour rules.) :) I thought the 6 was...
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