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I have a 1080i TV. I have attached it to my TV via a HDMI cable. What resolution should it be set at? I have been playing around and have it at 1280x720. It seems OK, but the text is still blurry. Netflix looks great. Thanks

I just bought a HP Pavilion dv6-1253cl Notebook. It is labeled as an "Entertainment Notebook PC" and has a blu-ray drive. It has a DVI output as well. I know that it works on my TV just fine. My reciever only has digital optical input and digital cable input. No DVI or HDMI. (It is a 5 year old...

I am going to buy a laptop soon, and I also need a blu-ray player. So, why not combine the two? Is it worthwhile money-wise? I figure I need to add a blu-ray player and a decent audio card. Anything else? Thanks.

I just installed my new Samsung 1590c blu-ray player. So, I put in my old calibration disk. Is it normal that my surround speakers don't work. I have an old Onkyo 6.1 system. So far, it has been great. It doesn't have a HDMI interface, so I hooked it up with the DVD player via an optical cable...

I have a question, and I want to talk to an engineer at Vutec. I can't get through to one. Does anybody know somebody who works there? Thanks.

I was watching "Lawrence of Arabia" and it sturck me that this might have been the last "Classic" movie of that era. "Lawrence" was made in 1962. The following year "Cleopatra" came out. That was a legendary disaster. As far as I can recall, the next epic movie that came out that has had any...

I have a 4 year old HD TV that is 1080i. (55 inch Mitsu Rear Projection) I keep on look at the specs of the Blu Ray players and they all have 1080p signals. I can't tell from the specs if there is a 1080i signal as well. Do the Blu Ray players have 1080i output as another option usually? What...

Please help. My 7 year old will not stop bugging me about a Supercard for his Nintendo DS. I tried to google it, but didn't get much. What is is and what do I do with it? Thanks

What do you think of it? It looks like all it can do is stream Netflix movies. What is the advantage of this compared to other products that stream (wirelessly or not) video to a TV?

As I stroll through the store, I see more and more pre-loaded SD cards with TV shows or movies. That got me thinking. The more of those cards that get made, obviously, the cheaper they become. With 4Gb cards getting so much cheaper, it approaches the data capacity of a SD DVD. Why even bother...

I walked into Target and saw an NPower Fusion for $20 on clearance. It was an $80 toy at X-mass time. I needed a MP3 player that would play secure WMA files. (audio books) And this one was cheap and I could return it if it didn't work. I had no idea that it could play games and hold a 2 Gb SD...

Is it possible for a person to see the difference between 1080i and 1080p?

I just got a new computer that has Vista Basic as the O/S. All day long, it turns itself on and off and random intervals. I have tried to mess with the Sleep mode and the hibernation settings, but that doesn't seem to help. It is very strange. Sometimes, all I need to do is hit a key and it...

Just curious what everybody thinks and why. Blu-Ray players are still priced high enough to stop many people from buying the players. It seems to me that $199 is the price point where a lot of people just shrug their shoulders and buy. Right now, I am still happy with my 1080i upconverting DVD...

The Mitsubishi DM board repair - FixYa My 55 inch Mitsubishi CRT RPTV gave me the blinking light of death. The TV is 3.5 years old. So, I did a bit of googleing and came across the above link. $6 is much better that $1000 so I gave it a shot. What do ya know? It worked. A friend of mine is an...

Yes, you read the title right. A salesman tried to sell my friend an extended warranty that included bulb cleaning for a LCD. No, not the RPTV LCD, the kind you hang on the wall. She called me and asked me about this as she was leaving the store. She got mad at me when I asked, for the third...

Please... I have a co-worker who is convinced that the more expensive a TV is, the better it is. Currently, he won't believe that a good quality flat panel lcd and a good quality LCD RPTV or DLP can have nearly the same pic quality but different prices. Can anybody help me out with some recent...

A friend recommended "Enders Game" by Orson Scott Card. I read it and enjoyed it very much. My friend asked me if I was surprised at the ending. I wasn't. I would say that about half-way through the book, when a certain device was explained, it made the ending inevitable. But that didn't take...

I know that has been discussed before. There really is no such thing as a "High-Def" antenna, but I told that to somebody and he wouldn't believe me. Is there anything that I can show him about this? Or, am I wrong?

Well, I said I wanted a universal remote. To my surprise, she brought me one. A Harmony 688. So far, it seem pretty good, but I have to really try to customise it. What do you all think?

I am very aggravated. I had a relative visit and the children wanted to use the internet. Resistence was futile, they were from my wifes side of the family. I did stay in the room, but didn't really pay attention. Now, I can't view any embedded video without Explorer crashing and asking me if I...

This just occured to me as I was feeding my 1 year old. As that battery runs out on some of his toys, the young female voice gets lower and ends up sounding like the voice of some 40+ year old woman who smokes way too much. The phrase, "Hello Baby", takes on a totally different meaning when...

I work with somebody who can't stop saying how much better the current generation of flat panel LCDs are better than the current generation of Plasmas. He claims that flat panel LCDs have much less glare than Plasmas. I haven't really been paying that much attention lately, but is that really...

I bounced through a few sections before I decided to post this here. Maybe it belongs somewhere else, but I just can't decided. So, here goes. I was walking around my neighboorhood and noticed that somebody put up their hurricane shutters. OK, I stared a bit and then noticed that he had a new...

I am talking about the commercial with men announcing ego inflating comments through a bullhorn. The third guy is in what looks like an exotic Italian automobile. The first time I saw the commercial the guy was saying, "Because mine is only yea big." Now he is saying, "Because I am overcoming my...

Just bored

OK, so here is the deal. I just bought a cheap portable DVD player from CompUsa. http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...34206&pfp=cat3 I am going on a trip and this is to keep the kids happy on a trans atlantic flight with a long layover. So, I am looking into additional batteries. I found one...

As I sit here preparing for the next hurricane season, I was thinking about using my UPS to power my small battery powered TV. The TV comes with an adaptor. But, the beeping the UPS makes when the power goes out can be distracting. Is there any way to turn off the beeping and still use the...

I am going to buy a portable DVD player and I was wondering if I can use my VCR/DVD player as a tuner. I was thinking of using the coaxial video output from the VCR and attaching an RCA adaptor on the end of the coax and putting that into the input of the portable DVD player. FYI, yes, I...

I will be going to Fance soon on a long flight from Miami to London to Marseille. I will be visiting family. I have three boys ages 1 year, 5 and 8. Last time I went, my wife was convinced me that a portable DVD player was an unecessary expense. That was a big mistake. This time I am buying a...