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.
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...
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.
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.
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?
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.