I also bought another new toy...
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I also bought another new toy...
Since my $50 surround-sound system is now a doorstop, and it was my primary DVD player, I decided to splurge on another purchase. I was seriously considering getting a PlayStation 3, just to have a Blu-Ray player. But...
The squiggly place down the street had a Blu-Ray player for under $300 (the first I've ever seen). It's virtually identical to a $400 player from Phillips....this one just says "Magnavox" on it. It also doesn't have component output, but since I send everything out via HDMI (I got 3 6-ft HDMI cables from Monoprice.com for $5 each!), and my new receiver has 2 HDMI inputs (one from my new Blu-Ray, one from my HD cable box), I figured what the hell...
This thing also upconverts all my DVDs, so I don't have to rebuy all my old movies on the new format (which isn't possible anyway, since most of my 500 or so movies haven't come out on Blu-Ray yet). That said, I did rebuy one movie in Blu-Ray, since it has history for me. It was the first movie I ever bought on VHS, and the first I ever bought on DVD...so I made it the first I bought on Blu-Ray, too. The movie? Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, "2001: A Space Odyssey".
I gotta say, it's a spectacular print. The models look amazing, there's absolutely no color banding (those annoying gradations of color you sometimes get, like around HAL's red "eye"), and you can almost see individual pores on Keir Dullea's face.
I also watched my DVDs of "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" on it (I'm going through my DVDs in alphabetical order, and am up to the "G" section!), and it does a very, very nice job of upconverting.
The squiggly place down the street had a Blu-Ray player for under $300 (the first I've ever seen). It's virtually identical to a $400 player from Phillips....this one just says "Magnavox" on it. It also doesn't have component output, but since I send everything out via HDMI (I got 3 6-ft HDMI cables from Monoprice.com for $5 each!), and my new receiver has 2 HDMI inputs (one from my new Blu-Ray, one from my HD cable box), I figured what the hell...
This thing also upconverts all my DVDs, so I don't have to rebuy all my old movies on the new format (which isn't possible anyway, since most of my 500 or so movies haven't come out on Blu-Ray yet). That said, I did rebuy one movie in Blu-Ray, since it has history for me. It was the first movie I ever bought on VHS, and the first I ever bought on DVD...so I made it the first I bought on Blu-Ray, too. The movie? Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, "2001: A Space Odyssey".
I gotta say, it's a spectacular print. The models look amazing, there's absolutely no color banding (those annoying gradations of color you sometimes get, like around HAL's red "eye"), and you can almost see individual pores on Keir Dullea's face.
I also watched my DVDs of "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" on it (I'm going through my DVDs in alphabetical order, and am up to the "G" section!), and it does a very, very nice job of upconverting.
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OK, but for $350 you could have gotten a PS3.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Re: I also bought another new toy...
Sweetheart, as much as I care for you, my eyes glazed over while reading this.KillerTomato wrote:Since my $50 surround-sound system is now a doorstop, and it was my primary DVD player, I decided to splurge on another purchase. I was seriously considering getting a PlayStation 3, just to have a Blu-Ray player. But...
The squiggly place down the street had a Blu-Ray player for under $300 (the first I've ever seen). It's virtually identical to a $400 player from Phillips....this one just says "Magnavox" on it. It also doesn't have component output, but since I send everything out via HDMI (I got 3 6-ft HDMI cables from Monoprice.com for $5 each!), and my new receiver has 2 HDMI inputs (one from my new Blu-Ray, one from my HD cable box), I figured what the hell...
This thing also upconverts all my DVDs, so I don't have to rebuy all my old movies on the new format (which isn't possible anyway, since most of my 500 or so movies haven't come out on Blu-Ray yet). That said, I did rebuy one movie in Blu-Ray, since it has history for me. It was the first movie I ever bought on VHS, and the first I ever bought on DVD...so I made it the first I bought on Blu-Ray, too. The movie? Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, "2001: A Space Odyssey".
I gotta say, it's a spectacular print. The models look amazing, there's absolutely no color banding (those annoying gradations of color you sometimes get, like around HAL's red "eye"), and you can almost see individual pores on Keir Dullea's face.
I also watched my DVDs of "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" on it (I'm going through my DVDs in alphabetical order, and am up to the "G" section!), and it does a very, very nice job of upconverting.

