Archive for April, 2009

Motorized Hdtv

Motorized Hdtv

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Samsung Bdp

Samsung Bdp
1080i vizio plasma connected to a Samsung BDP-2500 Blu-ray 1080p?

I have a vizio 1080i plasma in the family room. I also have a LCD TV 1080p vizio in my bedroom. I just bought the latest Samsung BDP-2500 Blu-ray is said to be 1080p. tv Who do I connect it to the best photo or will I even notice a difference?

Chances are you used to even notice a difference. While 1080p is technically better resolution most people since the comparison would not be able to say things. I would like to connect the player to the TV you watch movies the most often.

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Panasonic Dvd

Panasonic Dvd
How do you format a Panasonic DVD to play on other players?

Ok I am trying to record old videos onto DVD. I use a Panasonic DMR-ES30V that can record VHS to DVD. The manual is lost, and INSTUCTIONS operating site will not pull on this computer. Anyway, I Video recorded on DVD, but the process is not finalized. What should I do to complete the formatting process. I would be able to view Video from other DVD players. If you know tell me what you have or you can get on the site. First person who tells me the right answer gets the points.

If it does not ask you if you wanted to finalize when finished recording, then return to the menu and there be an option to do so.

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Hdtv Projector

Hdtv Projector
Where can I find HD content to my HD projector?

I just got a projector HDTV ready and I want to see the HD content (no having to buy an HD tuner). Where can I find something to order?

You'll have to wait several months for the HD-DVD or BluRay player to hit the market. In addition to a tuner (whether terrestrial, cable or satellite) there is no other source for HD.

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Sound System

Sound System
System Sound?

Ok I have a 1999 Mercury Cougar V6 and im wanting to get a new sound system put in but I need to know one number of things and I want advice on the other. The first thing is what size speakers are in my car. The second thing is where is a good place to put a sub intis my car trunk and more. So what is a good place to get a new sound system installed?

Front speakers Front Door: 6x8 "rear speakers Far Rear Seat Side Panels: 6x8" you're limited to where you can be because that its small car and you do not have room under the seat for a box and / or amp if you are limited to the trunk or rear deck, but Whit the rear deck, you must have "open air or outdoors (no box) underwater and they are difficult to find since you should go try a car audio shop in your area because they are better informed than people from Best Buy and / or Circuit City and would be better to help you to choose the correct configuration for your taste and your car and installers are much better

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Home Dvd

Home Dvd

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Theater Receiver

Theater Receiver
I am looking for a new home theater receiver with certain features. Can anyone recommend one for me?

I am looking to replace an old Sony Home Theater receiver. I am looking for one of these specific features: 4 HDMI inputs 1 HDMI output, at least 4 optical inputs, video upconversion. Please can anyone recommend a good brand and model which should these criteria? I'm also looking at a good price (of course). Thank you for your help.

The Yamaha RX-V1800 is the cheapest I can find is a receptor good quality brand with the connections you need. In addition, it upconverts any sourse video (composite, S-Video, Component) to 1080p and decode Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Lossless Audio. I think it is about $ 1299.95.

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Ray Multi

Ray Multi
Is a multi-regional Blue Ray discs which means playable on any player or PS3 Blue Ray in any country?

Is a European Blue ray disc be played in North America, unlike normal DVD is this true or possible?

Blu-ray Discs may be encoded with a region code, intended to limit the region of the world where they can play, similar in principle to the codes of the Region of the DVD, although the regions geographical used differ. Blu-ray Disc sold in a certain region may only play discs encoded for that region. This is mainly used for segmenting the market, or price discrimination, but it also allows studios to control various aspects of a release (including content and release date), by region. Discs may also be produced without region code, so they can be played on all devices. The country's leading manufacturers of Blu Ray (Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, etc.) are in the same region as the Americas. At the end of 2008, nearly 70% of all released discs were region-free. Major studios have different region coding policies. Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios have released all of the region to release their titles. Sony Pictures and Warner Bros have released most of their titles region free, but the titles published by the division Warner's New Line was originally code-region, but were later released without being locked. Securities issued by other labels to on behalf of New Line are still subject to a blocking region. Lionsgate and Walt Disney Pictures has released a set of titles that were region free and region coded. 20th Century Fox has released all three of the region, but the closed captions. In the region of Blu-ray coding system, the United States - is placed in region A while regions B and C are used for countries that may experience delays in locating the tracks in front of the United States are officially released. The reverse, however, is sometimes true and some new titles like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Running Scared were released in some European countries before the U.S. release. In response to the DVD region system, multi-region and region free DVD players became dominant in certain markets; Some models of Blu-ray have been modified to allow playback of Blu-ray and DVD discs with region codes.

