Re: [H] HD questions

2007-10-19 Thread Brian Weeden
Oops forgot - RIAA is only music. MPAA is movies. Those are the two big ones right now but they are mainly going after P2P, you know the idiots still using Limewire or the like. On 10/19/07, Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't do movies. Those I rent. TV shows are pretty much a g

Re: [H] HD questions

2007-10-19 Thread Brian Weeden
I don't do movies. Those I rent. TV shows are pretty much a grey area, at least the networks. HBO and Showtime pay stuff is illegal. I haven't heard of any cracking down on end users downloading TV shows except for the pay (HBO/Showtime) stuff. IMHO not a problem, especially if you go through a

Re: [H] HD questions

2007-10-19 Thread Winterlight
At 02:00 PM 10/19/2007, you wrote: Once you go HD yo will never go backespecially for sports. That said, I have recently switched all of my TV viewing to bittorrent except for sports. You can find any show you want. What with all the law suits do you ever worry about RIAA? -- Brian We

Re: [H] Did Firefox CPU usage spike for anyone else recently?

2007-10-19 Thread Brian Weeden
I am pretty sure it is something to do with the TCP/IP stack in windows. I am getting weird timeout messages and stuff. But the Ubuntu and Mac laptops are just fine for both streaming music and surfing at the same time on the same network. Heck, the Ubuntu laptop is using -g while all the others

Re: [H] Did Firefox CPU usage spike for anyone else recently?

2007-10-19 Thread j maccraw
I assume playing songs from LAN is fine when not browsing then? Firefox maybe maxing out your link somehow. Have you tried browsing with IE to a safe but content rich site? Do you get stuttering if playing mp3 while transferring a large file across the wifi? If so I'd be looking into a link str

Re: [H] HD questions

2007-10-19 Thread Brian Weeden
Once you go HD yo will never go backespecially for sports. That said, I have recently switched all of my TV viewing to bittorrent except for sports. You can find any show you want. -- Brian Weeden On 10/19/07, Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 01:27 PM 10/19/2007, you wrote: > >

RE: [H] HD questions

2007-10-19 Thread Winterlight
At 01:27 PM 10/19/2007, you wrote: If your resolution is set so in your box you mean in my video card? ... do AIW's pass through HD content from a cable box? I don't know I do know the video card supports HD, and the monitor supports HD... I just assume that if you are bringing it in

RE: [H] HD questions

2007-10-19 Thread Hayes Elkins
If your resolution is set so in your box... do AIW's pass through HD content from a cable box? Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:23:37 -0700To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RE: [H] HD questionsIf I go exchange my Digital Cable box for one that supports HD... and then output to my 2407WFP thr

RE: [H] HD questions

2007-10-19 Thread Winterlight
If I go exchange my Digital Cable box for one that supports HD... and then output to my 2407WFP through my X800 AIW using component cabling then I should be watching in HD correct? At 01:14 PM 10/19/2007, you wrote: It affects every format as they all have to be converted to displ

RE: [H] HD questions

2007-10-19 Thread Hayes Elkins
It affects every format as they all have to be converted to display at 72hz> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:29:39 -0700> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [H] HD questions> > At 12:23 PM 10/19/2007, you wrote:> >I'd seriously consider waiting till 120hz panels are

Re: [H] HD questions

2007-10-19 Thread Winterlight
At 12:46 PM 10/19/2007, you wrote: Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Get a HD Tivo, > > I have read about it but I have no experience with Tivo... this is > subscription service device right? What does a HD Tivo cost Yes. You pay one way or the other. A monthly fee. I have lifeti

Re: [H] HD questions

2007-10-19 Thread Winterlight
Get a HD Tivo, I have read about it but I have no experience with Tivo... this is subscription service device right? What does a HD Tivo cost? upgrade the hard drive if you want to, and let it get all your HD stuff. Then you can transfer it to the PC How?... is it networked. So Tivo HD

RE: [H] HD questions

2007-10-19 Thread Winterlight
At 12:23 PM 10/19/2007, you wrote: I'd seriously consider waiting till 120hz panels are saturated. Well, there is always some good reason to wait and by the time that change takes place and is tried and tested in the market... you are talking years. 120hz is an even multiple of 30fps ntsc,

RE: [H] HD questions

2007-10-19 Thread Hayes Elkins
I'd seriously consider waiting till 120hz panels are saturated. 120hz is an even multiple of 30fps ntsc, 60fps HD, and 24fps film. In theory, the smoothest picture to date for any format. Samsung already is pushing their line heavily. This is LCD of course, not sure if there are any plans to ha

Re: [H] HD questions

2007-10-19 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Dude!!! Get a HD Tivo, upgrade the hard drive if you want to, and let it get all your HD stuff. Then you can transfer it to the PC and do with it has you please (edit, watch, burn, etc). If you don't see a reason to add direct TV, I don't see one either! :) Sweet display! :) Make life simple.

