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  1. Pete_S

    What's up with "The Jerk" HD DVD & Amazon Delay?

    Paul, I'm guessing Amazon is simply mishandling your order because it was for the initially-planned HD-DVD/DVD combo release of The Jerk (if I remember correctly Universal changed it to a non-combo towards the end of February). Amazon more or less canceled that item and re-added it as a separate...
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    Children Of Men debuts on HD DVD Combo Format, 3-27-07

    I believe if you hunt around Amazon's site for the fine print regarding their free Super Saver shipping, it will indicate that these orders are essentially a lower priority than others. Orders for customers who paid for shipping and for Amazon Prime members will take top priority, and Super...
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    first review of CASINO ROYALE from IGN - PQ 9/10 AQ 10/10

    As much as I hate to say it, I picked up a Playstation 3 last night entirely because of this movie. I've never been a big fan of Sony and I'm very pleased with what HD-DVD has had to offer, but I knew when I left the theater after seeing the midnight opening night showing of Casino Royale that...
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    'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,' 'The Nutty Professor' on HD DVD April 24

    Fantastic! I'll finally be able to delete Eternal Sunshine from my DVR. I find the movie to be rather depressing overall, but somehow in a good way. One of my favorites.
  5. Pete_S

    Firmware 2.0 Disc Backordered... Could someone help?

    I can verify that the firmware update(s) linked in this thread work fine. The file size of the ISO should be 58,420kb. Make sure you burn in Disc-at-Once mode and not Track-at-Once, or the player will get to about the 50% point and spit the disc out and tell you to try downloading the update later.
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    LCD on a budget

    If I may make a suggestion, do a little research on the Olevia brand name. They've garnered some pretty good reviews in the budget LCD arena, and for the price it seems you can't go wrong. I just received my new 37" 537H model today from Newegg - the total was about $1037 shipped. So far I've...
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    Still waiting for some 1st for HD disc!

    I believe the fifth season of Smallville is set to be released on HD-DVD at some point. I saw a magazine ad for it recently, although no release date was given (it's "coming soon," or something to that extent).
  8. Pete_S

    HP rolling out HD-DVD drive by Christmas 06

    A read-only drive doesn't sound like such a bad idea to me. As we've seen with the Toshiba HD-DVD models, the players are basically just specialized computers. For those of us who already have "high-end" computers with the other components necessary to do the processing, why not let us have the...
  9. Pete_S

    Rammstein - Reise Reise

    I've been a fan of Rammstein since MTV played Du Hast so many summers ago (this is probably the case for a lot of us American fans), but Herzeleid ended up being my favorite album of theirs. I was kind of disappointed with Mutter, and the singles I've heard from this latest effort don't seem...
  10. Pete_S

    Bill Cosby: Himself - 8/10

    Great news! I first saw this in my high school psychology class of all places and watched it again a year or so after that - everything was just as funny, if not funnier, the second time around. I'll definitely be adding this to my collection.
  11. Pete_S

    Help setting up a new primary hard drive

    Thanks to all for your suggestions. I tried Powerquest Drive Image 7 twice to no avail (got a lovely "Error loading OS" message after switching the drives), but lo and behold, Seagate's own partitioning software did the trick. It took an extraordinarily long time for it to copy the C drive...
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    Help setting up a new primary hard drive

    Just to clarify, I hope to be copying directly from the original drive to the new drive by hooking the new drive up to the computer via an external USB2.0 enclosure. I don't want to deal with any kind of "middle man" like DVDs if I don't have to. I see that Norton Ghost supports making backups...
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    Help setting up a new primary hard drive

    I've had my current computer for about two and a half years. I started with a 60gb hard drive, and about a year ago added an 80gb drive to the mix. Now, both drives are reaching full capacity, and I'm ready to swap the 60gb one with a new 160gb drive. My question is this: Is it possible to...
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    Ryan Adams "Rock n Roll" Hybrid-SACD on 2/24

    I picked up a copy at Best Buy on Wednesday for $14.99. They had 3 copies in stock at the time. This is my first experience with Ryan Adams - I'd heard one single from this album (and liked it) and I was itching to buy a new SACD so I went ahead and took the plunge. I had no idea that it had...
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    Norah Jones - Million Copies In A Week

    I'll buy the album if and when it's released on SACD. Even at $9.99 for the CD, I'd still end up paying well over $20 if I gave in now and had to double dip on a SACD version later.
  16. Pete_S

    CC closing 19 stores, one of wich was mine.

