Justintoxicated

I completly agree, for movies, its better to have a combo HD/BR player anyways than to buy a PS3 just for BR. The prices just need to come down. In fact the only thing keeping the PS3 selling at this point is in fact that it is a better movie player with better output connections. People don't want to pay $500 now for something that shoudl be better in the future. Even the X-box's games will look better later as code is optimized for the system. At this point by the time PS3 gets the support it needs X-box will already have launched the next console.

I dunno man, I see no difference between my dedicated DVD player and my Computers both hooked up to the same 1080p TV/Monitor, hell I think it looks a little better on my computer since it is using a DVI and the DVD is only component (plus I have calibrated my 1080P TV through software which is not possible to do without much more expensive hardware calibration tools), the differences in picture quality (not color) are minimal as either connection is excessive for DVD playback. I do not see any other difference when comparing to my Parents Sony DVD other than it has too much damn region code protection and I can't play all movies. In fact I hate Sony DVD players because of all their decoding regulations. Just to make this clear, you are comparing your computer hooked up via HDMI/DVI to 1080p TV/Monitor to your sony DVD hooked up to the same TV/Monitor hooked up via HDMI/DVI (because it does not sound like this is the case)? I honestly cannot believe you can see a difference since it should be the same digital data being sent to the monitor... Now if you were connecting to your TV via S-video or some such connection then That is the difference you are seeing. I would have to see it to believe it because that is not my experience. Digital data passed by one player should be identical to anothers, it's quite a bit different than the old Analog Processing and conversion. If your PC is not fast enough to process the data, then that is another issue, and like I said newer cards coming out handle hardware decoding so your processor does not have to strain nearly as much. I think it is ridiculous (these days, no offense to your older dvd player or anything) to own a 50lbs DVD player with 6 DAC's then to output it to analog into a reciever. You would be much better off purchasing a dedicated high end receiver and piping in optical or S/PDIF (digital signal) to it and letting the receiver with however many DAC's it needs to decode audio for ALL your devices INCLUIDNG audio from the computer for HT. So Again the point is pretty much moot. That DVD player may have been nice before Digital outputs were out, but having one dedicated receiver that can do what your DVD player is doing audio wise for ALL DEVICES makes a hell of alot more sense. These days DVD/HD/Blue Ray players don't need to have expensive DAC's in them as they can simply pass-through the digital code and let the receiver do the work. The reason sound cards still need DAC's is due to the need for EAX support for games, otherwise Digital outputs are prefered to a high end receiver for HT applications. So actualy you CAN get buy with a tiny Blue-Ray/HD player in a computer just fine. No1 said anything about stuffing a receiver into a HT computer case.... If you need to justify spending $1200 for a dedicated Blue Ray Player vs me spending $270 for the exact same thing for a PC, then I can understand the frustration. But in the end you have the same digital output going to the TV screen... Digital is digital, thicker cables are not going to make digital sound/picture any better than thin/chincy ones so long as the signal is getting to the other side properly (thicker cables are better for long distances yes). I would still pickup an X-box even if it has lower output quality since they are cheaper and have alot more games than a PS3. Neither console is future proof, the only things future proof are things you can upgrade and even then it will only go so far. I'm not much of a sony fan either as everything sony I purchase is typicaly junk. My best sony purchase over the past few years however has been the PSP, so this may not apply to gaming consoles.

looks like stand alone HD/Blue Ray players will be quite expensive. Suddenly $270 is looking like quite a bargin! http://www.dailytech.com/Samsung+Announces...article8186.htm

Yes this will vary cable area to cable area, and service to service, even within the same provider. Cable Companies are using QOS to limit certian traffic to get customers to pay more for certain kinds of data transfers, blocking standardized ports etc. They don't want people using bandwidth for torrent files unless they have excess available. Enabeling encryption in Utorrent and choosing a non standard port will get around this for now since they cannot tell the type of packets you are sending. My ISP is doing the same, eithout encryption I can only download 5-10k for torrent files. Enabeling encryption and my speeds get a hefty boost, although I always get shitty speeds anyways since my cable company is the suck.

