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  1. dave ratcliffe

    audio clipping on my ATI AIW capture card

    I have the ATI AIW Radeon 7500 capture card (the $90 one from newegg.com), it is working great, but occasionally the audio clips. Here are the settings I use: 44KHz, 16bit, Stereo through SB Live! Line-In Variable Bit Rate, 400KB. 1.00M bit per sec Mpeg-2 Any ideas on what it could...
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    Powercolor RADEON 9200 vivo for video capture?

    I got this recently for $90 at a computer convention with hopes of using it for video capture, anybody used it before or know how it is? specs: POWERCOLOR RADEON 9200 Video Card, 128MB DDR, DVI/VIVO, 8X AGP, Model "R92DV-C3L" -RETAIL
  3. dave ratcliffe

    good 5disc DVD player for VCDs

    My dad is looking to get a new dvd player so he is able to view VCDs (old sony one right now), and he would like to ditch his 5disc cd player and just have one 5disc DVD/CD/VCD player, any good ones out there that can play most VCDs. My cheap $50 Apex does awesome for every disc I've thrown at...
  4. dave ratcliffe

    dolby digital 3/2

    My reciever has been saying Dolby Digital 3/2 when a disc is first put in, did I accidently do something to the settings? I remember it saying something else.
  5. dave ratcliffe

    my tv emits a high pitch squeek

    I have one of those 27" Apex TVs from Circuit City (the $200 one), it works great, but when I watch TV every 5 seconds or so it squeeks, it doesn't do this when watching a movie though. Could I possibly fix it by getting some kind of line conditioner or something?
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    cannot view in widescreen

    I have a 27" Apex TV (the $200 one), and one of the cheap $50 Apex DVD Players (only to hold me over for 27 more days, then I will return it and get a nicer player, Anyway, I have a view DVDs that say widescreen on them (The Lost World Collectors Edition for example.) When I play them they are...
  7. dave ratcliffe

    should i buy widescreen?

    I use a 27" Apex TV I just bought today for $200, and plan on getting a non progressive scan DVD player to play my DVDs (HT isn't my biggest hobby, most of my money goes to my aquariums). Do I still want to get widescreen version DVDs? All it will do is letterbox them right?
  8. dave ratcliffe

    home theater systems in a box?

    Tomorrow I noticed some cheap home theater set ups and TVs. I can get a 27" TV for $150 (either Apex or Symphonic, or 25" Daewoo). Or a home theater in a box. At Best Buy, from KLH I can get a 160watt system with DVD player for $160 - $30MIR = $130 At Circuit City I can get an Onkyo...
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