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Turns out the day I made it over to Video Only was the last day they were open before they close the SF store down for renovations. They were out of the 42" G15 and since they were closing for a while and didn't have any in stock there was absolutely no ability to talk the price down. Just free...

From what I've heard the sales are more a matter of perception than one of reality. Yes, plenty of stores have "sales", but really the greater issue is that the stores tend to sell more TVs during this time... not that they have better prices. The best prices are likely going to be during or...

Hmm... I noticed that ad and was thinking it was probably for that model as it's the only Panasonic listed in that size with "Internet connectivity" (rather annoying that they don't list model numbers). Sounds like I could probably barter that price down as well. In my experience working in...

I've been thinking about purchasing a new plasma, specifically a Panasonic 42" G10/G15, and I was wondering what the best time to buy would be over the coming few months. Initially I was planning on waiting until the Super Bowl when I could, presumably, take advantage of deals to get a good...

About what did you pay? I'm in the market for a 42" G10/G15, live in San Francisco, and was looking for where/when I'd find the best deal on an after Christmas/Super Bowl sale. If they can beat the $850 delivered, no tax price I've been seeing online they might have a sale. Oh, and looking...

My receiver defines it as: "The Pro Logic IIx Game mode sends surround channel bass signals to the subwoofer to preserve visceral impact." Personally I use it with games as a vast majority of games for the Gamecube and Playstation 2 were encoded with matrixed surround sound. Since they...

I'll second the Harmony. I bought a 676 used off the forum for about $70 a few years back and it was one of the best purchases I ever made. A nice mixture of hard buttons and user-assignable soft buttons. Programming codes in online takes a lot of the tedium out of it and the whole "activities"...

The standard argument is that Bose is very overpriced for what you get. They also refuse to publish specifications and other marketing techniques that very much oppose informed, comparative shopping. I don't really want to get much further than that because then we start getting into touchier...

Don't worry about the remote. I bought a Logitech Harmony 676 off the forum for about $70 a few years back and it's been a truly universal remote that even satisfied someone as picky as myself. For the 880 you can get it new for $150 or the new top-of-the-line One model for $230. I wouldn't...

In my experience I've yet to find a single game on the PS2 that has any in-game Dolby Digital audio. Even then the only game to use it that I can think of is Shadow Hearts: Covenant and it only uses DD in a few cut-scenes. What many, but not all, PS2 games use is Dolby Pro Logic II. This...

I certainly hope things don't go the way of cheap, lossy, "convenient" downloads. As bad as physical media DRM is I'm really not about to pay to download something that's heavily crippled. Moreso even though I'm rather young (26) and in the prime demographic to support it I absolutely loathe...

I was thinking earlier today that with Blu-Ray adoption picking up and the win in the format war it seems odd that current high resolution audio formats are still constrained to older audio technology. Not to start any wars here, but SACD is basically a hack of CD using DSD to cram higher...

Let me second the statement that you really need to fire your install guy and caution friends from using him in the future. If you're hooking up an HD capable projector and you're not using component (or DVI/HDMI) you don't know what you're doing. The only exception is if you both spoke about...

Let me second (or is it third?) the Harmony line. I picked up a 676 earlier this year from another member and despite being notoriously picky I absolutely love it. There are occasionally small quibbles (as there will be with anything you don't design and build yourself), but it manages to work...

Money, pure and simple. While I'm an HT enthusiast I'm also 25 years old, have been out of work for a year, and haven't been able to find a real post-college job (if anyone out there needs a molecular geneticist...). As a result not only do I not have the cash to afford an overpriced...

Man, now all I can think of is modifying the Playstation and then putting in a Millenium Falcon shell. If paired with that homemade Death Star sub that went around a while back that could be pretty sweet.

That was one of my concerns as well. They have absolutely no incentive to put quality DACs in it and since, AFAIK, it doesn't have any digital output you're stuck with them. As far as the benefit to getting decent sound out of it with mods, well... price is a major one. For us poor college...

Not exactly. DTS releases may be more or less alone in this, but some feature DTS 96/24 recordings in 5.1. Having only a standard DVD player it sounds pretty good, but isn't quite up to what you'd get with a proper DVD-A player. As well (as was mentioned upthread) many DVD-A discs contain a...

I happened to run across a website recently (http://dogbreath.de/PS1/index.html) that claims that the original Playstation makes an excellent CD player and that with a few modifications can be "a truly audiophile piece of equipment, which, concerning the sound quality, clearly beats commercial...

The best I've been able to find was a press release from just before the 2004 season listing the following shows as being broadcast in DPLII: American Dreams (NBC) Austin City Limits (PBS) Crossing Jordan (NBC) Desperate Housewives (ABC) Father of the Pride (NBC) Las Vegas (NBC) Law &...

I highly suggest Axiom's M3ti speakers. They frequently get excellent reviews and are known for a significant bang for your buck at $300/pair. I have a set myself and am very impressed.

So is Fletch getting a re-release or something? I mean, the fact that it's (allegedly) OOP and that they're now trying to dump inventory would seem to indicate that, but I can't recall having heard anything about it.

It's a bit below what your listed price is, but Outlaw's 1070 is wonderful. It has DVI switching (2 in, 1 out) with Outlaw stating that they prefer not to mess with HDMI yet due to it still being in a state of flux at present. Component switching is also offered with S-video and composite...

While there are definitely a lot of well-informed buyers today doing research on the Internet I'm willing to bet that there are even more totally clueless people out there. Admittedly most of them are probably going to go to Best Buy/Circuit City or some other big box retailers that don't really...

The 30-day guarantee makes it possible (of course, you'll pay shipping just to test whether it works) to try these things out in your own enviroment and tell if they make any difference. My suggestion is to do blind testing and see if you really see any difference. Ideally with a few...

My upgrade plan is to use good quality bookshelves as mains and when I can afford the upgrade to expand out to quality towers and move the bookshelves out as my surrounds. At present though I'm using relatively average size bookshelves as my surrounds because, like others have said, they're what...

If you're planning on upgrading one of my personal suggestions is to hold back just a little by getting something with more upgrade potential. Instead of getting a full 5.1. system right off the bat get a quality set of bookshelf speakers for mains. When you have the cash to expand these will...

While the conventional wisdom is that you always get the most bang for the buck from speakers as opposed to electronics (i.e. an additional $100 will show the most improvement if spent on better speakers rather than a better receiver or pre/pro) too much of a disparity will put a limit on the...

Well, if you don't mind getting out the soldering iron and have a bit of technical ability you can always build your own. The C Moy amp design is a pretty common one found around the web for hobbyist work (I suggest http://tangentsoft.net/audio/cmoy-tutorial/ for it's excellent tutorial on...

I've had mine, but the weekend involved setting everything up, buying a new TV stand and then tearing everything back down again and moving it all. I'm still getting the speakers set up optimally and tweaking, but so far I've been very happy with it. The biggest complaint that I've heard so far...