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Lcd Multimedia

Lcd Multimedia

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Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive WDME5000TN (Midnight Black)
 
Manufacturer: Western Digital
Customer Rating:
 
List Price: $139.99
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Product Description

Pack up your office files and take them home, carry thousands of songs or pictures, and synchronize files between home and office and encrypt everything on the drive for added security. These elegant portable drives are simple to use, light and easy to carry, and require no power adapter - they are powered directly through the USB cable.

Product Details

  • Box Contents - My Passport Essential 500GB Portable USB Hard Drive, USB 2.0 cable, Quick Install guide
  • 500GB Hard Drive Capacity
  • Installation is a snap because you don't really install this drive; you just plug it in and it's ready to use. There is no CD to install.
  • Powered by the USB bus. No separate power supply is needed
  • This ultra-portable drive fits easily in your pocket or purse, weighs only a few ounces, and holds tons of valuable data

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Customer Reviews

Compact, sleek and works great
 
Review Date: May 16, 2008
Reviewer: Nuknuk, Springfield, VA United States
Works with my PCs and Macbook. (Make sure you are using the correct USB plug on your Mac laptop. Not all of the USB outlets in Mac laptops have sufficient power to drive an external drive. Read the manual to find which is which).

No review for the included software. Since most of my experience with softwares that comes with products like camera, external drives are rarely satisfactory, software was not installed in the first place.

Pros:
- Lowest price I found for a 2.5" external drive
- No need for a power brick. It is powered by the USB 2.
- So quiet, Just like an Ipod.
- Small enough to fit in your pocket. 0.59" (H) x 5" (L) x 3" (W)
- Comes with the USB cable

Cons:
- Shiny Black finish is easy to scratch
- No case included


Nice drive
 
Review Date: May 22, 2008
Reviewer: Vladimir Kushnir, Darien, CT United States
I have this drive for about half-a year now. It is recognized both by Windows XP and Mac OS X (Leopard). I did not use any software to do backups, just grab the files myself and drag them to the drive, or use a script (.bat file). Operation is exceptionally simple: you connect it - it is recognized by the computer, you use it, and then use disconnect/eject command (I am guilty of not always doing this, but no problems so far) and disconnect it. The drive comes in a soft case, does not have and require any power supply, works via USB cable, and no problems whatsoever so far. I am thinking about buying another one, maybe slightly bigger (there is a 320G version).
Very impressive Drive!
 
Review Date: October 23, 2008
Reviewer: Mike Voss,
Quick summery, Works as advertised, easy to format to ntfs usable drive space on 500 is 465 the same as the previous My Book, it needs no external (additional power). The heat generated is not really noticeable at all.

potential negative: little white flashing light, there is no more disc noise than an IPOD. The only warning I would give is the lack of a case, it really needs protection and should (in my opinion) only be transported or even stored in a case. However this can't be held against the drive as far as its performance.

A little more commentary on reliability, and Price value.

I have purchased half a dozen passport drives in the last 90 days all but one are 320. So as a measure of reliability all of these drives have so far worked very well. They have not become louder or slower they are like they were in the beginning. I use some as dedicated backups and some for consolidation and centralization. As far as durability I have taken one with me on a few trips the first one I acquired. It functions without any noticeable difference as well.

Commentary about Price difference to follow.

No drive is 100% reliable few are in the high 90's for that long. This is of course my opinion, but when compared to the prior My Book 500 GB models of which a few each with power supplies etc. It is so great to not have to deal with big heavy drives with power supplies. When comparing that difference I believe this is certainly worth the price.

