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  1. Erik Pontius

    Your 1st DVD player vs. 1st Blu-ray player: How much and when did you buy?

    '97 was probably right...that was a long time ago...my memory fails me.
  2. Erik Pontius

    A Blu-ray player [Sony BDP-S550] that will do EVERYTHING! (Verified)

    I'd recommend Forbidden Kingdom. It will give your 7.1 setup a real workout....
  3. Erik Pontius

    A Blu-ray player [Sony BDP-S550] that will do EVERYTHING! (Verified)

    YES. Set the "Audio Output Priority" to "multi channel analog" and the "BD audio" setting to "direct"
  4. Erik Pontius

    A Blu-ray player [Sony BDP-S550] that will do EVERYTHING! (Verified)

    The "BD Audio" setting when set to "direct" and the "audio priority" set to "HDMI" the S550 should negotiate with your receiver to determine if it can decode the HD Audio codecs. If the receiver can't but can accept multi-channel LPCM, the player will decode HD Audio codecs to LPCM and send it...
  5. Erik Pontius

    A Blu-ray player [Sony BDP-S550] that will do EVERYTHING! (Verified)

    According to the manual you use "function" then "input mode" and select "ext in". You might also double-check to make sure you have things connected properly. Looks like the External inputs are directly above the Pre-outs. Can't you just avoid the multi channel analog inputs and send 7.1...
  6. Erik Pontius

    A Blu-ray player [Sony BDP-S550] that will do EVERYTHING! (Verified)

    Depends on the capabilities of your receiver. If you receiver has 5.1 analog input (6 input jacks on the back of your receiver) then you could set the S550's "audio output priority" to "multi channel analog" and then the "bd audio" to "direct" then change the "speaker settings" in the S550 to...
  7. Erik Pontius

    Your 1st DVD player vs. 1st Blu-ray player: How much and when did you buy?

    My first DVD player was around '96 or so, was the DVP-S7000. Probably spent close to $1k on it. Couldn't do DTS, couldn't play burned DVD's very reliably... My first BD player was somewhere mid 2007. The BDP-S300. Don't remember the exact cost...seem to remember it being in the $300 range.
  8. Erik Pontius

    A Blu-ray player [Sony BDP-S550] that will do EVERYTHING! (Verified)

    Yes. Set the player's "Audio Out Priority" to "multi channel analog" and the "BD Audio" setting to "Direct" Then enjoy.
  9. Erik Pontius

    A Blu-ray player [Sony BDP-S550] that will do EVERYTHING! (Verified)

    You'll need to change the "Audio Output Priority" to "multi channel analog" and the "BD audio" setting to "direct". You'll get DTS-MA HD 7.1 decoded to 7.1 LPCM though analog. The S550 display button will show "DTS-HD Master Audio 3/4.1 48khz" Without "BD Audio" set to "direct" you will...
  10. Erik Pontius

    *** Official KILL BILL: VOLUME 2 Discussion Thread

    Rocksalt shotgun loads are an old farmer's trick to scare the crap out of kids monkeying around. Rocksalt would have just enough to maybe penetrate clothing and really sting, but not enough to kill someone, enough to remind you that you wouldn't want to get caught again. I thought that scene...
  11. Erik Pontius

    TCM spec ed "removable" metal cover

    Essentially the same design that is embossed onto the tin sheet.... Here's the whole set... http://shop.newline.com/kernel/image...EN;key5=-100_l
  12. Erik Pontius

    *** Official THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Discussion Thread

    I think Ed dug up a lot of bodies...only killed two people by his own hand. I think it was a small enough town that if someone went missing...it was noticed. I watched the doc last night, one of his victims had been reported missing for a while, until they found parts of her at Gein's....So I...
  13. Erik Pontius

    TCM spec ed "removable" metal cover

    Yeah...I brought the set (minus the tin sheet) into work today to let one of my horror affeciado friends borrow and almost dropped the discs out the bottom of the dust cover to the asphalt in the parking lot. Then handing it over to my friend...he almost did the same thing... Can't wait 'til I...
  14. Erik Pontius

