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So far I have a Pioneer DVD player and Philips Widescreen TV. I'm considering building a dedicated PC with the right components to function as a: * Digital TV receiver/decoder * Dolby 5.1 receiver/decoder (e.g Sound Blaster Extigy) * DVD burner/copier Besides the obvious disadvantage...

A friend asked me how come you have expensive stand-alone DVD players and expensive Dolby 5.1 receivers, when you can get a (cheap brand) DVD player with 5.1 channel outputs and speakers in a package. My guess was the quality of the DVD video playback. All decent DVD player units do not have...

Hi, I need some advice for buying a Receiver and speakers. The first issue is how powerful? The size of the TV Room is only about 3m x 5m.. fairly medium-sized room. Some of the Home Theatres setups (Panasonic, Sony) have 30 or 40W RMS per speaker. Then you have some really expensive...

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Reviews on the following would be useful: Philips 32PW6516 76cm widescreen TV Philips DVD-736k DVD player Pioneer DV-355 DVD player Sony NS305 DVD player

I'm in Australia and I've purchased a Philips 76cm widescreen TV which has a refresh rate of only 50Hz, not 100Hz. It has the typical European video inputs to choose from: * Composite * S-Video * RGB (SCART connector) But no COMPONENT !? Now nearly all DVD players in Australia are...