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  1. Christopher Collins

    Austin - next HTF meet planning

    I have 2 who would like to attend this meet and testing. Are we still on track for this weekend?
  2. Christopher Collins

    Faux night sky ceiling - got info?

    Go down to your local Art School or community college and find the art department. Post an add on the wall stating that your looking for someone to paint a night sky mural. If you supply materials I bet you can find a very talented kid to hook you up for $200 or less. I paid for rent by...
  3. Christopher Collins

    First Timer Home Theater

    I would also go with CRT if I had 100% light control and a modest budget. I am looking at a BARCO 808 for around $2500 that will blow away even the highest priced DLP and LCD projectors on the market. That is for my theater room though. Head over to AVS and talk to Curt for more info. He has a...
  4. Christopher Collins

    Austin - next HTF meet planning

    Count me in , I would love to do some blind testing as well. I am about to start construction on my theater and would love to do some A/B testing.
  5. Christopher Collins

    HDTV & Display Related questions (MERGED THREAD)

    If you think you may want to purchase an HDTV in the near future (next 6-8 months)and you have verified that your local cable company has HDTV boxes, you may want to sign up for the service now. In some areas there is a long waiting list for the HD boxes. While you would not be able to view...
  6. Christopher Collins

    Canidate for HT Sub

    Ok i think that ill keep the boston and ad it to my set of 2 in the car at a later date. Has anyone given the w7 subs any thought for HT use? I was eyeballing the 13w7 the TS params are on page 3 of the pdf. Perhaps this would be more suitable than the Boston? If i read this right the xmax is...
  7. Christopher Collins

    HD "filming" and storage questions

    The HDTV process is a complete retooling from cameras, to editing, sound production and even over into broadcast. It all takes new hardware. Storage as far as im aware would also be digital. There are many editing systems these days that work with HD/Film resolution material and they use arrays...
  8. Christopher Collins

    Canidate for HT Sub

    here is a link to the pdf specs, maybe i wrote something down wrong. I have the 12.5 4 ohm version http://slipline.com/boston.pdf
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    Canidate for HT Sub

    From searching around I found that Adire has a nice plate amp. The HS500 looks to be something along the lines of the same specs that I push the Bostons in my car with. Here is a link to the specs. http://www.adireaudio.com/Merchant2/...tegory_Code=60 If anyone could take a stab at telling...
  10. Christopher Collins

    Canidate for HT Sub

    I have this boston pro 12" sub laying around and thought I might put it to some good use in my home theater. I have built a few enclosures for automobiles but have very little experience in building them for home use and would like to start with this. Can anyone out there let me know if this...
  11. Christopher Collins

    Receiver to speaker price ratio

    Home Theater Reciever - %15 Speakers - %25 Source - %8 Video - %52 ------------------ Total -$6500 Mobile System FrontComponents - %24 Midbass - %6 Subs - %14 Source - %11 Amplification - %45 ---------------------- Total - $4850 I spent my resources a bit...
  12. Christopher Collins

    Noise and my PC

    http://www.hardocp.com http://www.tomshardware.com http://www.anandtech.com http://www.arstechnica.com http://www.heatsink-guide.com I am sure there are 100's more but most of the ones listed are unbiased and give very detailed reports as to why they do or do not like a product. You will...
  13. Christopher Collins

    Pop quiz: How do you recover W2K on a dual boot system?

    boot to the win2k cd, at first menu press enter for setup, hit f8 on the licence to agree, windows will say you allready have a version of windows installed what do you want to do... hit R for repair... it will delete some files, then copy files and reboot. after the reboot it will do the normal...
  14. Christopher Collins

    The (in)sanity of collecting DVDs

    Ill give you the bit about comics being a largely visual medium. In my mind that’s about all they have in common with a DVD. Oh wait... If you expose your comics to bright light they can fade. Same goes for my home theater, its best enjoyed when kept in the dark. Some comics have great plot...
  15. Christopher Collins

    A.I looks bad on my HDTV

    Neil, I was not impressed with the transfer either. I watched it last night and to make sure it was the dvd that had issues, I slapped in 5th element, Apocolypse Now Redux, Fast and Furious and Aliens... they all looked great... AI was alone in its grain filled scenes.
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    I need learned opinions on "to buy or not to buy"