A final word on the drive. Not in recent memory have I seen the price for something like the passport drives be so different (in percent) due to color. If there is any difference in any of the WD passport models in color or stainless steel etc please let me know. If it is just aesthetics then as far as I am concerned who cares. Buy the color of your choice but if you are choosing based on price make sure to be aware that color or metal instead of plastic can make a huge difference. In the case of the 320 and 250 passport there seemed to be not just a very big price difference, often 15-35 percent, and this price would change based upon new models etc.

Excellent value for the money and portable to boot
 
Review Date: September 15, 2008
Reviewer: Jerry Saperstein, Evanston, IL USA
For the price, you can't beat the capacity and portability of these Western Digital My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drives.

Western Digital has a long history of producing dependable drives.ss

The housings are well designed and, with a bit of care, you can dissemble them should the need or desire arise. The drives themselves are workhorses. They are not the fastest, but they are more than adequate for most purposes.

I generally don't comment on other reviews of the same product, but there seem to be a number of misconceptions about this product thst should be clarified.

First, these portable hard drives are for usse only with USB 2.0 ports. Period. Machines three years old and older may not have USB 2.0 ports.

Second, hard drives are electro-mechanical devices. Hard drives do fail unexpectedly whether they are a day or year or more old. Hard drive failure is not predictable. So it you plan on using this or any hard drive to back up your precious family photos, financial records or doctoral thesis, make sure you have a second or third backup!



A couple of minor criticisms of the product. The supplied USB cable is on the short side. On the other hand, how long a cable do you need with a portable drive? In any event, USB cables are readily available and relatively inexpensive. A bigger and more important criticism is that Western Digital does not provide a cable with a second USB connector for use on those computers where a single USB port doesn't provide enough power. Finally, WD doesn't include a carrying case. Small things, to be sure, that wouldn't cost Western Digital a lot of money to include, but they don't.

You won't find any competent network administrator who doesn't have multiple backups and the reason for this is that hard drives do fail!

So if you entrust your valuable data to a single hard drive, you are making a big mistake. Always have at least two and preferably three backups that you update frequently. And don't assume that your backups are reliable. Test recovering data from them from time to time.

You might be able to recover some or all the data from a failed hard drive, but it can be a very expensive or troublesome process.

Just remember: if it's worth backing up, it's worth backing up at least twice. That's what the IT pros do - and it's what you should do with your valuable data as well.

Sorry for the digression, but I just wanted to correct the misimpressions that some people have left about these drives.

The Western Digital My Passport Essentials are solid, inexpensive, portable and very useful hard drives.

Jerry
Very easy to use with Mac
 
Review Date: June 13, 2008
Reviewer: S. Menon, Jersey City, NJ
I bought this hard drive for Media Storage (Mac + Win) and also as a backup disc for Time Machine. The good news is that it comes in FAT32 format, which OS X can read/write. The bad news is that Time Machine requires the backup disc to be in HFS+ format (FAT32 or NTFS won't work).

However, this is easy enough to fix. I launched Disk Utility in OS X and partitioned the drive into 240 GB as FAT32 (or as MS-DOS format, as Disk Util calls it), and 80 GB as HFS+. Took less than 5 minutes for the whole thing. So now, I've got one partition for time machine, and another for my media.

Fine Print :

1. In partitioning the drive, it formats the drive first. So any free utils that come with the hard disk are erased. Not an issue for me as I didn't intend to use any of the free software. But anyone trying this should be aware of it.

2. For anyone thinking about doing the same thing, note that FAT32 does allow both Windows and OSX to read/write without the need for a 3rd party software. But the downside of FAT32 is that it doesn't allow a file size larger than 4 GB. This isn't an issue for me (I don't expect to come across many files that are larger than 4 GB each). To avoid this issue, you could create one partition in NTFS (instead of FAT32). Once you do this, you'll need a 3rd party software so that OS X can read and write to the NTFS partition. I've heard good things about MacFuse (though I haven't tried it myself).

Other thoughts...
- Nice and compact
- Fairly silent
- Pretty short USB cable (can be irritating for some. I prefer this to having a long cable dangling around).
- Wish it came with a soft case/cover (that's what I'm looking to pick up next).

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