Recent content by dkjos

HD significance is greater then current user share While HD users are a small percentage of current satellite customers, I think that D* and E* and Voom are forced to remain highly competitive in HD. Stores in the business of selling TVs will tell you a majority of the TVs that they are now...

Sage speculation.

With the original early November release date for the 921, firewire wasn't expected to be operational. Is there some chance that the mid December release has allowed time to make it operational? Arguing against this are the earlier suggestions that they would have it working by January or...

Closure Just to bring closure to this thread... The s-video plug had become disconnected from the back of my 6000. After reconnecting, my SD mode works again. The mass of wires at the somewhat inaccessible backside of the system is daunting. My Sony XBR is connected to 6 systems: cable, OTA...

If I understand this correctly... My HD and SD mode have worked correctly for the past 2 years. It was only after installing the tuner yesterday that I lost the SD video. If I understand the responses correctly, I might have just created a loose connection while fiddling with the 6000...

What did I do wrong? I installed the off-air analog/digital cartridge in my 6000 receiver yesterday. I then added my local off-air analog and off-air digital channels. They work fine. Although all of my HD and SD satellite channels work fine in HD mode, when I'm in SD mode I get sound but no...

Antenna types Does anyone have an opinion on the performance of amplifide antennas vs the typical passive ones? Is the antenna port for a 6000 receiver located on the 8VSB module? Is it a coaxial type?

I would have thought I initially assumed that I would be coming through the antenna in of the 6000. When I went to Radio Shack to purchase an antenna, I was inclined toward one that is attached to the top of a dish. It appeared, and the person at Radio Shack said, that you actually tap this...

I'm going to put the HD tuner module (8VSB) into my 6000 receiver in oder to get a local CBS OTA HD signal. I'm wondering how exactly the input line must be arranged. Do I need to arrange an antenna like the type that affixes to the top of a dish and sends it's signal through the dish cable to...

Why do you suppose there are two firewire ports on the 921? Is it to accomodate a display that requires firewire input as well as a recording device like the JVC HD recorder?

Is the quality of what's recorded HD on the 921 likely to be identical to that of the original feed? I've found that for SD broadcasts, the video recorded to the JVC DH30000U experiences some quality loss.

It's been reported that the DVR 921s firewire ports won't be functional initially, but may be by Q1 of 2004. For someone wanting the ability to record HD to the DH30000, is this a reason to wait on a 921 purchase, or, will this likely be a simple software upgrade? There are also reports that...