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  1. colofan

    45 GB HD DVD Tested.. bye bye Blu Ray

    So does anyone have a calculation that if a movie was 1080p60 what the speace requirement would be? Just looking at the frame rate being 2 1/2 times higher than the current release would lead one to increase capacity that much? I know that compression could make a big difference here.
  2. colofan

    DVDtalk- "BluRay is a bust"

    Of course in a cynical way the less capable videotape format mat won the battle from a picture quality aspect. Also deciding on which format is the best based on one player from one brand seems like a reach... Just don't buy the samsung...... I have read elswhere that the component output was...
  3. colofan

    Orlando Mpeg-4 Local HD's Are Live

    Well Denver affilate for NBC has had it for a while. http://www.9news.com/weather/radar/ They also were one of the first in having a HD helicopter for traffic and such.
  4. colofan

    No Signal When A/c Kicks On!! Help!!!

    Did he check the voltage drop on the circuit when it was under load?
  5. colofan

    Blu-ray Hits Best Buy Stores!

    Well I went into BB yesterday and that machine was locked up so I power cycled it and started to play and got locked up again. I push the eject button and someone had installed a computer generated dvd -r disk and was scratched really bad. I walked away...no wonder I never buying anything from...
  6. colofan

    future use of MPEG 4

    Small nitpik but everything is analog it is digitally encoded and decoded...think transponder per satellite.
  7. colofan

    Blu-ray Hits Best Buy Stores!

    So the only format that is close to this is the 48 FPS of IMAX correct? I thought that some of the film production company were chaning over to digital 60 fps but that is probably a rumor.
  8. colofan

    Blu-ray Hits Best Buy Stores!

    Thanks for the details of how they implement. Is it in the standard that if you have a video source that was 1080p60 that a future disc could have this? Future proofing is always a dangerous deal :)
  9. colofan

    Blu-ray Hits Best Buy Stores!

    So is the 1080p 24,30 or 60 fps???? Makes one wonder it it is 60 frames per second I could see the price difference....
  10. colofan

    CompUSA pushing BR

    So why write a review on the sammy when you don't have an HD disc? At that point I couldn't care less about the rest since the only reason for buying it as an early adopter is to se blu-ray. Too me really weird to spend the time to type something up that is really incomplete.
  11. colofan

    My AT9 Installer

    Theft of signal is just that theft nothing more nothing less. Just because you"get away" with this does not mean that is right but that is between you and whomever to decide. If some is shoplifting food for and elderly person that can't afford food does that making taking the food right...
  12. colofan

    Are you a potential HD DVD or BR customer waiting in the side lines? Why?

    Just waiting until the first dual player is available...beta never again
  13. colofan

    The List of Blu-Ray Disc titles

    All I want for a x-mas is a player that plays both :)
  14. colofan

    No Signal When A/c Kicks On!! Help!!!

    Too small of wire gauge so voltage is dropping too far for your unit. I would be concerned about it big time. Has the circuit breaker been changed by a previous owner? Get a volt meter insert into the socket that you have the unit plug into and then turn on the A/C good odds are you will see...
  15. colofan

    New Channels???

    Is there anywhere on the D* website to vote for channels both current and future?
  16. colofan

    Need some help fixing and installer mistake.

    Processing during surround sound have modes that can put center channel information into the front left and right speakers instead of the center. I double checked on the KEF website and they state 15-120 watt amplifier size and even though a larger amp is usually a good thing with a...
  17. colofan

    Need some help fixing and installer mistake.

    Also make sure you don't have phantom center channel on as well.
  18. colofan

    Daily loss of satellite...

    Well the multiswitch would be the first susupect since you get no signal from any of the 3 LNB's. Bypass the multiswitch when the failure mode is occuring to see if that is it. I had one that was tempature sensitive and when I replaced it everything has worked great since.
  19. colofan

    Six new titles released this week

    Ilya you mentioned grainy picture to me the resolution is less important than the signal to noise ratio that digital can offer and that the frame rate is usually higher than 24 to me both really big differences.
  20. colofan

    XBox and HD DVD

    Cost would be the only issue that I could think that would cause them to not provided it.
  21. colofan

    HD "movers" beware

    The only problem is they can't turn off the LA DNS feed unless they have a DVR replacement? Or are they going to get an exemption and shift all the DVR's to east coast feed. Makes no sense to me?
  22. colofan

    The List of HD DVD titles

    Small detial though is that film is also shot at 24 fps which during an action sequence can get a bit blurry. Resoultion isn't the only paramer to look at for example dynamic range would be another not so good thing about film.
  23. colofan

    Here is what im seeing going on in yr 2009

    Well with DVR's becoming more and more available to people the whole local channel broadcast from a moeny standpoint might be moot anyway. Except for local sports and news I see the OTA market being marginalized much like radio is now.
  24. colofan

    Where the Heck Is HD Hockey?

    Does anyone know if tonight's game is in HD. Yes it is pretty sad that we can have a baby channel but not even have the NHL playoffs in HD....bandwidth ha ha
  25. colofan

    So, Is the HMC Vaporware?

    If they had subcontracted it to a computer company (HP,Dell,IBM...) all this could have been done very quickly and with support for updates as well. After all the only real issue is bringing in the satellite feed everything else is nothing more than standard server stuff.