I watched Futurama on my new N50BK. Not that bad at all for video based material. I think the whole point of Skyler's remarks were that it's very good for that "under $120" price class... and it is. Better than the new Pannys without the Faroudja. This player is sort of the old 500 in the way...
And I've yet to read or hear about the "DVD spec police" coming after and pulling over Columbia/Tristar for putting seamless layer changes in their Superbit titles. Maybe other studios shouldn't be so scared to do the same.
Not to generalize too much, but I will.:D Shouldn't Samsung concentrate on reliability in their products rather than features? Everytime I turn around, Samsung is pushing something *new* that other companies haven't rolled out yet. Then I flip to one of those sites with a bunch of consumer...
It's too late now, Kevin. What are they going to do, go back and remaster those thousands of old DVDs and reissue them for those of us who complained? It's really in the hands of the hardware manufacturers at this point. Plus, (I'm repeating myself from another thread) I never bought the idea...
Futurama has been my favorite show for the last couple of years, pushing down The Simpsons, but I'm pretty useless at work if I try to stay up "late" to watch Futurama on Cartoon Network. Besides, buying this box set, I'm hoping, would have a more direct impact on the slim chances of getting Fox...
Speed. Depending on which changer, I often think I can walk up to the single-disc player, put in a different DVD and have it start up faster than a changer can skip to the next DVD in its tray.
I guess you can search around the newer Panasonic threads. Word on the street is, Panasonic is dropping the prices of their new models, but that's because they're not going to use the Faroudja deinterlacer anymore.
Denon 2900, Philips 963, and Samsung 931. Those threads are already ridiculously long. Panasonic is off the radar as far as the new models go, unless its threads talking about shock and disbelief of the company's new direction.
Phil, I think layer change speed is all in the drive, and the 2800, 9000, and your 3800 are all 2x DVD-ROM drives. Similarly, Apex uses DVD-ROM drives, achieving great layer change speeds as well.
ReggieW, Can you confirm that the Denon 1600 is no better than the typical player when it comes with layer change speed? The results from Secrets for the 1600 and 900 seem to support the idea that the whole buffer thing is useless, and it's really the DVD-ROM drive vs. standalone drive thing...
With what I can forsee as no (great PQ) players coming up with aspect ratio control, including the Denon 2900 or the Philips 963, I think I might as well bite the bullet and just buy the stupid :) Denon 1600. Sigh:frowning:
You can mix and match OmniSats with OmniSat Micros and those bookshelves and towers based on the OmniSat technology.
Just go a little down on this page:
http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volum...03-page-2.html
...to see the "bigger" Mirage Omnis. They're not as "pretty", but I'd probably go...
I agree. That one huge thread about the 963 is full of hack-n-schmack stuff. I simply stopped bothering to follow it, because everytime someone asks a question about aspect ratio control or scaling, it fell on deaf ears. Not even a "we don't know yet" or "I haven't tried a non-anamorphic DVD"...
Just speculation really. Last year, it took until mid-year for the first of the Panny x2 models to come out... the 62s. Then longer still for the others in the series. The 85 (5 disc) this year looks like an absolute bargain at what one site said will be $149 MSRP. Maybe Panasonic will...
What's up with all the silver players with all these companies? Anyway, someone at AVS said the 65 and 85 are both 5 disc changers, but no news on what chipset(s) yet.
I'll be interested in how that Pioneer 563 turns out video-wise. The SACD/DVD-A capability is just icing as a low priced entry into high res audio. I'm not expecting anything spectacular out of its audio quality.
I think the current ones are rebadged Toshibas. From what little I've followed of them, people seem to be pretty satisfied with them if they like the pluses and minuses of similar Toshibas.
It just kills me that people who mix CDs don't go by any standard volume level. There's nothing worse than that loud song that comes in when shuffling a CD changer at a party.
Unless you can find the feature in a CD changer, I'd use a computer...
The quick way: Dump all the songs onto your...
Is it me or is anyone else getting sick of the gauging of in-player letterboxing in S&V? We get it! Their opinion has always been, Sonys good, everyone else bad in this respect. Those Low Points don't seem to amount to much, except maybe the optical output which can limit some people's...
Sorry, I've searched around, but most sub FAQs only seem to cover downward vs. side firing subs... I'm thinking of experimenting with a sonosub with the driver on top firing upwards. What characteristics, advantages, and limitations will this give me? On the bottom, I'm flexible with...
There's a little blurb in Secrets' review of the Denon 5803 that says the upconverted signal is 480i. (Link Removed) I figure it's probably the same case for the 3803.
It's mainly a convenience feature that I'd love to have in my (or my next) receiver/prepro.
From what I keep hearing, the preouts of receivers are an afterthought, so their quality isn't as high as the preouts of a true pre/pro. With that being said, if those things are equal, I'd go with whichever item sounds better hooked into an amp, and then which has the most features. The 3803 is...
Sound can come out of a TV?:D
Actually, even if I was to have mains and rears but no center speaker, I'd turn the TV's speaker off. Using it as a center just doesn't match right with the mains.