    Here's a list of the stores slated to close by the end of this month (from http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/...90/detail.html): Brookdale 5900 Shingle Creek Pkwy., Brooklyn Center, Minn. Cape Girardeau 164 Siemers Drive, Cape Girardeau, Mo. Cutler Ridge 19825 S. Dixie Hwy., Cutler...
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    Norah Jones "Feels Like Home" SACD?

    As a casual Norah Jones fan who owns her first CD but still hasn't gotten around to dropping another $15 to get the SACD version, I decided long ago that I would wait for a SACD release to buy her second album. If that means I never buy the album, so be it. I'm a college student and I don't have...
  18. Pete_S

    labyrinth, the so called collectors edition...

    Columbia loved this release enough to take out a full 2-page ad in the front of the latest Rolling Stone (the one with the Beatles on the cover) to advertise it. That ought to explain where some of your $50 is going, I guess.
  19. Pete_S

    $3 Off Alice in Wonderland Coupon

    Looks like you fell victim to the abbreviated link message boards are so fond of these days when you copied the link, Greg. Here's a working link: http://click.atdmt.com/avenuea/go/ai...0ave/direct/01
  20. Pete_S

    Foo Fighters - One By One DVD-A specs?

    Tony, I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say it sounds compressed, but it definitely doesn't give you that "feels like the band is right there" impression that other discs have given me. I did buy the CD when it first came out, but it's been some time since I've listened to it. I'll see if I...
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    Foo Fighters - One By One DVD-A specs?

    The Pioneer 563-A identifies the disc as 88.2kHz/24bit for both multichannel and stereo. At first I thought there wasn't even a hi-res stereo track available, as when the disc loads the album starts playing your only options are "Playlist" and "Photos." The way the disc is authored, clicking...
  22. Pete_S

    Best Buy's New Rewards Program...thoughts?

    Finally got $25 worth of certificates in the mail today (which the Reward Zone site listed as issued between 9/12 and 10/15). Three $5 certificates and one $10 certificate.
  23. Pete_S

    Any reviews of the Flaming Lips DVD Audio?

    The one thing I don't understand is why they even bothered including the same exact Yoshimi CD that I and many other fans already paid for once over a year ago. Why weren't some of the bonus audio tracks from the DVD put on the CD to entice those without DVD capabilities to buy and make the $20...
  24. Pete_S

    Is the dvd-a REM greatest hits available?

    Picked this up at my local Best Buy today for $13.99. According to the back of the case: - Dolby Digital & DTS 5.1 Surround Sound - Advanced Resolution Surround Sound (96kHz/24-bit) (verified) - Advanced Resolution Stereo (192kHz/24-bit) (verified) Just to reiterate, the surround track...
  25. Pete_S

    Are there any current Amazon coupons out there?

    Yep, if you've ordered from Amazon in the past year or two you've been given the option at the last step of the checkout process. You can enter email addresses of friends to "share the love" on the particular item(s) you just ordered. The Share the Love forum at DVDtalk is set up just for...
  26. Pete_S

    Stereophile magazine reviews the iPod

    Scott L, Nope, 32-bit was right. A double-check reveals that Windows XP recognizes the file as 24-bit (which may be my problem), but programs like Sound Forge 6 and Cool Edit Pro recognize the file as 32-bit. I recently got a new turntable and soundcard, and I've been experimenting with...
  27. Pete_S

    Stereophile magazine reviews the iPod

    As far as iTunes for Windows is concerned, it seems you can only encode AAC up to 48kHz. I tried converting a 16-bit (iTunes wouldn't even open a 32-bit) 96kHz wave at 192kbps and auto sample rate (other options were 44.1kHz and 48kHz) and iTunes spit out a 48kHz file at about 1/3 speed (a 2:53...
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