Purchased by me directly from DataColor in October '05. MINT condition and includes all items, original packaging, and aluminum carry case. Current price of a new unit is $2400. Selling for $1,500 USD, shipped.
If you pull off the front cloth panel, a few more screws will get the front control panel off. Then just pull the connector that goes to the TV (it'll be pretty obvious. I'm pretty sure the TV will function normally with this disconnected, but I can't say I've ever tried it.
If your interest in a changer is primarly for music playback, consider using a basic DVD changer just for your audio needs, and a seperate HDMI-equipped up-converting DVD player for your video needs. It might sound redundant on first blush, but it's a workable solution.
I believe the last line of new models was intro'd at CEDIA in September 2004. I don't believe they showed any new receivers at this year's CEDIA, so I suspect the annoucements will come at CES in early Jan.
It's important to remember that clean power *sounds* less loud than distorted power. The only way you can really know what's going on here is with an SPL meter.
It will work if - and it's a pretty big if - your cable company delivers some HD channels "in the clear" - in other words, without "conditional access"/encryption.
I use one as something of a test device to stream HD content from a server to a display. It generally does a fine job. Firmware updates are pretty frequent, and the user community is very knowledgable, so any questions I've had, I've been able to get answers on pretty quickly. Overall, I'd...
I bought my Father a pair of RCA wireless headphones and they included an RCA->1/4" adapter. Just plugged right into the TVs audio output jacks. Works great. edit: Ummm...just like the picture in that link!
And what exactly do you think the name brand screen is made of?! No offense, but when it comes to no/low gain screens, name-brand screens are pretty much in the same category as high-end cables. It's the "let's make 'em think we have something special" thing. I say go ahead and spend the...
Definitely upgrade the firmware (it's available on Samsung's web site). Then, disable HDCP encyrption by following the instructions on the vcdhelp.com site (Angle-4327-Angle, IIRC). This will allow 720p or 1080i output via component video. I like my 841 just fine. Just don't use the DVI...
Marantz is part of D&M Holdings and, as far as I know, D&M does not own Mordaunt Short. They recently bought Boston Acoustics though. I do agree with your Marantz recommendation nonetheless!
My guess is that it has more to do with the limited production run affected by this issue. Perhaps none of the affected chassis were installed in 46" or 65" models.
If you go to http://www.tacp.toshiba.com and select "Updates/Notices" under the Customer Support menu and then select the proper notice, they have a method of inputting your serial number to determine if your TV is affected. Since the internals are pretty much identical, I wonder how the 51"...
My experience with this is all in Toshiba's, but I believe most brands are quite similar. On Toshiba sets, at least, there are 2 chips and they aren't very expensive at all - something like $10 each. The rest is labour.
You definitely do not need DTV Link (Firewire) to work with any digital cable box that I know of. There *was* going to be a digital cable box made by Sony that would tune an HDTV channel, but did not have an HDTV decoder in it. It would output the HDTV bitstream through Firewire, requiring...
I hadn't even considered that they were mislabeled somehow, but after reducing the blue screen control (and the green, but that was probably unnecessary), the cuts/drives seemed to function as expected and I ended up with a decent grey scale.
I had the opportunity to calibrate one a couple of weeks ago. They've done a really good job of fixing some old issues with the previous model - most notably, uneven focus across the screen (especially with blue). Colour linearity was pretty good, so I passed on lens striping. There was one...
The XR70 has only 1 'pass-through' HDMI input. You can grab the audio from that connection, but since there's only one input, it doesn't do any switching at all. AFAIK, the least expensive with HDMI switching is the upcoming Marantz SR-9600.
I bought and assembled the CK222 kit from CanaKit (http://www.canakit.com) It has a very decent range...we could easily tune it's signal from the cottage to the beach about 100 feet away. It looks like they've revised the design though...the one I built was much bigger and took 4 AA batteries.
I very much miss having a changer. I was just reading a CES report in a trade paper yesterday and it said that Toshiba is coming out with an upconverting HDMI changer this year. Not sure about DVD-A or SACD support though. edit: Just looked through Toshiba's CES press releases and could...
Convergence takes up to an hour to stabilize, so only adjust it after the TV has been on at least this long, and wait at least this long before checking it.