----- Original Message -----
From: " JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT com
Newsgroups: rec.boats
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:21 PM
Subject: Yikes! Consumer Electronic Rip...




It is all hype........and all touted by the manufacturers and retailers.

And looking at the differences in prices...........I can understand why.


BTW, I forgot one important item.

Component cables are the only form of consumer video transmission that will
work with the progressive scan output of your DVD player or HD cable
transmission. Composite and S-Video will only support interlaced mode. If
you haven't tried it - progressive scan yields a much smoother image with
less flickering than the older interlaced mode (your old, pre-HD TV set is
interlaced).

Eisboch

Thanks very much for the description. We are upgrading video
equip't this year, and finding the techie swamp rather dense.

Eisboch wrote:
BTW, I forgot one important item.

Component cables are the only form of consumer video transmission that will
work with the progressive scan output of your DVD player or HD cable
transmission. Composite and S-Video will only support interlaced mode. If
you haven't tried it - progressive scan yields a much smoother image with
less flickering than the older interlaced mode (your old, pre-HD TV set is
interlaced).


Now there's something that nobody else has told me.
Excellent series of posts!

The upgraded video equipment is on our boat: the aft cabin
now sports a swivel-arm mounted 19" LCD, a DVD-R + VHS box,
and a CD/MP3/DVD changer/receiver, and a subwoofer. For
right now, the audio is not fully enabled, partly due to
space constraints. We have 4 pairs of speakers, all of which
need to be rewired as well as switched.... boat work is
never done.

Fair Skies
Doug King

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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----- Original Message -----
From: " JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT com
Newsgroups: rec.boats
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:21 PM
Subject: Yikes! Consumer Electronic Rip...




It is all hype........and all touted by the manufacturers and retailers.

And looking at the differences in prices...........I can understand why.


BTW, I forgot one important item.

Component cables are the only form of consumer video transmission that
will
work with the progressive scan output of your DVD player or HD cable
transmission. Composite and S-Video will only support interlaced mode.
If
you haven't tried it - progressive scan yields a much smoother image with
less flickering than the older interlaced mode (your old, pre-HD TV set
is
interlaced).

Eisboch



I still watch movies on Beta on my 19" black and white TV.....not too much
of a selection of movies at Blockbuster though.

But if I use component cables to connect my Beta to my B&W TV will I have
whiter teeth and a better return on my investments?

" JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT com wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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----- Original Message -----
From: " JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT com
Newsgroups: rec.boats
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:21 PM
Subject: Yikes! Consumer Electronic Rip...




It is all hype........and all touted by the manufacturers and retailers.

And looking at the differences in prices...........I can understand why.


BTW, I forgot one important item.

Component cables are the only form of consumer video transmission that
will
work with the progressive scan output of your DVD player or HD cable
transmission. Composite and S-Video will only support interlaced mode.
If
you haven't tried it - progressive scan yields a much smoother image with
less flickering than the older interlaced mode (your old, pre-HD TV set
is
interlaced).

Eisboch



I still watch movies on Beta on my 19" black and white TV.....not too much
of a selection of movies at Blockbuster though.

But if I use component cables to connect my Beta to my B&W TV will I have
whiter teeth and a better return on my investments?


Only if your fly-back transformer doesn't bite you - or your selenium
rectifier doesn't blow up.

Eisboch

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 21:41:07 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

or your selenium
rectifier doesn't blow up.

There's a smell I hope to never encounter again. :-)

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 21:41:07 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

or your selenium
rectifier doesn't blow up.

There's a smell I hope to never encounter again. :-)


I remember my father tearing the house apart for a week searching for a dead
mouse until the TV finally quit and source of the smell was discovered.

Eisboch

Eisboch,
Are you available for home theater installations?



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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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----- Original Message -----
From: " JimH" jimh_osudad@yahooDOT com
Newsgroups: rec.boats
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:21 PM
Subject: Yikes! Consumer Electronic Rip...




It is all hype........and all touted by the manufacturers and retailers.

And looking at the differences in prices...........I can understand why.


BTW, I forgot one important item.

Component cables are the only form of consumer video transmission that
will
work with the progressive scan output of your DVD player or HD cable
transmission. Composite and S-Video will only support interlaced mode.
If
you haven't tried it - progressive scan yields a much smoother image with
less flickering than the older interlaced mode (your old, pre-HD TV set
is
interlaced).

Eisboch

"Reggie Smithers" wrote in message
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Eisboch,
Are you available for home theater installations?




Funny you should ask. I really got hung up in this for a while and thought
about starting up a part time business. Then reality and sanity clicked in
and I dropped the idea.

Not trying to impress, but when we had one of the houses in Florida I spent
a winter converting an unused, 2 car garage into a kick-ass theater room.
The basic audio/video equipment included high-end speakers from Aerial
Acoustics, an 18" Velodyne servo sub, Yamaha high power 9.1 amp and Hitachi
video projector, projecting onto a 20' x 9' high gain screen. The ceiling
was flat black, thick black rugs, heavy dark wall drapes with matching
cornice boards all around. The room was acoustically "dead" - almost too
much - no echo at all which gave the sound track from movies an imaging
presence that was unbelievable. We ordered and installed some theater
reclining chairs to finish the room up and track lighting with automatic 60
second dimmers.

All told, the stupid room cost almost $50,000.00 to build. We rarely used
it. Fortunately when we sold the house the buyer wanted everything as is,
so I sold it to him and didn't lose anything.

Oh, I also used component video leads. :-)

Eisboch