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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...

If there were a provision for moving the digital copy directly to DVDR, there would likely be restrictions. All DVDR's have analog inputs only, meaning only analog copies, in real time, can be recorded. That means no restrictions. There is no way for your PVR to know whether it is hooked to a...

It sounds like they used the in-house wiring for both cable and sat, possibly by multiplexing it together. That is indeed a legitimate approach to wiring, and makes a lot more sense than rewiring your house. The DVDR will not accept sat signals directly, they must be demodulated to...

The name still applies. FOX (Newscorp, actually) owns and operates both stations. Many large markets contain a FOX/UPN Newscorp-owned duopoly.

8PSK is a modulation technique, a method of parsing a bitstream so it can be transported and eventually demodulated at the other end. MPEG-4 is an encoding compression technique, a method of making ones and zeros out of analog video, and then throwing away that is perceived as redundant, and...

Actually, that does make some sense, ironic as it sounds. If you scan through commercials there is a period of time that this takes that no one can really take advantage of, unless you believe studies that report that people get nearly the same effect from a watching a scanned commercial as they...

They do that not to keep commercials from being too loud, but as a technical restriction that keeps the audio modulation from affecting the video, which is something nobody wants. All broadcasters (well, most) are pretty vigilant about modulation levels, because it affects their product...

I've been seeing this lately as well.

CC actually lives at line 21, which is in the vertical interval and not a part of active video. Only 484 of the 525 lines of NTSC carry active video. The rest is devoted to sync, burst, and ancillary data. Overscanning is kind of a legacy issue from days when displaying exact safe areas was...

One reason it worked well then and now doesn't, is automation. Automated master control can be frame accurate, meaning if the switching between program elements can be perfect, as it is basically the same as a non-linear edit decision list. If the prep is done so that the last frame of a program...

I have a 60XS and DISH, and the PQ isn't wonderful, but nothing about moving from a 36" XBR to a 60" set made it unwatchable, in fact it is still an improvement. There are tweaks that will minimize the problems, although I don't know if your model has individual preset tweaks for each input or...