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I use the 15-1994 with the 595... I had to "learn" the standby button, the DVD input select, and few more minor keys. Otherwise, it works well. The 15-1994 sends out a much stronger beam than does the 595 included remote. My receiver is placed behind my seating area and it's nice to be able to...

A few things to consider... with a PII 450, you might be stretching to get good, hi-res software DVD decoding. You should test it out before dropping any money into this computer (I think you can get WinDVD and PowerDVD demos online). Test it at the resolution and monitor refresh rate that you...

I got my X-10 lighting up with about $40... Bought an IR command center and three of the lamp modules (

My PS2 was having problems with some discs awhile back. I'm sure this wasn't good for it, but I didn't know what else to try... I took out my CD lens cleaner disc (the kind with those tiny extra soft brushes embedded in them) and played it. It came out with dust streaks behind each of the...

I have the SB Live and the Hoontech doohickey... works fine, but I would have prefered a card that worked without the doohickey. I have a Vortex2 (~$12, as I mentioned before) that I use in my HTPC. As for the SPDIF resampling, I think you'll find that pretty much every card will do that with...

Maybe this is too late, or maybe your configuration is different, but you shouldn't need a cable between your DVD-ROM and your soundcard to do DD passthrough. I think that's all done at the data layer by your software decoder...

It seems like your system is more than adequate to be able to get very high quality DVD playback... what kind of soundcard do you have? WinDVD 2.4 should have looked good (so you shouldn't have to spend the extra $50 for 3.0)... here are some things you might try: Download DVDGenie and see if...

Every Sears store in the region refused to internet price match for me. I ended up getting a price match from Sears online (kind of defeats the purpose, but shipping+tax from sears.com was less than shipping from others). And yes, my shipping weight was 46lbs... I think the manual or the box or...

Sure... the mirror has to be as large as the projected image for the distance between the projector and the mirror (including the effect of angling mirror, increasing the mirror size requirement). You'll want to draw out your expected light path (making sure to get the reflection angles correct...

They're way overpriced for the quality you get.

I just bought it not too long ago. I like it so far... Make sure to check out the tweaks people talk about for it (stuffing it and such). To be honest, I bought this sub because I'm more of a tweaker than an audiophile... hearing that I could improve the sound on this thing got me interested...

Eh, I still put felt blinders up to frame my screen when I'm watching letterboxed movies. I mean it IS annoying to most of us, at least a little. We all just tolerate the annoyance (or spend large sums of money to avoid the annoyance). People watch movies for different reasons. If he finds...

Hmm... I didn't read it with any sort of meticulous detail (and I really have no desire to argue for pan and scan here), but I don't think they were disagreeing with you. They just didn't like the implied condescension (ie. implying, perhaps unintentionally, that those who dislike letterboxing...

Go to http://www.projectorcentral.com/projection_calc.cfm The distance you'll need will depend on the projector and/or the lens you put on it. It will let you input width, height, diagonal, throw distance, whatever... I don't recall how far you should sit for that (and it's a matter of...

Another LCD projector question... I finally received my component RCA->HD15 cable today, so I decided to check out a DVD on my XGA projector. I use a playstation2 as my DVD player, not videophile quality perhaps, but on my TV the picture looks plenty good to me. I was horrified at the result...

Hi all, I have some newbie'ish questions about using my new LCD projector in my small apartment... I've been using it primarily as a big computer screen (a cordless optical mouse came on the market just in time :) ), but I'd like to also be able to use it in a make-shift home theater type...