sorry, not a ad, just a portfolio pic
so you have any other pictures beside the one from their site?
Big Screen TV Help
- Thread starter stinkyboy
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so you have any other pictures beside the one from their site?
small tv
*Not an ad.
Here's our tv on our IKEA tv stand. Sharp Aquos 46".
LOL. I looked through all my photo files and my wife's and we have no pics of the basement. To be honest, we only hang out down there to watch movies or play XBOX. Most of the social stuff is in the kitchen and living room (which has a nice Denon and B&W system with a 42" Sony)...although I disagree with where they placed the speakers in that room.
I'll try and grab a couple shots this weekend of the whole area.
Are you in the Electronics Industry? I used to go to the CES show all the time and have a few clients still in the Biz (http://marketnews.ca/)
yeah im in the industry. and youre lucky you dont have to go to CES anymore. im gonna be there from Monday till Saturday afternoon. i dread going there every year, but its inevitable.
i usually try and take a day to go to the main show floor mainly to check the car section out. there usually isnt anything good on the main floor to spend time there, so i dont
there should be a CES page....
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Nice score, SB. I have the standard crap one from Belkin, but it has a similar spacing on a few end connections that make it nice.
yay to buy.com
I'm still gonna have questions and can't rep ya enough for the help brother!
no worries mon. its kinda like workin retail again and i enjoi talkin bout it.
a lot of people assume to pay what the sticker says in the big box stores, when it can be had for much cheaper online
my daily life consists of talking about:
1.electronics
2-bikes
3-cars
4-pot
5-food
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Dude, this D-Link Media Lounge is bad ass! Took about 5 minutes to hook up, install the software, configure the wireless, and BAM!
I don't have another HDMI cable with me, so I just used the RCA's it came with until I can get to the store tomorrow. No lag or anything, very good picture even with the lower res videos. I still need to program the Harmony.
I don't have another HDMI cable with me, so I just used the RCA's it came with until I can get to the store tomorrow. No lag or anything, very good picture even with the lower res videos. I still need to program the Harmony.
Hopefully someone here will be able to help with some questions about our new "sorta" big screen tv. Our family just got a 37" Vizio TV and DVD and XBOX looks great but cable looks horrible. We were thinking the only way to fix this is to get a digital cable box but maybe someone else knows a different technique. Also there are 3 screen size settings, normal (which doesn't fill up the whole screen but proportions are correct), wide (which stretches out the picture like crazy), and panoramic (which stretches the picture but also makes it a little more proportional). We were hoping to find a way to make it completely proportional but can't find any way to do it. Any ideas?
The Pledge is for the coffee table, but Pledging the walls isn't that bad an idea...
buy the HDMI from amazon or buy for no more than $7 each
you should have gotten a digital HD box the day you got the tv. not hooking your new TV to HD is like running a high end sports car on regular gas.
the cable box will also have some stretch modes, so play with them when you get the tv to find the right picture size.
you will find that you will either have to stretch it or deal with the bars on the side. keeping black bars on the side prematurely wear that portion of the LCD....deal with the stretching, since most programming isnt in widescreen
Use normal and get an HD box.
I have a standard cable box (because I haven't gotten one from work) but upconvert through the Onkyo. Some of the "experts" say the 606 doesn't upconvert as well as others, but it works for me. Certainly looks 10x better than running coax from the cable box to the tv.
that setup works for now...at least until you get a HD box, but as im sure you know, youre not watching true HDTV.
it is a obviously better solution that using a Svideo, composite or coax cable.
do yourself a favor and get a HD cable box, at usually a no charge from the cable company.....or spend a couple more bucks and get a dvr HD box.
the TXSR606 is a pretty good receiver and the Faroudja processor is pretty good, but still get a HD box
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I have a short stack of HD boxes at wok, but they are next gen and Comcast doesn't support them (because Comcast is running vastly outdated hardware and software, but that's a different issue). I would rather not spend the money for a crap Comcast box until they update their system, then I will use one of my own.
At least I'm not stuck with Time Warner
comcast does suck...and for other reasons besides their crap cable boxes. i didnt know they were switching their cable boxes. i was only aware of their new Docsis(sp) internet protocol. a HD box shouldnt cost you anything if you have digital cable already.I have a short stack of HD boxes at wok, but they are next gen and Comcast doesn't support them (because Comcast is running vastly outdated hardware and software, but that's a different issue). I would rather not spend the money for a crap Comcast box until they update their system, then I will use one of my own.
At least I'm not stuck with Time Warner
do you work for the dark side?
Not sure what the dark side is. My company develops software that manages OnDemand systems. We also have a group that makes video servers, and a small group that does set top client software.
<edit> My company is also developing Docsis, I think (I see marketing shwag everywhere about Docsis 2.0 or something)
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cool,sounds interesting. im assuming that why you have their newer boxes right?
the dark side is comcast.
I have a variety of boxes. Moto, Pace, Scientific Atlanta, Ono, and a few others. I don't work for a cable provider.
We have customers all over the world. Comcast has chosen to build their own software and that's why they are about a year behind most of the industry.
really? i thought that cablevision was actually behind comcast in their systems.
just curious, what puts them behind the others?
When you compare the software they run on the STB and management software they run, it's slow and clumsy. The stuff I run all day at work is so nice, then I come home and the navigation and response i painful.
The time it takes to process requests is outrageous. From the time I request content until the time the movie starts is awful. But the new stuff is bad because of the ads. Wait until you get upgraded and you have to sit through well placed ads (ff disabled)
You can always pause and rewind, but there is no ff of the ads.
i will write a lot more when i can if people are interested BUT i set up a complete wireless network with the dsm520 AND a netgearg in less than 20 minutes. the dlink is pretty cool. it does have limitations but for less than a 100bucks i think it is going to fill my needs.
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I'm pretty damn happy with it. My wife and I watched Heroes (non-HD torrent) and it looked great with no lag. Took me all of 2 minutes to configure the Harmony 720, now I have a "Watch Videos" activity. I haven't tried any hi-res videos, I will tomorrow.
Very nice.
funny you should say that cause my parents cablevision service is unbearably slow compared to my comcast. i dont watch on-demand at all at their house because it takes for god damn everWhen you compare the software they run on the STB and management software they run, it's slow and clumsy. The stuff I run all day at work is so nice, then I come home and the navigation and response i painful.
The time it takes to process requests is outrageous. From the time I request content until the time the movie starts is awful. But the new stuff is bad because of the ads. Wait until you get upgraded and you have to sit through well placed ads (ff disabled)
I don't think cablevision runs our chit, either. Charter is one of our biggest, along with Time Warner, but TW tries to adhere to the ISA standard that they developed and only they use, so it's not much of a standard.
Was finally back there for Christmas. Couple of quick shots:
Main shot
The Runco. The thing is bad ass!
Stewart perforated screen. All the front speakers are behind it.
The wife rockin' it out.
The bar at the back
Side room
Temp. controlled wine room
There is a billiard room off to the side and a Fooseball table in the lower foyer and a crazy steam shower in the lower bath. I could live down there no problem. lol.
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