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  1. Paul.Little

    Major CUE issues :f

    This thread serves to illustrate that the CUE is the most over hyped problem in the home electronics business. 90% of the people who own DVD players that display CUE cannot see it, and even those that think they do are usually seeing something else.
  2. Paul.Little

    Annual "DVDs we got for Christmas" list

    Pirates of the Caribbean X-Men/X-2 4 disc set Finding Nemo Spinal Tap: Special Edition and I'm pretty sure The Indiana Jones set is still to come.:D
  3. Paul.Little

    Dick Van Dyke rebate outrage!

    Best Buy made a deal with Image Entertainment to get the $20 off invoice themselves, in return for offering the consumer the $20 gift card. Same deal for Image, but a way better deal for Best Buy. They get a second purchase out of it, and at retail, so the cost to them is substantially less than...
  4. Paul.Little

    funny onion article about dvd's

    I have this vision of someone at a Wal-mart approaching people buying "fullscreen" versions of the movie and asking them to buy the widescreen instead, and then trade with him.
  5. Paul.Little

    Denon AVR-3803 vs. Pioneer Elite VSX-43tx -- which one?

    If you are going to buy the Pioneer, make sure you don't get the 4 ohm speakers. Or vice versa, if you already have the 4 ohm speakers, don't get the Pioneer. You will have nothing but grief. The Pioneer amplifiers are just not robust enough.
  6. Paul.Little

    help with my dvd audio player

    I am always surprised when I see questions like this posed here. Wouldn't this be a question to be answered by the audio/video professional you bought the player from?
  7. Paul.Little

    DVDs you regret purchasing

    Someone mentioned Highlander: Director's Cut. I'd be overjoyed if I'd bought that, instead of shelling out almost $40 for (if you can believe it) Highlander:The Immortal Edition. Sure, it came in nifty metal sleeve, but it has the same crappy VHS-like transfer as every other release of this...
  8. Paul.Little

    The Original DVDs

    I remember Sony's first DVD player came with three movies. One was Fly Away Home, one was In The Line Of Fire, and I can't remember the third.
  9. Paul.Little

    Older DVD player missing portions of movies.

    Hey, that's a great link. Thanks for that.
  10. Paul.Little

    CD security/copy protection

    Many of the new Cds that are coming out are digital copy protected. They will play in CD-ROM drives, but only if you install the included player. They will not play on any other media players, and you cannot copy them. The only way I can think of to make a copy of these discs is to use an Audio...
  11. Paul.Little

    Pioneer VSX47TX or 49

    I particularly like the automated surround set-up. It does a fantastic job. The VSX-49TX comes with a much better microphone for that purpose. As well, the 49TX comes with the fancy touch panel LCD remote control. The 49TX also has the video upconversion feature, that allows you to connect video...
  12. Paul.Little

    Looking for advice on LCD TV

    Personally, I think the Sharp Aquos are the best on the market. Brightest picture, widest angle of view, and pixels fail "off" instead of "on."
  13. Paul.Little

    Hanging Surround speakers

    With your speakers mounted that high, you are definitely going to want to point them down fairly dramatically for best results, so a specialty mounting bracket is probably the way to go.
  14. Paul.Little

    any 4:3 tubes under 27: with the anamorphic squeeze feature?

    I think the Samsung 24" does it.
  15. Paul.Little

    Hitachi 50v500

    I really prefer the picture on a conventional CRT rear projection TV to any of the LCD or DLP rear projection sets.
  16. Paul.Little

    New Member here with a question

    The Pioneer Elite TVs do an excellent job of progressive scan and 3:2 pulldown correction internally.
  17. Paul.Little

    Why did Beta fail and VHS win???

    It was a question of vision. Sony's concept of the home video recorder was only for use taping television programs. Someone in the VHS arena saw a future full of home video movie rental stores. Sony scoffed at that, and the rest is history.
  18. Paul.Little

    Widescreen DVD's and my WideScreen TV....

    That is exactly the problem, James. Some DVDs have a non-animorphic (not widescreen enhanced) widescreen version. Nobody understands why any studio would ever release such a thing, yet they exist. The original release of Armageddon, for example. These DVDs are designed for watching on a 4:3 TV...
  19. Paul.Little

    Dolby Digital vs. DTS

    The reason DVDs default to the Dolby Digital soundtrack rather that the DTS soundtrack is equipment driven. If you own a receiver with a digital input for a DVD player, it definitely has a Dolby Digital decoder built into it. It may not have a DTS decoder built into it. There are a significant...
  20. Paul.Little

    S-Video versus Component

    The difference in resolution between s-video and component video will be subtle. The biggest difference should be in colour bandwidth. The component video cable should give you better saturated colours.
  21. Paul.Little

    I finally got my Hitachi 51F500 calibrated...

    Did he also pre set up an input for HDTV, or will you have him back when you get an HDTV source?
  22. Paul.Little

    Problem with Hughes HIRD-E86 (no high def signal)

    What channel numbers are you tuning to?
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