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Originally Posted by Captain Crunch

UMMMMMMMMM ........Be a Man and put your foot down..........Just go to Best Buy or Circuit city and get the one YOU want!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission!!!!!!!!!

Now stand up stick you chest out give a big rooarhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Say to your self I am a man I can do any damn %%$# thing I want to.
Your a man you have a God given right to your big screen...........Now go get that Big screen. And remember You are Man you can do it!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, sure thing!!!

[wtcnbrwndo4u]

Originally Posted by onebxr

Got this thing hooked up this weekend. I ended up getting a receiver and a 5 disc dvd upconvert player all hdmi compatable. I hooked it up and broke it in with Black Hawk Down. Hell I may never go to the movies again. 50" HDTV television watching is AWESOME!
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Does an upconvert DVD player look better than a normal one?

[Captain Crunch]

Originally Posted by wtcnbrwndo4u

Does an up convert DVD player look better than a normal one?

oh HELL yea!!!!!!!! depends on your TV though. An up converter will up convert from (420p normal dvd player) to 1080p or 1080i but your tv needs to be able to do that too. If your tv will only do 720p then your stuck at 720p. The regular tv you have now probably only does 420!
And the bigger your tv the more it makes a difference. (most up converters) HD cable are 1080i now and there are a few that do 1080p and most tv's now will look great but the bigger it is the more the imperfections you will see it's just the nature of the beast!
A 42" at 1080i will look better than a 65' at 1080i because it just easier to see the imperfections.
But if you spend the big bucks on a nice tv then shell out for the dvd up converter it'll be less than $150.00

It would be really silly to spend a couple of thousand dollars for a nice tv that can be watched at 1080i or 1080p and watch it at 420p......!!
Here are a couple of links for ya I used and I do have that Sony and looks and works nice.

http://wize.com/best/dvd-players?c=google_dvd_players_best&s_kwcid=digital% 20oppo|595889786&gclid=CL_Y6I_t7IkCFQo_gQodX3imGg

Sony DVP-NS75H Reviews. Video Players and Recorders Reviews by CNET.

[Capper]

the problem is, I found a nice 5 disk changer for $150, but the HDMI cable is another $120.........I think I'll wait for the prices to come down a bit on the HDMI cables

[onebxr]

Capper I went to costco and bought a package that had a ton of cables in it. It came with 2 hdmi cables, 2 component cables, 1 audio cable, 1 analog video cable, 1 fibre optic cable in the package for 99.00. The myth out there is that you have to buy a 120.00 hdmi cable, this is not true, it either works or it doesnt. Also on new egg you can buy hdmi cable for as little as 20.00.
Dont believe the aholes at Best Buy, you dont for your computer why would you for your TV?
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[Quakindude]

I love my Sony DVD multiplayer. There's only one bad thing about it. If you put in 5 music CD's, it will only shuffle songs on one CD. It won't shuffle among all five CD's. My fix for this? Since I have every single CD I have owned for the last 15 years ripped to MP3 at high bitrates, I put it all on a single DVD and leave that in the player in disc position 5. When I want to listen to music, I just fire up that DVD and shuffle the songs that way.

Forgot to add, when I went to get the HDMI cable for this player, Circuit City only had the Monster HDMI cables that were $79-$125. So I went to Walley World and got this one for $43.

[Captain Crunch]

Originally Posted by Capper

the problem is, I found a nice 5 disk changer for $150, but the HDMI cable is another $120.........I think I'll wait for the prices to come down a bit on the HDMI cables

Rich here are a couple of links my cable works just fine and after reading a bunch of reviews some of the guys had 150.00 buck monster cables and then tried there 15.00 dollar no name brand HDMI cable and could not tell the difference the 15 buck one would be worth your time just to try. Hell if you dont like it I'll buy it from you!! I'll probably need on more at some point anyway.

Newegg.com - Link Depot HDMI TO HDMI A/V Cable - OEM

monoPrice.com - best quality products at the lowest price

monoPrice.com - best quality products at the lowest price

[wtcnbrwndo4u]

Originally Posted by onebxr

Capper I went to costco and bought a package that had a ton of cables in it. It came with 2 hdmi cables, 2 component cables, 1 audio cable, 1 analog video cable, 1 fibre optic cable in the package for 99.00. The myth out there is that you have to buy a 120.00 hdmi cable, this is not true, it either works or it doesnt. Also on new egg you can buy hdmi cable for as little as 20.00.
Dont believe the aholes at Best Buy, you dont for your computer why would you for your TV?
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Haha, I was gonna say that.

As for the DVD players... That's not bad of a deal. I just need to find out if that Samsung system I was eyeing upconverts to 1080p. That HDMI port has to be useful for something!

[Capper]

God I hate DirecTV, biggest scam in the world......
$12.99 for HD content
$4.99 for TIVO
$4.99 for a "leased" receiver (that I paid $399 for)

[Captain Crunch]

Nifty little chart I came across