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November 3rd, 2005, 05:39 PM
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Take it to the house
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Coyotes in HD tonight. Cox channel 722.
Suns on THT-HD again also.
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November 3rd, 2005, 05:42 PM
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#152
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LD @ F.O.H.
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Originally Posted by SirChaz
Coyotes in HD tonight. Cox channel 722.
Suns on THT-HD again also.
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Come over to the darkside, Mike.
Wait a minute you can't you have a committment.  |
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November 3rd, 2005, 05:58 PM
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#153
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Meet Lyla Grace!
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Chandler, AZ
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Originally Posted by O
Come over to the darkside, Mike.
Wait a minute you can't you have a committment.
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That blows!
Although I heard today that maybe in January, DTV will be getting TNT HD...along with a few others.
But it still sucks now 
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November 3rd, 2005, 06:04 PM
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LD @ F.O.H.
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Originally Posted by Chandler Mike
That blows!
Although I heard today that maybe in January, DTV will be getting TNT HD...along with a few others.
But it still sucks now
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I'm just playing with you. 
When MPEG4 finally plays out it will be a good thing.
Until then, I'm liking where I am. |
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November 3rd, 2005, 06:08 PM
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#155
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Take it to the house
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Originally Posted by Chandler Mike
That blows!
Although I heard today that maybe in January, DTV will be getting TNT HD...along with a few others.
But it still sucks now
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I know how you feel. I was there last season.
You are welcome to stop by.
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November 4th, 2005, 11:59 AM
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#156
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You know what ASFN needs?
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Well, it looks like they are pushing back the digital conversion of TV until at least 2009.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051104/...MwBHNlYwM3Mzg-
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Lawmakers gave broadcasters until April 7, 2009, to end their traditional analog transmissions. The so-called "hard date" was included in a sweeping budget bill.
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Last edited by dreamcastrocks; November 4th, 2005 at 12:03 PM.
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November 4th, 2005, 12:19 PM
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It's all about the Beat.
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Phoenix, az
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Originally Posted by dreamcastrocks
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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November 4th, 2005, 02:47 PM
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#158
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Renz's Avatar will die!!
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Tempe, AZ
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Sed
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November 4th, 2005, 02:49 PM
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Renz's Avatar will die!!
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Eh, Answered my own question (thank you google )
Toshiba To Launch SED TV's
David Richards - Thursday, 25 August 2005
Toshiba is set to partner with Canon in a $2.5 billion dollar venture to produce SED TV's. The first product due in late 2006 will be a 50" model.
Toshiba is dropping all Plasma production. Instead the company is set to partner with Canon in a $2.5 billion dollar venture to produce a new generation of flat panel displays using SED technology
SED technology was first shown in 1998 as a relatively tiny 10in prototype. By comparison the first SED (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) TVs will go on sale in Japan in the first half of 2006 will start at 50in. SED technology produces flat panels with a unique combination of factors: large size, high resolution, low power consumption, light weight and thin profile.The SED consists of a glass plate mounted with electron emitters. Positioned next to it is another glass plate coated with a fluorescent substance. Between the two glass plates is a vacuum. Application of voltage causes the emission of electrons. Some of these electrons are accelerated by the voltage applied between the glass plates and collide with the fluorescent-coated glass plate, causing light to be emitted.
Since it is a spontaneous light display similar to a CRT, it maintains levels of brightness and colour performance, as well as a wide angle of visibility, said to be on a par with a CRT. Larger screens can also be produced by simply increasing the number of electron emitters in accordance with the required number of pixels.
Although the first screens will appear as early as 2006, mass production will not begin until 2007 when the two companies expect to produce around 75,000 units. SED will enter a crowded technological battleground. As well as the established LCD and Plasma, it will encounter OLED (organic light emitting diode, currently being developed by Samsung and Seiko Epson amongst others) and at least three different projection systems: DLP, SXRD and 3LCD. |
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November 4th, 2005, 04:47 PM
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NFC West Champs!
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Anyone know if you can output the Cox DVR box to a DVD recorder? My DVR gets full fast and I'd like to dump some.
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November 4th, 2005, 04:56 PM
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LD @ F.O.H.
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Originally Posted by D-Dogg
Anyone know if you can output the Cox DVR box to a DVD recorder? My DVR gets full fast and I'd like to dump some.
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Although I don't have a recorder yet, yes you can.
The copy to VCR function is where you would do it from. |
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November 4th, 2005, 10:41 PM
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Take it to the house
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Originally Posted by D-Dogg
Anyone know if you can output the Cox DVR box to a DVD recorder? My DVR gets full fast and I'd like to dump some.
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Get some composite RCA cables and plug them into the input on a VCR or PC tuner card.
On the DVR plug the cables into the VCR connectors.
In the menu you can record to VCR.
Just record from that recorder once you start it.
If you use picture-in-picture you can see what is going out.