[H] HD questions

2007-10-19 Thread Winterlight
I have found a Plasma TV that I am willing to write a ridiculously high check for. The Pioneer PRO-150D is Pioneer's flagship Plasma that supports 1080. http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/v3/pg/kuro/product/details/0,,2076_310069729_477134674,00.html Oddly enough, I have been waiting thes

RE: [H] Blown capacitors

2007-10-19 Thread Greg Sevart
> At 02:18 PM 19/10/2007, Greg Sevart wrote: > > > > > > >My take is that you replace the bulging caps with the same values > and > > > >you should be fine. > > > > > > I've done that, and the new ones puffed in less than 24 hours. > > > > > > T > > > >Sounds like some other circuitry is creating a

RE: [H] Blown capacitors

2007-10-19 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 02:18 PM 19/10/2007, Greg Sevart wrote: > > >My take is that you replace the bulging caps with the same values and > >you should be fine. > > I've done that, and the new ones puffed in less than 24 hours. > > T Sounds like some other circuitry is creating an over-driven condition for them. Ti

RE: [H] Blown capacitors

2007-10-19 Thread Greg Sevart
> > >My take is that you replace the bulging caps with the same values and > >you should be fine. > > I've done that, and the new ones puffed in less than 24 hours. > > T Sounds like some other circuitry is creating an over-driven condition for them. Time to toss the mobo. Greg

Re: [H] Blown capacitors

2007-10-19 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 11:43 AM 19/10/2007, Steve Tomporowski wrote: >From what I heard, the reason these caps are bulging & failing is that their construction didn't really meet the temp spec. The caps can be heating up from two sources: Ambient temps near them or having to filter out large amounts of noise (60hz

Re: [H] Blown capacitors

2007-10-19 Thread Rick Glazier
I have done this a little... I used "fairly good" caps since I did not need to get another five years out of them. (I would say you have a different situation...) The problem can be seen here better than I can explain it... http://www.low-esr.com/ Also: http://www.badcaps.net/

Re: [H] Blown capacitors

2007-10-19 Thread Steve Tomporowski
>From what I heard, the reason these caps are bulging & failing is that their construction didn't really meet the temp spec. The caps can be heating up from two sources: Ambient temps near them or having to filter out large amounts of noise (60hz) off the power lines. Since you had to replace a

Re: [H] Blown capacitors

2007-10-19 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
New mobo! Having to "re-design" after the fact, in the field is bad new, IMO. Thane Sherrington wrote: Here's an interesting one. I had a machine in with seven blown caps (one group of four near the CPU and one group of 3 near the AGP slot - all 3300uF 6.3V.) So I replaced them all and this

[H] Blown capacitors

2007-10-19 Thread Thane Sherrington
Here's an interesting one. I had a machine in with seven blown caps (one group of four near the CPU and one group of 3 near the AGP slot - all 3300uF 6.3V.) So I replaced them all and this morning (after running AV scans overnight) the three near the AGP are all puffed. So I'm figuring that

Re: [H] Did Firefox CPU usage spike for anyone else recently?

2007-10-19 Thread Brian Weeden
Nope good 'ol WinXP SP2. That's a pretty sad bug - one more reason I won't be "upgrading" to Vista anytime soon. -- Brian Weeden On 10/19/07, Christopher Fisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Brian Weeden wrote: > > > Great link. I have a couple on that list - Forecast Fox a

Re: [H] Did Firefox CPU usage spike for anyone else recently?

2007-10-19 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Brian Weeden wrote: Great link. I have a couple on that list - Forecast Fox and FireFTP but they are the latest versions. I did another test. I played mp3s locally while surfing and it was fine. But playing mp3s located on the LAN in iTunes while surfing caused stutterin

Re: [H] Ipod Nano

2007-10-19 Thread Joe User
Hello Winterlight, Friday, October 19, 2007, 2:26:28 AM, you wrote: > I want to buy a 3rd gen Ipod Nano. I guess there is no such thing > as a Ipod sale ... is there, or significantly reduced price for > Ipods? No after Xmas deals, nothing like that. The price now is the > price it is goin

Re: [H] Ipod Nano

2007-10-19 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Every now and then you can catch one at $20 off...PC Connection...the price only drops on the old ones when new ones come out. Winterlight wrote: I want to buy a 3rd gen Ipod Nano. I guess there is no such thing as a Ipod sale ... is there, or significantly reduced price for Ipods? No afte

[H] Ipod Nano

2007-10-19 Thread Winterlight
I want to buy a 3rd gen Ipod Nano. I guess there is no such thing as a Ipod sale ... is there, or significantly reduced price for Ipods? No after Xmas deals, nothing like that. The price now is the price it is going to stay? I won't feel like gee I could of got it for 50 bucks less if I had