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While re-arranging my equipment rack I stupidly side-swiped my 75-inch LG TV and put a slight scratch on it. It's very slight and could have been worse, only visible on bright material and usually only if you're looking for it. I'm prepared to just live with it, but I'm still quite upset that it...

I like to think I've been pretty well-versed in sound for more than 30 years, but Atmos just baffles me. I have tons of questions about how it works but here I'll just ask why on some services it works on some devices but not others. I thought the Atmos data was already in the Dolby Digital Plus...

Here is what happens at the end of "Bloodshot" on both the 4K and regular Blu-Rays: It automatically disappears after about 10 seconds as shown here- if you click "Extras" then all of the extras play in sequence- though I honestly don't think anyone who would skip the end credits would...

Hope the title isn't TOO confusing, but I certainly am right now. Started watching the My Bloody Valentine 3D remake, and had to mess with my Marantz SR7011 receiver beforehand- when my Oppo UDP-203 defaults to outputting PCM (so you get the menu sound effects), it puts out a regular 7.1 track...

I've had my LG 75UH8500 for a while now, and know about the "PC Mode" you can 'unlock' simply by changing the input's icon to the PC graphic instead of the others. Admittedly I don't know a whole lot about what this mode does, but one reason I found to use it was that it will at least let me...

I just got this amazing receiver yesterday; I actually ordered the 7010 but the Amazon seller had ran out of that model so they sent me this one with no additional charge, it normally would have been WAY out of my price range! However after spending all day yesterday setting it up, I can't sit...

I got this TV last week, despite hearing reports that the latest LG TVs could NOT display PAL-format video (or 50hz in HD or 4K.) I was pleasantly surprised to see that my TV DOES in fact display them, which is important to me as I have several PAL DVDs as well as PAL VHS, CED and laserdisc...

I'm almost embarrassed to have to be asking this question as up until now I've known everything about sound (haven't even had a setup without surround since 1989), but after looking through options I'm just a bit confused. What I would LIKE to do is replace my current 7.1 receiver (which doesn't...

My TV has an HDMI input with ARC (Audio Return Channel) which supposedly can send any sound from the TV itself back to the receiver it's connected to. My receiver however is just a bit too old and does NOT support ARC, and I've verified that if I connect this to an input on the receiver it will...

And again says "I don't like it, so I hope it goes away." I wish sports would go away, because I don't like them!

As if I needed any more reasons NOT to support the complete elimination of physical media in favor of streaming: I'm "one of those people" who watches a movie ALL THE WAY THROUGH, including the end credits. I think it's simply disrespecful not to, plus most of the time it's a good way to...

I brought this up on another forum a while ago and was largely met with indifference, but haven't discussed it much here: As you may be aware, a lot of movies are currently being released for purchase on digital streaming services such as Vudu and Amazon several weeks BEFORE they're available on...

This is a video I shot (sorry I can't figure out how to embed it here) displaying an annoying "feature" on my Sharp TV- as you can see, the backlight dims whenever the picture goes black or close to it. It gets really annoying during dark scenes in movies or credit sequences when text fades up...

I have many of the first in-store demo discs from when DVD players were a brand-new thing, and I am still looking for the demo discs from Pioneer and RCA. If you have these I will gladly buy them from you, also message me about possible trades. There must be some other geeks out there who are...

Long story short is my Vizio TV's been having problems, company's service has been awful so the warranty people are offering me a reconditioned Vizio with 3D (passive) which would be a step up from what I have now, or cash to get something else, but not as much as I originally paid for the TV so...

Posting this here since there isn't a general "High Definition" section anymore: Last year I got a JVC HM-DH30000U and a few D-Theater tapes from an Ebay seller, that machine works great but cannot output the DTS audio tracks that are on some tapes, so I kept looking for another machine that...

Don't know if this is the right area to post this but don't see anywhere else that mentions HD-DVD. Yes, it's a dead format, but for me that's part of its appeal. Anyways, long story short is I have almost every HD-DVD title released in the US, and over the past 2 weeks have found 16 bad...

This may be too early to ask, but does anyone know if there's at least a possibility of the current Mitsubishi DLP sets that are out right now working with the 3-D Blu-Ray standard when it comes out next year? I know the TVs have been marked "3-D Ready" for a while, but that really applies just...

Getting ready to buy a new receiver and I'm REALLY annoyed that new models are eliminating the 5.1 analog input jacks. I have a DVD-Audio/SACD player, as well as a 4-channel 8-track tape player, which I'd like to be able to use, and possibly some new format may come along later that requires...

I see a lot of new receivers no longer include support for S-Video. I'm planning on using one as the main switcher which will then be connected through HDMI to a new TV- I have a Sega Saturn game system which I'd like to keep hooked up with S-Video, and have both S-VHS and Hi8 decks (though...

Just how rare are these things? As an aficionado of failed formats, I've collected a few working CED videodisc players and every title put out on the format, and over the last year have been getting all the cheap HD-DVDs I can find. I've managed to find 4 D-Theater movies (a few showed up at Big...

This question is inspired by my younger cousin, who I haven't actually seen in a long time and probably doesn't read this forum (drop me a line if you are reading this!) He is currently working in Australia for an accounting firm over there, sent by one he works for here in the US- he'll be...

Hi Robert, You might remember me as the one who took your order on the phone at Tower.com (back when it was still Tower) for the "Walk The Line" DVD. Anyways, I thought I'd put this out here just to see if you have any advice: I know the economy isn't great right now and this probably...

Let's see if I get any answers on this- I know that some, but not all LCD TVs can display video in PAL format (used in Europe) without the need for any conversion- I have a few DVD players that will display PAL discs on an NTSC set, but the frame rate of anything shot on video comes out messed...

Simple question- I'm still searching for a new HDTV, but one issue I've ran into is compatibility with closed captions on DVDs. I know that the old-style TV-decoded closed-captions (not to be confused with the player-generated subtitles- many discs have both, some have just one or the other) do...

Thought I'd throw this out here- I've been wanting a new TV for a few years but hadn't quite found any I thought I'd be really happy with- I've had a Mitsubishi 40-inch picture tube set for 12 years now and it still works great, though it gets more obsolete every day. One of my requirements...

Sony, which has dumbed-down dozens of its DVD releases by reissuing them with only the pan & scan versions, when previously they had both, has also dumbed-down William Castle's "13 Ghosts". The original disc had the original "Illusion-O" version, which let you look through an included colored...

First off, let me make it clear that I know there aren't any DVD recorders that will record digital TV in 5.1, they all downmix it to 2-channel. However, I know that the Panasonic recorders at least will output it as 5.1 when you're watching it live, which is all I would really need a built-in...

What exactly can you do with those USB ports found on some DVD players? I thought you'd be able to hook up an external hard drive and play media files on it through your TV, but I just got a Polaroid DVD recorder that has one and tried it, and it didn't even recognize the drive being plugged in...

My Philips DVR985, which I've had for about 4 years, has died on me the 2nd time. It first quit working after I'd had it for 2 years, having trouble reading and writing discs until it eventually just said "NO DISC" to everything put in it. I sent it to their service place in Kentucky and paid...