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Red was awesome even though it confirms that trailers now a days give away too much of the movie.

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I was really looking forward to The Losers and saw it in the theater and thought it was just okay.  It just seemed to be missing some of the fun that I thought would be there.  The A-Team was kind of the opposite, it was too gimmicky and they walked around like they had already read the script and they knew they wouldn’t be dead at the end.  I like a movie with balance, like Die Hard where there is some real action with some lighter moments mixed in.

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I guess I will uninstall both the GeForce & Catalyst drivers, clear out all the ATI references in the GAC and then clear the ATI listings out of the registry before trying to reinstall the Catalyst again.  Is there a topic or a website that lists the steps for enabling HD Audio in TMT3 or in Catalyst?  That was the root issue that caused me to try to upgrade the driver.  After everything was setup and working I didn’t know what to do next.  TMT3 had a setting under Audio, something like “use primary audio” which I assumed would be the HD feed but like I said, the Onyko display only listed DD or DTS.

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I had seen an post where someone said they had to unistall my GeForce Drivers prior to installing the Catalyst drivers so I thought I would give that a go.  Is Windows 7 a must to get this going?  I’d prefer to stick with Vista if at all possible just because I don’t want to redo the whole HTPC (again).

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The “cure” for zombies is trauma to the head :oP

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@Lothar – I use http://instantwatcher.com/ to find movies and shows to watch on Netflix streaming.

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Yeah, I’ll stick with TMT3 as long as I can. 

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No, I can’t use HDMI until I get a working HD Fury2 which I will (most likely) connect to the TV’s VGA port.

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Yeah, my HD Fury 2 came in the mail yesterday but I haven’t messed with that yet since I don’t have the video card yet to make it worth while.

@Navlia – I’ll take a look at card, I do like the idea of it being passively cooled.

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So just to be 100% certain before I drop $100 on a new video card, ANY ATI 5xxx series will support HD Audio?  I like this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125339&cm_re=ati_5670_1gb-_-14-125-339-_-Product

but I wanna be 100% that this will do the trick before I pull the trigger on it.

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I’ll be ordering a HD Fury 2 this week and a ATI card shortly there after.  Was just mad that it wasn’t what I thought I was getting.

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The Onyko TX-SR608 DOESN’T have the inputs for analog HD audio, it doesn’t have on screen setup over component connections (HDMI only).  So I basically spend $400+ a receiver that doesn’t do anything that my Harman Kardon didn’t already do.  Hell, at least the Harman Kardon did have the analog speaker connectors so I could have had uncompressed audio that way.  Sorry for the rant, I was just really disappointed with the new receiver setup.

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If you do a search on Facebook for Empire Strikes Back: Revisited they have the whole A New Hope: Revisited in the videos section in HD in 10 minute increments.  My work PC sucks so it was a bit choppy but the picture was pretty sharp.  I won’t go into whether it was truly HD or not but I do recommend watching the Death Star battle at the end if you’re considering downloading it.

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Netflix, NFL Sunday Ticket online and MLB.TV online would total out to $650.00 a year.  OTA and Hulu basic are free so I could drop Directv and save about $800 a year.  Interesting, I’ll take it up with the commitee…

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Alot of the goofy bits like the Jaba scene and most of the parts with probe droids everywhere and animals getting loose and that droid pounding the other droid to the ground have been removed.  I tell ya, it was like Christmas…

Oh, and Vader’s and Obi-Wan’s light sabers look correct now.

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