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Last night I bought an LG 42LE5400 LED at Best Buy for a steal along with their free xbox offer and knew about the IPS panel vs. VA panel differences and requested one with the IPS because it is supposed to be a better panel but in my haste I didn't check the box until I got home and realized I...

I have a six month old Dell XPS with Vista Home Premium that has begun, as of yesterday, to not want to stay in sleep mode. It will initially but it seems like something "wakes it up". I have not messed with anything other than I did a manual virius scan yesterday for the first time with...

Due to all the financial uncertainty, We have been considering refinancing our hybrid 7/1 ARM into a 30 yr. fixed. It doesn't reset for another three years but I wonder where rates will be then. Presently the rate is 5.125% but will adjust up one percent in the eighth year if I don't refi...

We have been trying to lower our monthly bills for some time now and yesterday I got a call from Charter with an offer I felt I couldn't refuse: digital cable with the exact same package I have now ( every movie channel they offer plus the HD tier with DVR), 5Meg internet, and telephone service...

I could have just as well posted this in the movies forum but since his first love was music I felt this forum would be more appropriate. I saw "Smokey And The Bandit" more times than I care to remember and have had "East Bound And Down" stuck in my head for days afterward, come on admit it...

Last friday, my father was hit by a car as he walked out of a Wal-Mart. He said he looked both ways and the only car was stopped at the top of an isle, as he was walking across, she accelerates into him claiming that he was in a blind spot caused by her roof pillar (!). The result of this is a...

Anyone here have any experience working on ice makers? I have a three and a half y.o. Amana side-by-side that has recently stopped making ice. When the bail is down the ice maker makes a creaky noise and the ice that it made just freezes at the top without dropping. I had to break the cubes off...

Does anyone know why I am receiving so many "Microsoft has encountered an error and must close" errors when on the internet? I thought it was just my old computer but I have also gotten the errors at work. It seems this is a new thing, I cannot recall ever getting these messages before.

Coming off the heels of the BD/HD-DVD format wars, Sony enters another pissing contest:Battle brewing over eliminating all those wires - CES 2008 - MSNBC.com

Anyone else catch this? Finally a new, modern Christmas special, starring Shrek, Fiona, Donkey and the rest of the characters from the movies. My niece is visiting and she watched multiple times, thanks to tivo. I sat and watched most of it, funny stuff, especially Puss telling his version of...

Ok, so who watched this besides me and my wife? I had heard that it might make some couples cringe so I went into it with some trepidation and I am pleased HBO has another great show on their hands. It was at times hard to watch but my wife said that we could see ourselves in all three couples...

We've had an inground pool for three years and have always had a frog problem during the spring months that lasts for about a month. This year with recent rains they have re-emerged with a vengence and make sitting out on our screened in porch a test of patience, not to mention having to dump...

It is, once again time to start shopping for a new digital camera. I now have a Canon A85, 4 MP, 3x zoom, it still works fine but while taking picutures at my neices prom walk out it became glaringly obvious that it suffers from too much lag time. On some shots, by the time it had focused under...

After ten years and change of marriage, my wife and I found out last night she is pregnant. I know, this happens everyday but to explain the title of this thread a little, let me explain. We have been trying for some time and she underwent a laproscopic procedure five years ago where it was...

It doesn't seem to be compatible, so will my Sky Fi2 stop working? What about all the receivers that have XM? Will the connect and play antenna even work?

I tried to access the forum yesterday at work and all day it seemed to be down. I again tried once I got home and got the same thing, I don't see any mention of it here so it appears I was the only one since I did see postings from yesterday around the time I was trying to get on. Anyone else...

My 74 year old mother-in-law gave me her year old computer because she figured out quickly that she was not a computer person and I am having trouble booting it up. I think she repeatedly turned it off incorrectly and now it has lost its mind. It keeps cycling through the "your computer was not...

My wife and I got her mother a DVD player for Christmas and her tv has very few inputs to use because it is an older, console RCA. It does have an audio/video input but no way to switch to that input becuse the original remote is long gone and there are no front panel connections. I seem to...

(with apologies to Adam for almost verbatim stealing his title ) I am trying to get more output from my sub and was thinking of trying to place it beside our seating position instead of corner front but need a longer cable to do so. Is there a maximum length? I found a 25ft. but have been...

My wife got me an mp3 player for my birthday and decided against an I-Pod due to cost and the salesman saying it was more fragile than what she ended up with, the Best Buy brand Insignia 2G sports model because she thought I might like it to work out with and do yardwork. This thing is BB's...

Need to part with my beloved HGS 10, it just doesn't work in my new HT. It is piano black finish in MINT condition, has the VII amp upgrade , and comes with two grilles. It is a very good music sub and works well with HT in the proper space. Original box and paper work, $750 plus shipping.

My wife and I are planning a trip to Tampa/Clearwater and are trying to figure out the water temps in the gulf and pools. Anyone can look at the temps and forecasts to see that daytime temps are still reasonabily warm but I do know that low temps have been in the high 50's some nights. We had a...

I haven't seen an official Criminal Minds thread so I thought I would start one. This was the show we tivo'ed while watching Lost and watched while Lost was on many of its "breaks". We really got in the story lines last season but we missed the season premiere last week due to not remembering to...

My wife and I have just returned from a ten year anniversary trip to Las Vegas and much has changed since our last visit ten years ago. The Paris hotel/casino was very opulent and the food was unreal but I doubt we'll be going back anytime soon. It seems Vegas is no longer a cheap place to go...

I have a three year old tivo that has never failed me, until today. We had a power outage and now I get a message " welcome, powering up" but goes no further. I re-booted it by powering it down and back up but nothing has happened. Any ideas?

My wife bought an 02 325i under warranty last year and now needs some warranty work done as well as replacement of the driver's side turn signal/marker lamp. Having never dealt with BMW before, we tend to let them do all the work least we void the "certified pre-owned"warranty. They never tell...

Last night We sat down to watch a DVD and the audio was playing but there was no video. There was a black screen and some flashing present where there is usually blue screen until the disc loads. I have had this happen once before and the fix was the HDMI cable had worked loose behind the DVD...

My sister-in-law calls and says that the keyboard stopped responding on her E-machines Windows XP computer so she did what everybody would do in that situation;) she blew air through an opening in the tower (not sure where) without opening the case and now the tower will not power up at all...

I've got an old Yamaha RXV-2092 receiver that I want to use to power four sets of speakers with impedence matching volume controls. I'll be using a hub, but was thinking I would run patio speakers to A and everything else to B. What effect would this have?

I have always heard it is better to let the lamps in a LCD/DLP display warm up fully for about twenty minutes before you turn the tv off. This is supposed to help prolong lamp life and most of the time this is not an issue but there have been times when I have wanted to turn my LCD R.P. on just...