Well most of the new cards have replacable DAC's so you can change it to whatever you would like, but then you have to choose either a gaming card that supporst EAX5.0 or something more suitable for HTPC. The Auzentech Prelude is a nice compromise http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...ntech%2bPrelude. Burr brown is not the preference of many people in the HTPC forums, although some say they enjoy the warmer sound from it. Hell buy a card and try them all out untill you find the DAC you want. I don't have audio equipment in my bedroom where I would even notice the difference in DAC's except for perhaps my Audio Tech Headphones. Honestly I don't see the point in using 6 DAC's when a single 24 bit should be plenty for most. After all it is not just which dac is used but how they are implemented. Maybe if your using Electrostats and have a million dollars in equipment you will notice the differences more. However in your case, it would be better to use the optical output to a reciever that has audiofile quality DACs, while using the analog connects to support EAX 5.0 to get the best sound for games (not sure consoles support this?). Remember computer is just another component to some extent, you will still need your TV amplifiers/recievers etc. Those devices should not be counted as they are made to be hooked up to a PC as well. But to say a computer cannot optimaly play back HD or blueray is crazy. There isn't as much demand for it because most people don't even know what a HTPC is currently. I don't know if your DVD player costs as much as my entire PC, maybe it does maybe not, but I would hope NOT! You will be seeing more and more HTPC's poping up in the next few years, IMO I think it is the way of the future, not overpriced equipment with limited functionalities. PVR's CD Changers etc all becomeing integrated though a PC really does make sense. Right now it is the Cable companies not meeting compliance to have working firewire ports on HD boxes that are holding my system back. I have to buy a 3k system to record HD with their box just because they have tampered with the firewire port, and even then I can not hookup the 3k Cable Card tuner because they are not offering cable cards! (RANT). Thus some failure in my system as I cannot receive Pay stations through firewire (It's hit and miss right now from neighborhood to neighborhood). Brad you are correct adding HDMI to X-box really does not make sense, it should only be used if the only free plug you have is HDMI more like an adapter than anything, it this kind of logic that makes people purchase Pear Cables and such because they think the cables make THAT much of a difference in sound... HDMI is not capable of the same resolutions as a dual link DVI cable from a PC, although no TV's out currently exceed 1080p anyways. There are some nice monitors 30"+ that exceed Blueray resolutions though. DVI + Optical/Analog is my connection of choice. HDMI is nice and simple and clean though, but its nice to plug the audio directly into another source if desired. Buying a PS3 or Xbox360 for video playback does not make much sense right now either. I would expect the Dual format players to hit the shelves any day now, as you can already pick one up for a PC for about $270 (I'm not paying that much unless I can burn Blueray!) http://www.ncixus.com/products/index.php?sku=26553 As it is not I would still suggest the X-Box 360 for gaming, because the PS3 can have all the hardware capabilities it wants and it won't make a lick of difference because there are not enough games for it. if they make games for it later then great, the money you saved buy the 360 should cover the PS3 by that point in time. Crazy thing is that if I was able to choose either system for free I would still pick the PS3.

Brad i think your living in the past. TV through my Computer's media center vs cable box looks almost identical, and I can calibrate my TV using my Spyder 2 pro where I cannot calibrate the TV without going through the computer. What do you mean Comptuers can't play DVD's well? I can sit back on my bed with remote and hand and play DVD's HDDVD's watch Divx etc all thoguh Sage Media Center. The new Video cards help do hardware decoding and even if you don't have one of the new cards the processors out these days are easily fast enough to do all the decoding/processing. you can get awesome sound cards that use the same DAC's as high end audio equipment. I honestly have no clue what your talking about here, I think you are not up to date. you must be thinking back to when you had to use power DVD to play everything and jump around with a remote lol. Sure cards cannot be compared directly by their maximum capabilities, but they will be so far ahead of consoles come Q1 I can honestly say that consoles will be nowhere near as close. Already I can tell a hgue differnece in games like Bioshock for PC @ 1080p vs Bioshock for X-box 360. Consoles are typicaly ahead when they first come out due to PC not being a dedicated gaming systems (not optomized), but as of Q1 high end PC's will again be far ahead of conoles until the next generation comes out... After all, new consoles these days are low end PC's that are optimized for gaming. That IS what they are... This is not the new line of cards coming Q1 but will likely be my next purchase for my HTPC/Gaming?workhorse of a PC. http://www.v6batmobile.com/G92/?e01b0f90 interesting abotu the hardware decoding for Blue Ray and HD. Also lists the Capacities of the media.

How much for the Razorbacks? Definately interested in them. Can I do a local Pickup? Where are you located? Or if your heading to glamis this coming weekend... Interested in the seat as well. Let me know!

Cylinders sold, everything else is still avail. I will post if I put stuff on ebay. I have been too buisy.

