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Q I want to print out your reviews but the right side gets chopped
off when I print them. How do I fix this? T Q I have a question about the DVI and HDMI connections on a HDTV. The TV that I am interested in is the Sony 34" KV-34XBR910. It has everything that I think I need including one DVI-HDCP connection. Is there anything about this set that I should be concerned about? Also, the main question that I have is that I am planning on getting a DVD player with a DVI output and connecting it to the TV. Am I going to need another DVI input on the TV for HDTV if I go through the cable company? I know they have boxes with component outs but would a box with DVI outs be better? I am a little confused because I was also told that some time next year the TVs would have the HDTV tuners built-in. I thought that the DVI connection was digital and therefore there would be a DAC in the TV for the signal. How is that different than the HDTV tuner box? Isn't the box just a DAC converting the signal to analog? I would like to get this TV but I can wait another 6 months or so if ! they will be adding features that I am going to need. A The reason DVI/HDCP is a good thing to have on your HDTV is that Hollywood wants to protect its material, and by using DVI with HDCP, they can prevent consumers from making high definition digital copies of movies. It is possible at some point that analog video coming out of a cable or satellite box could be restricted to 480p, while 720p and 1080i would be restricted to coming only out of the DVI jack, enabled with HDCP. So, it is important to look for that DVI jack on any HDTV you are considering, and it must be HDCP enabled to ensure future compatibility. HDMI is essentially DVI with the addition of digital audio carrying capability, and you will be able to buy DVI-HDMI converter cables at some point, although you would need to send the digital audio separately. With DVI, you can have the video as a digital signal all the way to the TV screen. TVs and DVD players with HDMI jacks are starting to appear on the market. T
Q I really laughed when I
read your Q&A comments about the A/V magazine that plagiarized your material.
Although you didn't mention them by name, my friends and I know who they are
because they sent some of the messages out to other people, presumably
attempting to make you look bad. Boy, you do get hot that is for sure. Anyway,
all they did was make themselves look like idiots due to admitting their
plagiarism. Their magazine is sort of a farce on the Internet. On another vein,
a friend of mine at a PR firm said a completely different on-line A/V magazine
was trying to discredit Secrets with manufacturers, possibly because they were
jealous of your high quality which they did not have themselves. They wanted to
get the companies to advertise with their publication instead of Secrets. He said the
editor was considered to be a loose cannon in the A/V industry, and that manufacturers were not fooled by his ridiculous behavior. So, in case you didn't know
that before, now you do. T
Q I want to buy a Marantz SR
5200, but the problem is the power supply is 220 Volts, 50 Hz. In my home country, the power is 220 Volts, 60 Hz. Is it possible to use this 220 Volt 50 Hz
product in my home country? T
Q Can I use regular electrical cord wire for
speaker wire for our home theater system speakers, such as is found in a regular
extension cord? My husband says it will work just fine. He wants to cut off the
plug end and just use the wire. I told him we need to use regular speaker wire. T
Q I recently moved into a new
home and had home theater speakers installed when the house was built. Here's my
problem. I have a total of six speakers in the ceiling, with four in the family
room and two in the living room. My receiver, a Pioneer VSX-D511, only has
enough outputs for four speakers, (two front and two surround), a center
speaker, and a subwoofer. Essentially, I have no place to hook up the two living
room speakers. Is there some sort of a splitter I can purchase to give me two
additional inputs for the living room speakers? I would need something,
obviously, that would allow me to hook up the positive and negative wires of
each speaker. Or, can I wrap the wires to the living room speakers
(positive with positive, and negative with negative) around the wires to the
surround or front speakers? Will this overload the receiver or will I lose sound
from the speakers I piggy back on to? T
Q I recently read your DVD Benchmark and was
impressed by the performance of Panasonic's DVD-RP82. I have been searching the
net to see if I could purchase one, but the model seems to be discontinued.
Does Panasonic have a successor to this model? If so, is it as good as, if not
better? I don't have a preference in brand but I would like to find a player
with the same, if not better performance, as well as a similar price tag. T
Q In your RX-Z1 Benchmark review, it was not clear
as to whether you measured all channels at the same time at 120 watts output
each? Receivers have
a tendency to choke when all channels are driven. Are you on purpose avoiding
the measurement on all channels driven?
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