Well the long wait for the Sherwood Newcastle R-972 is almost over. The product has taken on a new life from the original look we had at CES way back in 07. It now boasts the Trinnov Optimizer as its raison de etre. Whether you think a room EQ is enough to steer you toward this product or...
I'm fishing for opinions here. Does anyone use an online subscriber music service? You know, like Napster or Yahoo Music? Does anyone have any opinion as to whether they like them or not? I am wondering about that whole subscriber paradigm. The classic opinion is that people like buy...
Yeah, another lame comparison thread. It looks like I can obtain the 470 for an extra hundred bucks, is it worth it? I have a larger room and am using an NHT sc1 for center. It's a nice speaker with two 4.5 inch woofer are a bit thin up front. I find voices are lost sometimes. The cc370...
I just built an HTPC on the cheap. It's not a 'true' htpc though because I went so cheap on 'htpc' specific parts. I basically installed WinMC '05 on a home made system designed with PC gaming in mind. I have an Xbox360 and I wanted to see how much media stuff I could get away with on it...
Where are the video gurus? Either... Nobody knows what I'm talking about. Nobody is concerned with the ability to display HDCP encrypted content in the next gen optical storage devices. There is already a comprehensive conversation on this topic. Please inform There has to be...
My question is really about display devices and not HTPC or A/V sources such as HD DVD or Blu-Ray. Will existing TVs with so called "HDCP" inputs, IE DVI or HDMI inputs, actually work with HD DVD and Blu-Ray when it comes out? The answer would seem yes, of course. But the reason I ask is...
It seems when judging image quality on HD there are several things that could cause what we're calling "pixelation". "motion blur"? I believe it's either bad 2:3 pulldown or just macroblocking causing visible pixels to appear when things move fast on screen. I have a Sony LCD RP and I am...
Good chatting Jeff, we're having a different discussion inside this one. Good to know there are still some old timers around. I suppose I could rattle off some Detroit bands but nobody ever heard of them. CBGB is legendary. I'd give a bodypart I don't need to have seen some of those original...
Great stories Jeff. So, you're a veteran of the Boston area punker scene eh? About what years were you going to shows, if you'd rather not say I'd understand. I knew a girl from Boston, beautiful girl. She was really nice, hip as far as music and subculture. Also a bit proud of the area of...
Hehe, I love thread. @ Doug's "rolleyes". I hear ya! Head-fi.org definitely got my head-fi education rolling. Today I'm the proud owner of a pair of SR60s for the road and 325i for the office. I thank them. Jeff... No, I LOVE Aimee Man, I'm not just talking about her music, I can tell...
Hey Doug I love Aimee Mann! I like Head-Fi.org too and of course the general message of Bose being a mastermind of marketing paper coned sub-par speakers as audiophile quality. It's a well established truism. About head-fi.org, not everybody of course but it seems the general consensus...
Thanks Chris, very informative. It's one of those things I was never sure about. Not to get into a long 1080P debate, that's not what I'm looking for. I hear 1080P talks quickly turn into ... 1080P/60. Is there a reason that 1080P/60 is considered the holy grail? Just because 60 is good...
I understand that video TV refreshes at a rate of 60Hz, it's been that way since late Roman times. Is this correct? The interlaced 480i TV refreshes at 60Hz. Now my question is what about new HDTVs that are progressive scan and alternate display technologies to the CRT? For instance...
Divx in its current incarnation is very very cool, no doubt. I am all for it and surely if I were in the market for a DVD player I would look for compatibility with the codec. However the first time I saw... Divx this or that on a feature spec I was like ... barf! Stay away! Evil! And I saw...
Thanks guys. So it was Divx after all, but the name has no relation to the current compression called Divx? Why would Divx want to name their compression method after a failed business venture with Circuit City?
Hi, I have another 'name-that-technology' blast from the past question. I can't name it but believe I am remembering it correctly. Divx today seems to be another a/v compression format like Mpg2. But I seem to recall that Divx was a format of disc you could rent from Best Buy, it was a kind...
Thanks for the recommendation John, and the insight Arthur, I knew I could count on this forum to dispell. Actually I suspected exactly what you said Arthur but didn't want to jump out with it because I wasn't sure. If I saw those specs on a standard amp, that I know, I would have screamed...
Hello I'm looking around at specs on various amps and am finding some interesting features on some JVC offerings. These new generation of digital amp/receivers by JVC and Kenwood (I've only looked at specs from both) show some weird specs I'm not used to seeing on conventional amps. What...
Thanks again Dave.
I just finished reading an article on films using 1080P/30 or 25, they were saying that since it's the same bandwidth as 1080i/60 or 720P/60 it'll be easier to deliver to the 1080P ready TVs. I don't know if this is a short term solution until they can do 1080P/60...
Hi I've been lurking this thread, I really like David's posts, thanks Dave. I have a question that I hope someone can clarify. I've read little tidbits about problems with 1080P/60 source material having no delivery method to the display. IE, your TI processor can do 1080P/60 but your HDMI...
Hi, I didn't know where a cable standard question should go in these forums, I hope I chose wisely. My question for any of you Gurudinal ones is about the Dvi standard. Some of you might just be fans of the industry (as I am) and don't consider yourself a guru at all, I'd like to hear you...
Thanks. That tech stuff is exactly what I am interested in though. I've read a compelling website that takes you on a step by step of why the 360 is actually better for graphics rendering. Because basically floating point calculations (PS3's strong point) isn't the whole picture. I think...
I see what you're saying Rob. I guess I'm looking at too large a picture there. I put myself in Gate's shoes in the mid 90s, looking at what he had then and where he thought things were going. I'm certain no decision he made then had any direct impact on what they're doing with 360 today...
No, CD-i itself did not lead to anything. I was just speculating that it's an early STB computer and might have caught the attention of those anticipating what the future internet experience would hold. But I see WebTV as sort of precursor to the Xbox. True, Xbox includes no browser, but...
Thanks for all the info. What I was thinking of but couldn't name was the CDi, not WebTV. I finished my article on Xbox360. The point of my article is that the Xbox 360 is more than just a games machine per se. With its integrated media extender VC1, WMVHD support/playback it's exactly...
No, this isn't another thread with an opinion. Actually I've been hunting down specs on both and have questions. It seems that Xbox's ATI processor has printed Polygonal performance, 500 million triangles per second. I haven't seen a similar rating for the PS3. Sony has only really said...
I didn't mean to try to argue whether or not it was a failure or sucess. I didn't own one, and as a consumer electronics enthusiast in that time period it would have had to trickle down to me or at least someone I knew to be a resounding sucess. But I think the "experiment" was writing on...