Andrew Van Til
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[quote=”swoon”]
Speaking of calibration… Here’s a new VT25 review from Kevin Miller, formerly Cnet. Hopefully, Panasonic can fix this in a new firmware.http://www.tweaktv.com/quick-looks/panasonic-tc-p58vt25-3dtv-quick-review-best-hdtv-ever-made.html
[/quote]Thanks. I hope they fix the video processing too, one of the lowest HQV-HD scores I’ve measured.
[quote=”swoon”]
If that’s what he measured, I am surprised. Of course, it is surprising that PC Mag review says it has Kuro blacks as well. Perhaps there is some panel variance at play, firmware bug, phospors not aged enough, etc.
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Might be a difference in test equipment. My 2 cents – both are excellent panels 🙂
The “0.017” number is from the CNET article.
[quote=”swoon”]
He may end up taking the VT25 lower if/when the MLL rises like he did for the Panasonics last year. I don’t think anyone can go wrong with the C8000 or the VT25 though.
[/quote]CNET just posted an [url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20018722-1.html]update[/url] on VT25’s MLL.
[quote=”Matt”]
Looking at AVS it seems the Samsung plasmas continue to have a pretty widespread buzzing problem, which is really off putting 🙁 Because the C7000 and C8000 series seem like pretty compelling options otherwise.
[/quote]VT25s buzz too.
[quote=”shadymg”]
i can’t believe they would cancel Fringe. I have to believe their DVD sales are pretty good. Nobody i talk to doesn’t like that show.
[/quote]I liked the first season, then got bored about half way through season two and figured I’d catch up during the summer – which never happened so Fringe got purged to make space for fall and the favorite went away…
My 2 cents: MissingRemote.com is one of the only places where you’ll get a full perspective on connected home theater devices (which includes HTPC, streamers and as other CE devices get smarter they will get love too) and the surrounding software ecosystem – and this is reflected in the experience and preferences of the staff and surrounding community. Where else can MC, Sage and Myth folk gather w/o hate 😉
I’ve used (and continue to use) Media Center for forever (started playing with the 2002 release – thx MSDN :)), and SageTV for about two years. I use SageTV currently as my primary SW solution because I think it’s the best available now in most areas, but there are clearly some gaps or I wouldn’t need to keep using MC/PDVD/TMT/WDVD.
[quote=”SJMaye”]
Any other case you would recommend looking at?
[/quote]NMEDIAPC makes some pretty nice full height mATX cases that are very reasonably priced.
Why not put the $60 you’ll save towards one 🙂
Do you use FM tuning? I hooked it up once (back in the pre-MCE2005 days) then found out that you couldn’t record anything, figured using the AVRs FM tuner was better cause I didn’t need to have the TV on 🙂
[quote=”robinhoody”]
What everyone is using for HDD company wise? I dont want to buy a WD HD, I was thinking a seagate? or Samsung?
[/quote]Is the current drive a WD? I’m a big fan of their Black drives.
[quote=”robinhoody”]
Also curious to everyones insight on a dual OTA tuner card. I’d prefer just to have one card in the machine instead of two since its already crowded. I’m looking at getting the hauppage 2250, it should cover all my needs. Has anyone had any issues with it?
[/quote]Unless you need the analog capture, I’d go with an Avermedia Duet because it’s much cheaper. I have both, and haven’t had any real problems with either.
I’ve used both, and while I really liked the full size case I think the low profile options are better looking (generally more expensive too). The biggest drawback to low profile cases is storage capacity; all of the other parts you’d put in a HTPC will have a low profile version (GPU, tuners, etc).
Personally, I don’t want a lot of hard disks in the PC I can see because they are loud and generate a good amount of heat (which makes the PC louder). So while I use a HTPC in the living room as a server it only has one hard drive and one SSD in it with all of the other storage located in another file server so that’s not an issue for me.
[quote=”valkyrie”]
What? That case DOES look awesome! Why is the slim optical drive no good?
[/quote]When I was looking the cheapest slim-line BD drive I could find was ~$200 (even now the cheapest/only one on Newegg is $153).
[quote=”valkyrie”]
For me, the ITX meant one card slot. Which would have been OK, but Intel does not make a quad core i5 with Video onboard and I needed to use the card slot for a port-multiplier card for my disk enclosure.
[/quote]What ITX board did you get? Some of the H57 boards don’t support the quads (i.e. I think the DH57JG is only rated to 87W).
[quote=”xjboonie”]
That’s what I thought.I’m trying to decide between a dual core Intel core i processor with HD Video, or a quad core Intel (or AMD) and using an ATI 5770 or something like it (I have a 4670 now, but might upgrade for bitstreaming). It’s for the rebuild of my HTPC running SageTV with one extender, one client (the PC in the home office) and placeshifting (maybe). I don’t know if a dual core would be enough…
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I use a i5-661 in my Sage server w/ one HD300 and two PC clients and there’s plenty of headroom.
Not sure where to go with that. I have a pretty decent setup, but it’s nowhere close to the experience available at the theaters around here.
[quote=”autoboy”]
God I hate HD bitstreaming. I wish it would just go away.
[/quote]There are a lot of reasons why HD bit streaming is a very nice feature (bypassing the OS’s mixer to name a big one). Why do you want it to go away?
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