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November 8th, 2005, 01:09 AM
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Registered User
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Hey fella's, just wanted to chime in again about my ongoing attempt to get my new 55" LCD Sony Grand Wega showing the best picture possible. 
Okay...you may recall me commenting earlier in this thread how after I made the switch to COX last month and after having and leaving DirecTV for the last year, I was unbelievably impressed with COX HD. However the analog sucked. So back to DirecTV we went with a brand spanking new HD-DVR Tivo unit thanks to DirecTV "customer retention service." Then after a few days...I went on to say in this thread that DirecTV's HD was not as good as COX. Okay, brings me to this...
After several phone calls and quality conversation with DirecTV's tech dept. to try to better my reception, they finally sent out a service tech. Diagnosis...bad HD-DVR-Tivo Box plus the original installer did NOT do a good job. The new tech I got took the time to figure out what was wrong. First he totally agreed our picture was not as sharp as it should be with the new HD-DVR box and HD satelite system previously installed. So after checking connections, signal strength, etc...he determined it was a bad HD-DVR box. New one is on the way, and I should get it Thursday according to DTV.
Also he fixed a lot of loose connections and wires on the outside of the house that the original installer didn't install correctly. HD reception is now much better, however, regular channels were still horrible. So new HD-DVR on the way. Hopefully, the new unit will take care of the problem.
btw...I witnessed the "original installer" serioulsy drop the HD-DVR unit getting it out of the truck. I didn't tell the new installer this in order to get a "true" assesment of what he thought was the problem. This new guy seemed way more like he knew what he was doing.
Anyways...the best news is that this installer was actually able to get the local Phoenix channels in High Definition by using the "over the air" antenna DTV supplied me with last month. Apparently, the original DTV installer didn't have a clue or didn't care so much as he barely even tried to get local HD reception. In fact he commented to me that I would never get the local channels and it was a waste of his time. He tried blameing it on the fact we lived out in Gilbert, and was too far for the signal to reach my house. Yeah right! The new installer got it in no time, and I am a freakin' happy camper!!!  Monday Night Football has never looked better!
Now I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hope the new Tivo unit shows the regular channels better. Not looking for "perfection" as no doubt they'll never look as good as HD reception, but please...don't be horrible. 
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November 8th, 2005, 05:02 AM
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#164
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Meet Lyla Grace!
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Chandler, AZ
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Originally Posted by AZ Shocker
Hey fella's, just wanted to chime in again about my ongoing attempt to get my new 55" LCD Sony Grand Wega showing the best picture possible.
Okay...you may recall me commenting earlier in this thread how after I made the switch to COX last month and after having and leaving DirecTV for the last year, I was unbelievably impressed with COX HD. However the analog sucked. So back to DirecTV we went with a brand spanking new HD-DVR Tivo unit thanks to DirecTV "customer retention service." Then after a few days...I went on to say in this thread that DirecTV's HD was not as good as COX. Okay, brings me to this...
After several phone calls and quality conversation with DirecTV's tech dept. to try to better my reception, they finally sent out a service tech. Diagnosis...bad HD-DVR-Tivo Box plus the original installer did NOT do a good job. The new tech I got took the time to figure out what was wrong. First he totally agreed our picture was not as sharp as it should be with the new HD-DVR box and HD satelite system previously installed. So after checking connections, signal strength, etc...he determined it was a bad HD-DVR box. New one is on the way, and I should get it Thursday according to DTV.
Also he fixed a lot of loose connections and wires on the outside of the house that the original installer didn't install correctly. HD reception is now much better, however, regular channels were still horrible. So new HD-DVR on the way. Hopefully, the new unit will take care of the problem.
btw...I witnessed the "original installer" serioulsy drop the HD-DVR unit getting it out of the truck. I didn't tell the new installer this in order to get a "true" assesment of what he thought was the problem. This new guy seemed way more like he knew what he was doing.
Anyways...the best news is that this installer was actually able to get the local Phoenix channels in High Definition by using the "over the air" antenna DTV supplied me with last month. Apparently, the original DTV installer didn't have a clue or didn't care so much as he barely even tried to get local HD reception. In fact he commented to me that I would never get the local channels and it was a waste of his time. He tried blameing it on the fact we lived out in Gilbert, and was too far for the signal to reach my house. Yeah right! The new installer got it in no time, and I am a freakin' happy camper!!! Monday Night Football has never looked better!
Now I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hope the new Tivo unit shows the regular channels better. Not looking for "perfection" as no doubt they'll never look as good as HD reception, but please...don't be horrible. |
That's awesome...as I said before, I was surprised at how bad you sad the picture quality was with DTV, because their resolution is better than Cable's.
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November 9th, 2005, 09:49 AM
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#165
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It's all about the Beat.
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Location: Phoenix, az
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can someone confirm whether or not an HDMI cable is worth buying? I use component cables now. Am I missing out?
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