    It’s all in how you look at it. Perhaps I am spoiled by my 53. When I look at my neighbors 32, it seems small. I go to my parents and they have a 40, it looks small too. Even my 53 looks small after I compare it with the 110" FP setup I auditioned last weekend. So I guess its all relative. I...
  17. Christopher Collins

    If you could have one wish,What would it be?

    my wish ... no more internet pop up ads and email spam !! ! !
  18. Christopher Collins

    The (in)sanity of collecting DVDs

    I am not alone! This is great. At first I thought I was crazy. Then I started to realize that I was actually feeding an addiction. Am I a collector? I don’t feel that I am. In my mind collectors have some explicit taste they need to fulfill. Like collecting coins, saltshakers, baseball cards...
  19. Christopher Collins

    Time for another Austin meet!

    Hello all. Im in the Austin area and would like to be added to the list for future events. I will be out of town next weekend so I can’t make this meet. I am really bummed too; sounds like you guys are going to have a blast... I have access to allot of computer hardware, laptops too, for future...
  20. Christopher Collins

    I need learned opinions on "to buy or not to buy"

    I was thinking about the same thing a few months ago. I wanted to upgrade my bedroom set from a 27inch to 32 or 36. Then I thought to myself, that would just be a waste of $500-700. So i got a new dvd player ) I would go for HD as soon as possible. Anything else is a waste of money in my...
  21. Christopher Collins

    Xbox on HDTV

    I also have the Xbox on my HDTV and I will second the opinion that it looks and sound incredible. If anyone has any doubts I will be doing some screen shots this weekend of the PS2 VS Xbox on HDTV. Ill post the results on my website for all to see.
  22. Christopher Collins

    Progressive scan/multi-disc players?

    I recently purchased the marantz vc5200 and im very impressed. The audio quality is great and the picture is amazing. It does all the the standard mp3 / vcd / dvd audio as well as progressive scan. It is a 5 disk changer. I upgraded from a sony S330 and my picture is at least %50 better. Got...
  23. Christopher Collins

    Question on using DVD+RW/DVD-R for archiving home movies.

    IN order to get your home movies onto a dvd in a format that can be read by a dvdplayer you will need to convert the video from the firewire / VD format to MPEG2. After you have it in mpeg2 format you can use DVD authoring software to make a DVD with some simple buttons, which will allow...
  24. Christopher Collins

    RAID options.. Who makes the best setup?

    What exactly are you wanting to do with raid? If you are looking for capacity raid is pretty worthless. I would only use raid when speed or data integrity were of prime importance. IDE raid is not that great unless you spend some extra money and get the cards which have some cache onboard...
  25. Christopher Collins

    Videogame VIOLENCE, Is There Too Much Violence in Games?

    This is a pretty tired topic and im sure its all been said before but Ill chime in and have a stab at it anyway. We live in a world where the majority of people do not want to take responsibility for their actions. They want to be able to pawn the blame onto anything they can. On the same...
  26. Christopher Collins

    Okay guys...posting a test pic but more to come if this works...be kind [laugh].

    Very impressive and clean. The style is great and functional. Makes me want to run out and buy a house so I can have cool things like that!
  27. Christopher Collins

    isf or not to isf calabrate

    Bryan there are some great threads on this topic. I started one not to long ago and was pointed to this post... http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htfo...sf+calibration From what I understand, on a new set, it would be a waste of money. The set is going to burn in and drop in contrast /...
  28. Christopher Collins

    New dvd player and Contrast ??

    On my pioneer HD 53inch RPTV with my new Marantz DV5200 DVD player using VE and AVIA there is no blooming until I hit +30 contrast. I can see little to no change from 0-29. This was not true when I was using my old Sony S330 player. On the old player it would start to get nasty around 0 to 5. I...
  29. Christopher Collins

    Using Old reciever to power passive sub

    When I started off with my first HT I had excess of old car audio speakers and amps. I think most of it was radio shack brand and some stuff you could get from mail order catalogues like JC Whitney. I don’t think I owned a piece of speaker wire longer than 3 foot, but I hat allot of pieces! I...
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