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I thought it was 16" standard for studs?

Most likely there is an error in the DD 5.1 stream that causes your reciever to have to "reaquire" the signal causing the drop out. If you can try to force your reciever to 5.1 surround vs. an auto detect mode (may or may not help). When the sound is directed to the tv you most likely do not get...

I've come accross this exact situation with my cable company (cox). When we first bought our house we had major problems with cable. The cable guys would come and check every connection in our house and say the gold connectors were really bad and were the cause of the problem. We had some small...

If your dvd player takes the disc and then says no disc or other error be sure the disc is "finalized" in your camera, meaning no further recording can be done to the disc. Many dvd players will not load a disc that is not finalized.

We have the KDL 46XBR2 Sony LCD. With our cable the HD is very stunning, the SD digital channels (100-300's) are ok, and the analog stations that are supposably digital broadcast (2-99) of these the big networks are a tad below the quality of the digital channels and the smaller local channels...

Having a similar setup with the KDL46xbr2 a sony upconverting dvd and a SA cable box. I ran optical audio seperatley from the DVD player and the cable box to the reciever and HDMI video seperatly to the tv. The menus have to be set to output to optical oterwise it sends it via HDMI. I remember...

As for the venting the Sony will require a minimum clearance on all sides. I have the 46XBR2 and if I remember right the top clearance is stated at 11 inches. Check the manual for the required clearances. Manual also states not to have a cubby above the unit trapping heat.

I also have the SA8300 HD DVR. I currently have HDMI straight to the TV and optical to reciever, works great. If you want sound over the HDMI the setup menu on the SA8300 box has a setting for digital audio set it to optical or HDMI and you should be set. At least that how its working here.

I vote also for giving it away or curbeside recycling. Our 32 in tube did the same thing (origonally 800 in 1998) and got a Sony LCD. The tube went to the curb and seemed to get "Recycled". My friend just got a Sony LCD also and gave his perfectly fine 32in tube to my brother in law for free...

Wow another Best Buy horror story. I've heard alot and had some bad experiences myself at Best Buy. Its ashame, They have no concern about their customers anymore. I guess they just care about selling music cd's and video games to the kiddies nowdays. Anyone shopping there beware, read all the...

I purchased 2 sets of Cables to go component cables (12 ft) from newegg.com for 24.99 ea, also purchased a composite and s-video for 9.99 each. All have worked great so far, although the composite and s-video are not used that often. Component is used on a network media player and the other was...

I read a lenghtly thread on the AVS fourm about the same issue mounting Plasma/LCD. Many said they punched the holes and ran the cables/power. There was alot of concern about "code", to be in code you must put an actual outlet at the point of mounting and no extension cords/power cords are to be...

We bought a Sony kdl-46xbr2 LCD. We were planning on waiting till next year to buy, but our old tube tv broke. Reason 1 We have friends and relatives that have the various RPTVs that we didnt care for. Some it seemed the convergence was way off and the rainbow effect. So we decided we wanted...

You could return it and try another it depends on how much it bothers you, I have a Sony 46xbr2 we bought 3 months ago. When we first got it I didnt notice and stuck pixels but didnt really look close for them. One day while changing some audio cabling, I was really close to the set and noticed...

Exactly as I did the day I set it up. The default brightness/backlight setting was way to bright for my viewing.

Ive read at the AVS fourm about the same issue (with photos) on almost all brands of LCD, with varing intensity between 2,3,4 identical models. I have a 46XBR2 and can see the cloudy, or light leaking, with the inactive input or when changing the input select, but while watching programming...

My SA 8300 has a SATA port on the back, I do not have an external drive but my cable support website (Cox) just shows a external drive plugged into the port for expansion. I believe you have to have the drive powered ALL the time for it to work. I may just pick up a drive sometime as our DVR...

We were looing at the XBR2's either the 40 ot 46. I wanted the 40 but the wife talked me into the 46. I sure am glad we opted for the larger.

Not sure if this thread is still alive but I read somewhere that Cox is going to eventually have TIVO software on your SA box.

WOW comcast cable charges $799 for a TiVO box? I have Cox cable and they charge 9.99 a month for their HD DVR(TiVO equivlent), and if it breaks (overheats, disk goes bad) they replace it free. Works great.

My XBR2 came with a cable for VGA, Haven't tried it since the PC in in another room and really dont want to disconect everything to try maybe someday. I'm not sure either about VGA being analog. Have you played with the DRC settings (turn it off) or the DRC palette settings (the funky box with a...

I have the 46"XBR2 The manual specificly says not to use the HDMI port for a connection to a PC, although I never tried hooking the PC to my XBR2, try using the VGA port on back. (with the HDMI, did you try the picture size of "full pixel"?) Also as far a sources, when we first got ours it took...

I have the D-link 320 (the SD version) It works great except it is very slow navigating the menus and play lists with a very large collection of files(with the d-link software). Also check out 3rd party server software TVersity, it is much faster at navigating.

Are there other brands with the same feature? I am no expert on all this but. We have a Sony KDL-46XBR2 LCD panel and it has a picture size mode of "Full Pixel" I assume this would be equal to "native mode". Manual says "to set 1080i or 1080p to its original size".