    TCM spec ed "removable" metal cover

    Thanks for the suggestion...Does slipping it in the inside pocket risk bending the embossed metal out of shape with the "evidence" packet in there, and then slipping the slip case it into the dust jacket? **grumble** I think I would have prefered some kind of tabs on the dust jacket that would...
  15. Erik Pontius

    TCM spec ed "removable" metal cover

    So I finally got around to picking up the TCM special edition yesterday. Among the "extras" advertised on the stick on label on the shrink wrap was the words "removable metal cover". So I removed the shrink wrap and the "removable" metal cover just falls out, being only held in place with the...
  16. Erik Pontius

    Cleaning DVDs.

    In my work we are constantly handling (perhaps mishandling) DVD's. They have a tendency to get scratches and swirl marks, along with figerprints over time. On a wim I picked up one of those goofy looking DVDdr http://www.digitalinnovations.com/ I took a pretty badly scratched and scuffed disc...
  17. Erik Pontius

    Dishnetwork losing Viacom channels....

    Well, I'm happy they finally came to an agreement...I won't have to watch Survivor and CSI in OTA snowy-vision tonight. I was tempted to switch to Direct myself if Dish wasn't going to be able to keep CBS/MTV/MTV2 etc... Though it does still worry me that the Chuck Chat replay on 101 lumped...
  18. Erik Pontius

    Dishnetwork losing Viacom channels....

    That is precisely what I'm getting at. I'm not saying I should be invited to the board meeting. I'd just like to know how much that rate increase will affect my monthly bill so that I can determine whether I feel that in order to watch MTV/MTV2/VH1/CBS, etc.. justifies an X dollar increase in my...
  19. Erik Pontius

    Dishnetwork losing Viacom channels....

    My beef is that I think the decision regarding a rate increase should be left up to me, the consumer. Let me decide if I think that the rate increase is unreasonable. They are going to give me a $1 credit on my bill to account for the lost of programming...I'd be willing to pay an additional $1...
  20. Erik Pontius

    Dishnetwork losing Viacom channels....

    Not all the Viacom channels have been pulled. I think that there are only a few channels that are being pulled out of Viacom's collection. Dish Network's Programming Packages listed on their website have already been updated to show the absence of VH1, MTV/MTV2, UPN, etc. The only music video...
  21. Erik Pontius

    Dishnetwork losing Viacom channels....

    Well great! What would I do with out Dish Network protecting my brain from being addled by too much redundant cartoon programming?! Well I'm about to write Chuck and see what kind of an autoreply response I get... Erik
  22. Erik Pontius

    Dishnetwork losing Viacom channels....

    an example of this would be? Erik
  23. Erik Pontius

    Dishnetwork losing Viacom channels....

    What I can't figure out is exactly what Dish is sticking up for. And they are a bit shifty on what kind of a deal Viacom is trying to offer them... According to Dish "Viacom has demanded higher rate increases which are unreasonable..." somewhere else I saw them state that it was a 40% rate...
  24. Erik Pontius

    Dishnetwork losing Viacom channels....

    Sounds to me like Viacom is feeding Dish a little of their own medicine. Imagine being forced to buy channels you don't want? Shocking isn't it!? I've got plenty of channels on my Dish that I don't want but still have to pay for them to get the ones I DO want! I've been a loyal Dish subscriber...
  25. Erik Pontius

    ***Official ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO Discussion Thread

    Keep in mind that El Mariachi was done extremely cheap and Robert never expected it to be as big as it became, rather expecting a Spanish home video release and a way to prove he could make a film. Desperado was more less a re-make of El mariachi with a larger (but very small compared to other...
  26. Erik Pontius

    Score one for Kyle and Efram! sort of - Ebert on "Shaker Heights"

    I traveled 3+ hrs to Dallas from Austin last night to catch this film. I had been a loyal viewer of the series and wanted to see how the finished film turned out as well as support the effort. I was disappointed for much of the same reasons Ebert had. I think no one will dispute that LeBeouf...
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