Thanks again for the replies. Mike, I had taken it to a place that was listed in Denon's website as being an authorized service center. However, now when I go to the website they don't show up as an authorized center. Hmmm. Good to know that the repair at this point is probably not worth it...
As I said in my original message, I swapped both cables AND speakers, plus the center channel worked fine with non-DD source material, plus the center channel works fine now with a new receiver.
I have a Denon AVR-3200 that's about 5-6 years old and wanted to know if anyone had heard of the following problem. When listening to Dolby Digital material, the center channel either is gone, or comes in and out sounding very scratchy, as if there were a loose connection. I've confirmed by...
Judy: thanks for the quick reply. Misery loves company! I'm glad to know it's not a hardware problem, and glad to know WJLA is finally upgrading their signal. It'd be nice if these stations' websites actually had this kind of info on them (it might be there but I did some searches and...
I have a Samsung SIR-T150 tuner. Lately I've been having some annoying problems with tuning certain channels in the DC area. It started with our local CBS affiliate showing up as "no signal" and then also happened to the ABC affiliate. After a few days of this, I had the Samsung do an...
Hope this is the right forum; I also did do a search and couldn't find any threads dealing with this, but who knows if I typed the right magic words...
Are there any good scenes anyone can recommend where you can see interlacing artifacts that are removed/improved by switching to progressive...
For me, yes, regular cable looks awful through my Toshiba 42H81. I do have the option of getting digital cable and may end up going that route if I have to.
Hope some of the DC/VA people are still looking at this thread... I'm interested in getting ISF calibration too. Is the Chuck Williams you're talking about the same as "Williams Electronics" that comes up when you search for DC-area ISF people at the Imaging Science website?
If not (or even if...
So there's a rebate on the Samsung SIRT150 OTA HDTV tuner that brings the price down to $380 or so after rebate. But I also see on the forum here that they will be introducing a new model listing for $399 sometime in June (new model will be missing one set of analog component outputs).
Is...
Thanks to everyone for their help. I stopped waffling and got the 16:9 screen (42H81) which is what I really wanted anyway. It was good to hear that the step-up features of the HX vs the H were not all that significant. Now I just have to worry about keeping curious fingers out of my DVD player...
I've ordered a 43HX71 but it's not being delivered until Thursday, so I might still have a chance at switching. I was pretty set on getting a 42H81, but then I saw the 43HX71 and thought it could solve some other problems in my particular setup.
Pros for 43HX71:
* it's a CinemaSeries...
I'm not sure of the definition of "bass management" but the RP91 does have a menu where you can set large vs small speakers, and I've set them to small.
As for why I'm using analog vs. digital, it's strictly convenience. Since the AVR3200 only has DD and not DTS, I thought if I just left it...
OK, I have my Panasonic RP91 connected to my Denon AVR-3200 via the six analog outs. I've set up the RP91 for small speakers (NHT SuperOnes L/R, SuperCenter, SuperZeroes as surround, Mirage sub).
Question: I've already adjusted speaker delay times in my Denon. Do I need to do it in the RP91's...
Someone posted good results with onecall.com in another thread here in the HDTV area, ordering a 40H80.
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PS: I didn't think there was a 42HX81... wish there was...
Article is here:
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories...824108,00.html
Microsoft had originally claimed that it would be providing progressive scan output for DVD playback, but there'd been some hemming and hawing since that announcement. Apparently now they've pulled it altogether.
I'm...
That article is excellent but intensive. Here's a quick, hopefully accurate, description of 3-2 pulldown.
Movies run at 24 frames per second. Interlaced TV runs at 30 frames a second, 2 fields per frame. In order to pad 24 movie frames out to fit 60 video fields, if you do the math, you have to...
Grady: congrats on the clearance from the wife! Sorry about those deferred birthday presents. :)
Some additional comments to add to Jesse's...
Question 1: there was indeed a company hypeing a new storage medium that was clear, handled multiple layers, and could hold enough to effectively be...
Here's a highly detailed article discussing the ins and outs of progressive scan:
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Basically, if I understand it correctly, if the line doubler in your HDTV is good enough, you're right, you might not be able to tell the difference between a regular DVD player run through the...
I don't know about the region-free hack and how it affects performance (if at all). Video specs on the PS2 aren't very complimentary; they say it doesn't perform as well on paper as some DVD players half its price.
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Having said that, I've been using one as my primary DVD player...
It's not really deinterlacing... maybe it's related to it, but I've seen it described as the zoom function. 16:9 TVs usually have a similar function.
If you have a non-anamorphic DVD that is also letterboxed, on a 16:9 TV, you'd actually have left and right bars (since the DVD is really a 4:3...
I went with an RP91 mainly due to the positive comments in this forum. There are some concerns on its progressive scan capabilities since it doesn't use the Sage/Faroujda chip, but enough of the positives (DVD audio, DTS and DD decoding, excellent zoom mode for non-anamorphic DVDs) seemed to...
I'll second KennyWayne's comments about using a good cable for PS2 DVD playback. I saw a similar problem with chroma crawl when I first hooked up my PS2; really horrible with Toy Story 2. But I was assuming that using my PS1's S-video cable would work OK. Bad assumption. Once I got a S-video...
OK, the mystery is solved! The culprit? Apparently, after choosing DTS from the main screen of the disc, if you don't sit like a good boy and watch all the FBI warnings and Image Entertainment animated logo junk, and just chapter skip right to the Eagles, it doesn't pick DTS and gives you LPCM...
Scott: do you remember, or can you check, what your settings are on the RP91 to have it decode DTS? Is it the one I mentioned earlier, "PCM" vs "Bitstream"? That's the only pertinent setting I could find.
Hope I don't have to buy a DTS disc just to see if things are working as they should...
Everyone: thanks for the replies. I will try some of these settings tonight when I get back home. I guess it's worth a try to switch the DTS setting to bitstream, although the dire warnings in the manual of speaker-damaging noise was what stopped me from doing so (since my denon does not have a...
Phil: thanks for your message, and confirmation that things should be working as I expected them.
With the Hell Freezes Over DVD, you're only given a choice to select DTS or PCM at the very beginning of the disc, right when you put it in. I haven't found a way to get back to that opening...