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What's a "DVC crossover"? I would think a DVC sub would have two crossovers. And either of them could be used for a non DVC sub.

Yes. It actually depends on the impedance of your speakers, but for normal 8 Ohm home speakers, you can use 16 gauge for 35 feet. So, of course 14 gauge will work too, although it may be an unnecessary extra expense. And when you ask about performance, you're really asking the same question...

She doesn't want a screen on the wall but she's ok with the pinball machines?! The main advantage of permanent mount is that the screen is tensioned so it will have a smoother surface. There are some tensioned electric screens too- but they are much more expensive. Also, even with a...

If you'll only be 8' away then you're not going to want a very big screen, so this will help keep the price down for you. If you're handy, some inexpensive DIY screens are done by painting (with special mixtures or screen paint) or making your own screen canvas. Both of those are easily under...

It sounds like you've got a nice system brewing! I'm not familiar with either of the speakers you're debating, however I'll make an educated guess that the CLR 3000 is designed to match the BP7001, and the CLR 2500 is best with the BP7002. I'm basing this off of the midrange driver size as...

Since raising the center speaker to ear level is usually not possible, slightly tilting the speaker up so that the tweeter points toward your ears has a similar effect. Tilting might even be more effective than boosting the center channel a few dB. The reason for this is because the sound...

Are you sure the dialog is only quieter in loud battle scenes? I'm thinking the center would always be too soft- not just some of the time. Try switching over to stereo mode to see about how loud the dialog should be. If you think your center channel was "severely" drowned out, I would check...

If you do a little searching about upscaling you'll find many posts on this subject- in fact I had a similar thread about a week ago. In your particular case, if your DVD player has upscaling ability, then you will want to try sending a 480i from the DVD player (to use the TV's upscaler) and...

Thanks Rich, that answered all of my questions, and confirmed my suspicions.

I too have an X1 and I'm using the VGA breakout cable to send in a Progressive signal over component. I did not purchase the special S-Video breakout cable so that I can compare with using the X1's deinterlacer instead of my DVD player's. I wonder though which would be better. Something I have...

Trey's at it again- babbling to whoever's willing to listen...and referring to myself in the third person. Here's a stab in the dark to answer my own question. I think in an ideal world, we would never use the progressive scan or upconversion features on our DVD player, and we would all have...

I would think that deinterlacing is an entirely separate issue from upconversion. For example, if you send a 480p signal to an HDTV, it will still upconvert it to 720p or 1080i (but deinterlacing is already done). However, you bring up a parallel question- why should I use my $100 DVD player's...

I don't really understand why DVD upconversion is necessary: Why would a $200 DVD player be better at upconverting than a $3000 TV? Wouldn't it make more sense for the TV to do the upconversion?!

To answer your second question, I think some DVD players lock into 16:9 when they upconvert. Using 480p like you are doing may be the best solution for 4:3 material.

I would try contacting one of these places to see if they can help you find what you need: Viewsonic Contact Information Davis Parts

Walmart has some inexpensive speaker stands for

Perhaps you can ask your insurance company to put a special document with your claim saying that if your unit dies within a specified amount of time, then they will replace it. Infocus may be able to tell you the average life expectancy of that model, which may be a good starting point. The...

Some things to think about: 1. The closer the projector is to the screen, the more area you have to walk around in the room without your head popping up into the screen. (With ceiling mount obviously.) So consider that together with Neil's comment when thinking about zoom. Perhaps some...

Rob, I think you missed my point. It might be true that Monster cables suck, or even that any cable from Best Buy does too, but neither of those were proved by my test. What was proved, was that on that particular setup viewed by those particular people the cables did not make a noticeable...

First off, once your projector is set up properly you may rarely even need to touch its remote other than to turn it on or off, so even in the worse case if you have to move a little bit to do it, I wouldn't stress too much about it. The remotes that you want to make sure you can point in a...

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Impedance matching comes into play when you want to hook up multiple speakers to the same amplifier channel. Whether or not you need impedance matching is determined by how many speakers you want to hook up to an amplifier channel, and also the load that your amplifier can handle. Suppose that...

Thanks John for the detailed explanation. Very informative. In light of the price of the tools required (pun intended), I think I'll leave measuring the screen gain to the professionals. I like your suggestion for comparing screens/paints. I'll try to implement that before I make my selection...

Thanks for your input. My projector is X1 and my ambient lighting will be somewhat controlled. My only window in the room is a sliding glass door with a 3rd window panel, and I'm waiting to get blinds/curtains until I see how dark I need it to be after painting my screen. (With the assumption...

Hey Mike, I didn't realize until now that if you don't specify your city in your profile, then apparently your "local time" gets set to London Time. My mistake.

Yeah, you definitely should upgrade the wire. (Although it's unlikely that the wire is what caused your particular problem. The most common problem I've heard of with that system using the packaged wire is that at high volumes the AMP overheats and shuts off.) Probably generic 16 gauge would be...

omg, that's too funny. Mine is "Lady Boxwood"

I used to have a pixelation problem and the reason turned out to be a poopy progressive scan output from my cheap DVD player. Although, my problem was throughout the entire image, and extremely noticeable in stills (like DVD menus).

How could one go about measuring the gain of their own screen (or painted wall)?

Has anyone with experience in different kinds of screen paints ever painted half of their screen to compare side by side? In particular, has anyone compared goo side by side with behr silverscreen (or similar) in a mostly dark room? (I'm considering doing the 70% silverscreen/30% pearlessence...