mrpoindexter
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| Is $18,000 enough for a high end HT? Why buy a Rolex when you could instead buy another HDTV set? | |
| Is $18,000 enough for a high end HT? Slappy,Most of the people I talk to are in agreement that "Home Theater" means a projector when you are talking about high-end. Unfortunately, a TV/VCR combo will be marketed as a home theater when in fact it is a TV/VCR combo.The wattage doesn't ... | |
| scaler vs. doubler- what is the difference???? A scaler is also VERY useful on a CRT. One nice thing you can do is scale all your NTSC video to the sweet spot of your CRT projector. | |
| Are there any receivers that have dual 12 inputs DBX,The Adcom GTP-880 just started shipping and it has inputs for both DVD-Audio and SACD. The SACD input is a DB-25, while the DVD-Audio inputs are 6 RCA connectors.I just got mine this past week, but I haven't put it into my system yet - that is... | |
| Is $18,000 enough for a high end HT? Unclejeff, you are thinking that the industry WILL sort it out. The problem with that is that there is no such thing as an uncopyable digital file. You can make a digital file no more uncopyable than you can make water not wet.DVD had copy protect... | |
| Is $18,000 enough for a high end HT? Slappy, I wouldn't say that I cannot appreciate the film on a system like yours, but I enjoy it much more on a system like mine.My best friend has the BP3000TL and CLR3000. Keeping up with his bass is why I upgraded from my Infinity Kappa 9/kappa ... | |
| High End HT Well, what more would you get? I have a home theater that qualifies as high-end, while my best friend has a more real-world system.My best friend has the Def Tech BP3000TL, the CLR3000 and I don't recall his surrounds. No sub in his system, but no... | |
| Is $18,000 enough for a high end HT? If you are smart about spending your $$$, you will have a kick ass system.First off, no need to spend a fortune on the video path.NEC XG-110LC $3500 usedHome Theater PC with Immersive H3DII - less than $2000 newDa-Lite 48"x84" 1.5 gain screen. Do ... | |
| So what sub are you using for your Home theater? I do not run a subwoofer at all in my system, but my mains can put out enough bass that adding a sub would decrease my bass output and response by bleeding the LFE track from my mains. I just run all channels as large and feed the LFE back into th... | |
| scaler vs. doubler- what is the difference???? A line doubler takes interlaced video, like NTSC's 480i signal, and de-interlaces it into a progressive scan 480p signal. There are HD line doublers for taking 1080i and converting it into 1080p, but I think you are looking more at NTSC input.A sc... | |
| Any interest in a Home Theater PC Specification? An $1100 home theater PC will look a lot better than a $10000 DVD player/video scaler combo.You are rolling the DVD player and scaler into one unit, but are not using it for an audio pre-amp. The HTPC isn't going to top a low end stereo receiver i... | |
| Do you lose enhancements if using TiVo? Nrenter, while what you say is true for stand alone TiVo boxes, it is incorrect for the integrated TiVo boxes like the Sony SAT-T60, the Hughes HDVR2 and the Philips DSR6000, which record with NO LOSS of picture quality whatsoever and are able to ... | |
| Any interest in a Home Theater PC Specification? If you want the best video quality, you need to get an Immersive Holo3DGraph card. Preferably the new H3DII that is coming out now. It will act as a capture card via S-video, composite, component and SDI. The H3DII has the newest faroudja chip, us... | |
| Do you lose enhancements if using TiVo? Tivo outputs the same resolution all the time, NTSC 480i. The difference in recording quality from stand alone TiVo boxes is that there are greater compression artifacts like pixelation and macro-blocking when going to a lower quality.The TiVo tha... | |
| Picture/sound out of sync? Scalers will typically delay the video about 2 frames from what I have seen. It cannot operate in real time because you need this frame plus the next to see how to de-interlace the video properly for 3:2 pulldown. Even scaling alone will likely ha... |