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Re: I also bought another new toy...
You can deal only with liquid technology?christie1111 wrote:Sweetheart, as much as I care for you, my eyes glazed over while reading this.KillerTomato wrote:Since my $50 surround-sound system is now a doorstop, and it was my primary DVD player, I decided to splurge on another purchase. I was seriously considering getting a PlayStation 3, just to have a Blu-Ray player. But...
The squiggly place down the street had a Blu-Ray player for under $300 (the first I've ever seen). It's virtually identical to a $400 player from Phillips....this one just says "Magnavox" on it. It also doesn't have component output, but since I send everything out via HDMI (I got 3 6-ft HDMI cables from Monoprice.com for $5 each!), and my new receiver has 2 HDMI inputs (one from my new Blu-Ray, one from my HD cable box), I figured what the hell...
This thing also upconverts all my DVDs, so I don't have to rebuy all my old movies on the new format (which isn't possible anyway, since most of my 500 or so movies haven't come out on Blu-Ray yet). That said, I did rebuy one movie in Blu-Ray, since it has history for me. It was the first movie I ever bought on VHS, and the first I ever bought on DVD...so I made it the first I bought on Blu-Ray, too. The movie? Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, "2001: A Space Odyssey".
I gotta say, it's a spectacular print. The models look amazing, there's absolutely no color banding (those annoying gradations of color you sometimes get, like around HAL's red "eye"), and you can almost see individual pores on Keir Dullea's face.
I also watched my DVDs of "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" on it (I'm going through my DVDs in alphabetical order, and am up to the "G" section!), and it does a very, very nice job of upconverting.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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Re: I also bought another new toy...
Such an eloquent response C...mine is just plain ole "huh??"christie1111 wrote:Sweetheart, as much as I care for you, my eyes glazed over while reading this.KillerTomato wrote:Since my $50 surround-sound system is now a doorstop, and it was my primary DVD player, I decided to splurge on another purchase. I was seriously considering getting a PlayStation 3, just to have a Blu-Ray player. But...
The squiggly place down the street had a Blu-Ray player for under $300 (the first I've ever seen). It's virtually identical to a $400 player from Phillips....this one just says "Magnavox" on it. It also doesn't have component output, but since I send everything out via HDMI (I got 3 6-ft HDMI cables from Monoprice.com for $5 each!), and my new receiver has 2 HDMI inputs (one from my new Blu-Ray, one from my HD cable box), I figured what the hell...
This thing also upconverts all my DVDs, so I don't have to rebuy all my old movies on the new format (which isn't possible anyway, since most of my 500 or so movies haven't come out on Blu-Ray yet). That said, I did rebuy one movie in Blu-Ray, since it has history for me. It was the first movie I ever bought on VHS, and the first I ever bought on DVD...so I made it the first I bought on Blu-Ray, too. The movie? Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, "2001: A Space Odyssey".
I gotta say, it's a spectacular print. The models look amazing, there's absolutely no color banding (those annoying gradations of color you sometimes get, like around HAL's red "eye"), and you can almost see individual pores on Keir Dullea's face.
I also watched my DVDs of "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" on it (I'm going through my DVDs in alphabetical order, and am up to the "G" section!), and it does a very, very nice job of upconverting.

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Re: I also bought another new toy...
I'll drink to that!Bob Juch wrote:You can deal only with liquid technology?christie1111 wrote:Sweetheart, as much as I care for you, my eyes glazed over while reading this.KillerTomato wrote:Since my $50 surround-sound system is now a doorstop, and it was my primary DVD player, I decided to splurge on another purchase. I was seriously considering getting a PlayStation 3, just to have a Blu-Ray player. But...
The squiggly place down the street had a Blu-Ray player for under $300 (the first I've ever seen). It's virtually identical to a $400 player from Phillips....this one just says "Magnavox" on it. It also doesn't have component output, but since I send everything out via HDMI (I got 3 6-ft HDMI cables from Monoprice.com for $5 each!), and my new receiver has 2 HDMI inputs (one from my new Blu-Ray, one from my HD cable box), I figured what the hell...
This thing also upconverts all my DVDs, so I don't have to rebuy all my old movies on the new format (which isn't possible anyway, since most of my 500 or so movies haven't come out on Blu-Ray yet). That said, I did rebuy one movie in Blu-Ray, since it has history for me. It was the first movie I ever bought on VHS, and the first I ever bought on DVD...so I made it the first I bought on Blu-Ray, too. The movie? Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, "2001: A Space Odyssey".
I gotta say, it's a spectacular print. The models look amazing, there's absolutely no color banding (those annoying gradations of color you sometimes get, like around HAL's red "eye"), and you can almost see individual pores on Keir Dullea's face.
I also watched my DVDs of "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" on it (I'm going through my DVDs in alphabetical order, and am up to the "G" section!), and it does a very, very nice job of upconverting.
Oh, that is not what you meant?

