Friday
Dec252009
Dec 25 Podcast #405: Listener Q & A
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Merry Christmas to all and to all another HDTV Podcast episode. May your tree be full of gifts to help you enjoy HDTV and Home Theater even more this coming year and may your stocking overflow with great gadgets.
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Merry Christmas to all and to all another HDTV Podcast episode. May your tree be full of gifts to help you enjoy HDTV and Home Theater even more this coming year and may your stocking overflow with great gadgets.
Today's episode is full of listener call in questions. Thank you everyone for helping to provide great content for today's show!
Reader Comments (7)
Just listening to the show well wrapping my wifes last 2 presents. She's gone back to bed after opening our Santa stockings.
Home and listening to the podcast! I love that you guys put one out even on Christmas Day while everything else I watch or listen to is on re-runs!
I always enjoy your show. Thanks for all your effort. Because of you guys, I have about $5000 of equipment in my wish/needs list for next year.
I listened to episode 404 on Christmas Day and 405 today. Driving to family gave me plenty of time to catch up.
Great show guys. Since I got the LG BDP 300 (sadly it needs to go back because a firmware update over the summer made the dvd playback inoperable...price for early adoption I guess) for Christmas last year and a Vizio 42" LCD over the summer, I did not get much HT wise this year. My girlfriend did get me a bluetooth reciever to plug into my old Sony Dream system to stream my iPhone. She surprised me and gave me hope that she will understand when I want to upgrade my reciever. I got her a Bose Sound dock II. Pretty solid product. I did get my son Transformers 2 on Blu Ray and the sound was better than the story. Haha.
Again, great show keep up the good work.
Regarding "Assignable Inputs": The two receivers I have the most recent experience with implement assignable inputs pretty much the same way. For example, most receivers have a ton of analog input terminals, both video and audio, but have fewer digital input terminals. In my case, I have my HD Tivo connected by Component and Toslink Optical Digital. I just plugged the Toslink into the first port on the receiver and went into the configuration and assigned that digital audio input to the video input (Video2) that the Component was connected to. I think with Coaxial and Optical digital audio, and now HDMI, it's easier for the receiver designers to make them assignable than to provide the hardware for every permutation that somebody might need. I also feel that Input Naming, that was mentioned in the show, is a separate issue/feature.
HI Guys! I know I'm late here (I did not hear it on Christmas Day, we were busy watching the BD movies that Santa brought) but Colin's Call-in™ has been bothering me since I heard it.
What if these specially made rental DVD's are not even true, full quality DVD's? They could easily be like studio screeners for Academy voters and all the content burned to a single layer of the disc? In other words, squeezing the movie into maybe 1/2 to 2/3 the space of the commercial disc. Compression technology is great but he's correct, at this point you're really getting quality similar to a downloaded movie, no?
I can totally see his complaint as valid if this scenario is correct.
Happy New Year!
One other thought I think you guys missed about the Rental only Discs, it is only a guess but I bet the Rental store will not be able to sell the disc as used or preciously viewed. It is for Rental Only. The Movie Industry hates the fact that Rental Store resell their movies after they Rental Store is done with the Disc. I would hope the Rental Store will get the Movie at a lower rate if they are not allowed to resell the Disc in the end.
That is just my two cents, what do you think?