Recent content by TyroneShoes

Are we really sure it won't actually "spin up"? Or is it just a matter of it not being formatted in a manner that Windoze can mount? Have you tried viewing it within a disk utility program to make sure it is really not being seen? And don't worry about the satellite police garnishing your...

You may be getting questionable advice. "Plumb", is a myth. Plumb is only an arbitrary direction determined by gravity, and gravity has no bearing on where a free-standing dish points towards the sky. The dish has no earthly idea whether the mast is plumb or not, nor does it care. It points...

Regardless, the fact remains that I do. I shouldn't. It's very dark, and deals with horrible crimes that I should find offensive and depressing. The subject matter regularly shows women in great peril, which I don't like to see, and sometimes children in great peril, which I really don't like...

Why? Because they can (and the others can't). FOX uses an MPEG/AC3 splicer from Terayon, which allows affils to upload their logo to FOX, who then downloads it to their local splicer and muxes it into the local station output stream as a key. It could be controlled manually or by automation...

In the first place, vague anecdotal evidence, which seems to fly in the face of empirical evidence and the concensus of owners in the forums, holds little water. I typically don't bother commenting on other folks posts, but when the ideas are just so wacky and out of touch with reality as are...

Maybe as a policy on consumer gear. Ironically, Sony has been doing it on their pro cameras for many years. It involves identifying a dead/stuck pixel, and addressing it with the data from an adjacent pixel, which all but makes it invisible. This is likely not something that can be done in the...

Maybe as a policy on consumer gear. Ironically, Sony has been doing it on their pro cameras for many years. It involves identifying a dead/stuck pixel, and addressing it with the data from an adjacent pixel, which all but makes it invisible. This is likely not something that can be done in the...

If you really don't know, or even if you just think you know, then please refrain from answering. This does a real disservice to folks who are trying to learn the truth. What was true of last year's models, or what was rumored, is not at all relevant. Below are the real, actual facts regarding...

Purely hype. If you are more than about 4 picture heights away, you can't see the resolution improvement, meaning the damned thing would have to be about 200 feet on the diagonal or better for folks behind home plate to even see the difference. They should put that money towards making the games...

Just curious...how many hours did the first one last for?

That provides absolutely no benefit. All digital signals are immediately converted to analog once inside the set anyway. There is no advantage to doing the conversion there rather than converting to analog in the STB or PVR or DVD and connecting by component. None. It is also unlikely that an...

I recommend a minimum native rez of 768 x 1386. It will display 720 or 1080 in all its glory (768 is still higher than the perceived rez of either 720p or 1080i as acquired and broadcast) and the pixels are small enough to be all but invisible at a viewing distance of 3 times the picture height...

The primary thing is not signal level, it is the ratio of reflected signal strength vs. direct signal strength. Level itself is not an issue like it is with analog reception, as digital stations can be successfully extracted from beneath the noise floor. The reason stations are difficult to...

Feedback refers to a looping phenomenon where something output cycles around to the input. Multipath is not feedback, it refers to receiving a desired signal from more than one direction, typically caused by reflection from nearby structure. It causes ghosting in analog reception, and loss of...

I would prefer that they leave us 721 users the f*** alone, and not try to implement NBR on our 721s. Two reasons: DISH has a habit of shooting itself in the foot even when up revving the simplest of OS changes...a comprehensive up rev might just choke a 721 into boat-anchor mode; and NBR on...