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  1. Frank**F

    I'm confused about hooking up my digital cable box

    Specifically, the audio. Right now the box is just hooked up to an old direct-view TV, using the traditional RF coax output to the back of the TV. All of my new HT junk is on order/en route (hee hee!), and I'm going to go buy cables this weekend. Of course, I'm going to use the separate...
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    How do you mount the center on top of the TV?

    Most of the RP tvs I've looked at - even the CRT ones - don't have a terribly wide platform on top of the TV. Do you guys stick a gob of velcro up there, or what? How do you get the speaker to stay? I feel like there must be some sort of trick to it, of which I'm not savvy.
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    DVD recorders - Tivo-like functions (commercial killing, etc)?

    I've been researching the various HD-based DVD recorders out there, and I haven't been able to figure out one detail. Don't have Tivo, but I've heard lots about it from friends. With the HD burners, can you mimic the "commercial killing" functionality of Tivo, and the live TV "pause"...
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    Advice for a NOOB? The HT needs to go into a very wide room (25 wide by 12 deep)

    I'm putting this thread here rather than in one of the topic-specific forums, because I realize that the shape of the room will affect lots of things, from viewing angles, to acoustics, to furniture, to who-knows-what. The HT will go into a room 12 feet deep by 25 feet wide. Windows at one...
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