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[oliverredfox]

You can also grabbed it plus a 2nd movie with an extra $8 off.  http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=br_lf_m_1000495491_pglink_1?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000495491&plpage=1

From: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2993781

[oliverredfox]

Damn, that’s a nice price.  I’ve got a 4350 in the HTPC right now, but for $10 after shipping I’m thinking I should grab the upgrade.

[oliverredfox]

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That’s what I get for not looking at the replies to the topic first.  I went ahead and bought the one on ebay and then saw I could have gotten it cheaper elsewhere. 

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Hopefully the OP or Mike can edit the front page info to show the other locations to buy, so if anyone else doesn’t read the replies they won’t pay extra.

[oliverredfox]

http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed will read your memory dump after a crash and help you figure out what went wrong.

[oliverredfox]

I run x64 for everything.  I’m not certain how much RAM you are using, but if you’re doing 3GB or more, I wouldn’t even consider 32bit unless there is a specific program you plan to use that doesn’t play nice with x64.

[oliverredfox]

Buy.com has them for $264.  http://www.buy.com/prod/ceton-infinitv-4/q/loc/111/221525094.html  The list price is $299 on there, so either they got confused on pricing or list price has dropped by $100. 

http://www.erwincomputers.com/ceton-infinitv-4-ceton-corp-5100-01-dct04in.html has them for $256, I’ve never heard of them but seem to have solid reviews on Google’s ratings

So it looks like a big old price drop all around.  Nice find irev210.

[oliverredfox]

This 40″ 1080p for $350 isn’t too bad also(kinda a cheap brand but for the price, not too shabby).  http://www.walmart.com/ip/Apex-LD4088/16489924

[oliverredfox]

You could always run Windows 7 to serve the bedroom and toss WHS on a virtual machine on the same system to handle your backups, remote serve video, etc.

[oliverredfox]

I personally use long cables.  I’m figure a little EM interference could quickly drive me nuts with wireless solutions. 

Do you need to be able to set and program shows on bedroom TV or do you just use it watch stuff?  At times, I feel like I could get away with just using DLNA server/transcoding software on my PC and viewing my shows via the TVs built in DLNA viewer.

[oliverredfox]

Nice, free is always good. =)

[oliverredfox]

I have a friend who is a DJ, I’ll ask him what he uses(hadn’t even crossed my mind to ask him).  But I suspect, like the program you linked, it’ll be over priced for my trivial needs.

Dual programs running, one with video and one with the music would roughly work.  No one but me would know that the real music videos weren’t occasionally playing (But it would still nag me knowing that there has to be some way to pull it off.)

It seems like it would be ideal for a WMP visualization plug-in.  Simply playing random video instead of the cheezy line art.  I’ll keep digging around and trying more search terms on Google to see what I can find.

[oliverredfox]

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Give me until Thursday and I can test w/ 12 HDTV channels to see how it does.

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I’ll be curled up in the corner crying with envy.

[oliverredfox]

You’re better off with 2 sticks of RAM, especially if you’re running onboard video.  You’ll really want to be running in dual channel mode with your memory.

[oliverredfox]

The “upconverted” sound from your USB device when set to 5.1 is most likely faked and not true ProLogic sound.

Now on the other hand, when you send stereo output and use ProLogic (I run Dolby Pro Logic IIx) on your stereo, it is actually taking information that was encoded into the stereo signal to figure out additional speaker channels.  ProLogic has been around for a long time, even your old VHS tapes would have its sound encoded that way.

What you had previously been asking about is Dolby Digital.  DD has the information digital encoded with each speaker given it’s own stream.  This allows for even more information to be given per speaker resulting in more separation and range.

So you are hearing true surround sound, you just aren’t hearing Dolby Digital surround sound.  Basically ProLogic uses analog audio tricks (phasing, sync, etc) to hide the information for surround in 2 channels, while DD transmits all the channels individually.  I hope that helps explain it for you (a bit sleepy as write this).

[oliverredfox]

Might also help to toggle ‘Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power’ off under your device manager for your network card.

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