My bad!
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Re: I also bought another new toy...
Bob Juch wrote:You can deal only with liquid technology?christie1111 wrote:Sweetheart, as much as I care for you, my eyes glazed over while reading this.KillerTomato wrote:Since my $50 surround-sound system is now a doorstop, and it was my primary DVD player, I decided to splurge on another purchase. I was seriously considering getting a PlayStation 3, just to have a Blu-Ray player. But...
The squiggly place down the street had a Blu-Ray player for under $300 (the first I've ever seen). It's virtually identical to a $400 player from Phillips....this one just says "Magnavox" on it. It also doesn't have component output, but since I send everything out via HDMI (I got 3 6-ft HDMI cables from Monoprice.com for $5 each!), and my new receiver has 2 HDMI inputs (one from my new Blu-Ray, one from my HD cable box), I figured what the hell...
This thing also upconverts all my DVDs, so I don't have to rebuy all my old movies on the new format (which isn't possible anyway, since most of my 500 or so movies haven't come out on Blu-Ray yet). That said, I did rebuy one movie in Blu-Ray, since it has history for me. It was the first movie I ever bought on VHS, and the first I ever bought on DVD...so I made it the first I bought on Blu-Ray, too. The movie? Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, "2001: A Space Odyssey".
I gotta say, it's a spectacular print. The models look amazing, there's absolutely no color banding (those annoying gradations of color you sometimes get, like around HAL's red "eye"), and you can almost see individual pores on Keir Dullea's face.
I also watched my DVDs of "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" on it (I'm going through my DVDs in alphabetical order, and am up to the "G" section!), and it does a very, very nice job of upconverting.
Liquid technology is so exhilarating! Teehee!
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Bob Juch wrote:OK, but for $350 you could have gotten a PS3.
I have never seen it for less than $399, and that's without the remote which is another $25. Plus, I'd never use it for anything other that the Blu-Ray, so why pay more?
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Christie and Kay, let's just say I got a fancy new movie-playin' thingie and leave it at that! 
Jeemie, the receiver decodes the signal from the HDMI feed. So no need for separate component cables for the audio.
'Course now I need new speakers and a powered subwoofer, so I guess my economic stimulus check is now spoken for...

Jeemie, the receiver decodes the signal from the HDMI feed. So no need for separate component cables for the audio.
'Course now I need new speakers and a powered subwoofer, so I guess my economic stimulus check is now spoken for...
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust while the infamous sit at banquets.
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Re: I also bought another new toy...
KT's story would be good evidence of his movie obsession, if by some chance he happened to be going to a Movie Edition audition...kayrharris wrote:Such an eloquent response C...mine is just plain ole "huh??"christie1111 wrote:Sweetheart, as much as I care for you, my eyes glazed over while reading this.KillerTomato wrote:Since my $50 surround-sound system is now a doorstop, and it was my primary DVD player, I decided to splurge on another purchase. I was seriously considering getting a PlayStation 3, just to have a Blu-Ray player. But...
The squiggly place down the street had a Blu-Ray player for under $300 (the first I've ever seen). It's virtually identical to a $400 player from Phillips....this one just says "Magnavox" on it. It also doesn't have component output, but since I send everything out via HDMI (I got 3 6-ft HDMI cables from Monoprice.com for $5 each!), and my new receiver has 2 HDMI inputs (one from my new Blu-Ray, one from my HD cable box), I figured what the hell...
This thing also upconverts all my DVDs, so I don't have to rebuy all my old movies on the new format (which isn't possible anyway, since most of my 500 or so movies haven't come out on Blu-Ray yet). That said, I did rebuy one movie in Blu-Ray, since it has history for me. It was the first movie I ever bought on VHS, and the first I ever bought on DVD...so I made it the first I bought on Blu-Ray, too. The movie? Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, "2001: A Space Odyssey".
I gotta say, it's a spectacular print. The models look amazing, there's absolutely no color banding (those annoying gradations of color you sometimes get, like around HAL's red "eye"), and you can almost see individual pores on Keir Dullea's face.
I also watched my DVDs of "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" on it (I'm going through my DVDs in alphabetical order, and am up to the "G" section!), and it does a very, very nice job of upconverting.

But the AP would probably react the same way as christie and kay.

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Sounds like it's time to get on another gameshow.KillerTomato wrote:Christie and Kay, let's just say I got a fancy new movie-playin' thingie and leave it at that!
Jeemie, the receiver decodes the signal from the HDMI feed. So no need for separate component cables for the audio.
'Course now I need new speakers and a powered subwoofer, so I guess my economic stimulus check is now spoken for...
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