I'm not getting either, I can pickup a Dual format combo HD/Blue-Ray/ with DVD/CD burner for a fraction of the price right now and toss it in my PC with Sage Media Player (use a remote and all that and access the HD drive and all the other DVD's that are ripped to my computer as well as pause / Record live TV and parse out commercials etc...PC's will be the new king of multimedia as soon as cable companies stop screwing with the firewire ports on the cable boxes. As of now most cables companies have disables alot of content you should be able to get through firewire. I would not recommend either unit for HD or Blue-Ray purposes anymore. Comobo drive are on there way out which is help get rid of all these stupid formatting wars. It will be just like DVD + and - R format combo drives, where all the first ones out quickly became obsolete. I'm just going to grab a new video card for my PC Q1 of next year which will be several times faster than either console the current GTX Ultra already is faster than either system, but the price tag reflects that as well, since it is rumored new cards available Q1 of 08 will double in speed once again the GTX prices should drop to much more reasonable levels. Also the graphics will be better due to updated pixle shaders and DX10 processing. Since I'm using 1080p 37" for a computer monitor the games will look excelent. Granted as of now, there are not many games for PC, since consoles are more affordable,and easier to copy protect while most people don't have 1080p or higher displays anyways. if I was going to buy a console it would be the 360 hands down due to price and game titles since I would be getting it soley for games, however if I could chose either systemm for free I'd grab the top of the line PS3. I think it's funny how PS fans always knocked the x-box when it had better hardware and less games, while now PS3 has better hardware and less games. One Q though does the PS3 offer non wireless LAN? I always prefer a wired connection when possible... While the 360 may enable 1080p support the hardware is not really there to support it. HDMI is needed for 1080p, while some TV's allow 1080p over component video, I don't beleive Component cables meet the HDCP standards.

Unfortunately I usualy end up upgrading power supplies because they always hange connectors and amperage requirments on new stuff. My newest PSU I wanted to switch to modular as well because having lots of cables will block some serious airflow. I can't see regular plugs being viable in the next run of MB's that will support 2 quad core processors for example. Probably going to need over 750 watts for those. but cheap PSU like to burn up or explode if you load them up. Hell even my newest Enermax Modular exploded and let out some smoke. Also cheap/free PSU's generaly do not put out their rated wattage which can cause random lockups blue screens and even death of components. You could honestly have a 350 watt PSU capable of putting out mroe power than a cheap $50 700 watt PSU. Thats why if you have to research and find someone who has bench tested the Power Supplies for Noise, and pwoer output, as well as taken it apart to verify it's overall quality (Cheap caps etc). Cases for sure last the longest which is why I would recommend spending some extra cash there. It does not make it faster but going cheap is like tricking out your banshee and putting some old purple and yellow beat up plastics on it with a worn out K&N filter. Dells are ok, but once you realize they are really just crap inside (Cheap Junk unless you pay top dollar for one) your not really saving much money on anything decent.

http://shopping.yahoo.com/?woot#woot Got mine kicks ass, I can actualy watch videos with a decent size screen and FM Radio which I use at the gym to get TV sound unlike I-pod. Plus no I-tunes! You can even sync with WMP with a couple mods.

Nice I want to play Bioshock at native rez so i put it aside untill next month when I can buy a new card, or I might wait till the new series launch in Jan-Mar to upgrade. new cards will double in speed but I think might require PCIE 2.0 so I may have to build a new PC ... My 7800 Struggles really bad with bioshock at 1920x1080 but at lower resolutions its golden. But I want to play in 1080p! In the meantime I have setup my cable box and 2 HDTV Tuners. I can now record / pause HDTV, parse commmercials and compress files burn them off drive etc unlike a DVR which is really limited in comparison. It also allows access to my entire media library all at the touch of a remote. SageTV is awesome but my stupid Cable company is not allowing proper use of the Firewire ports on the cable box so I cannot record many stations including dicsoveryHD, I don't see how a DVR would work any better with the box working in this manner you can't jsut use an analog connection to record HD to a TIVO/DVR. So still some work untill I get everything working fully. I just need like 3TB in Hard drives so I can put all my DVD's on the PC and access them with the touch of a remote... The Chair and z5500's are perfect for bedroom theater setup, not audiofile quality sound but perfect for my small room. Just picked up one of these to eliminate my 8 or 9 remotes to activate the system. http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmony-880...8495&sr=8-2

Hmmm for me it is hard to work on a single screen lol. But it's ok at home with the 37" I do miss my dual 37's though... Everything up and running ok now?

utorrent + enable encryption.

How close will adding this stuff be to actualy having the fuel injectors cleaned by a dealership? I'm at 42k on mine and have been putting in Lucas Oils injector cleaner / Fuel Addative after every oil change or 2.

Everything is still for sale. Ebay Auctions delayed for a few more days.

Last chance, I will be listing these item on ebay come monday.

If only my bike was together I could be racing up china :wallbash:

Porting is a Passion 12-port setup for dunes, not full drag. Jim estimates about mid 70's with shearer pipes, but I have never had the bike on a dyno and I have never run shearer pipes. It is decently fast and I'd say it probably at least around 68-70 with the setup I had. (Different Dynos always show different results anyways) His regular Dune port was $350 and the 12-port version was $450 at the time. 12-port has 2 large boot ports added to connect to the transfer case which requires material to be welded on the outside of the cylinders for strength. Thanks for looking, -Justin

Grill is sold

Wheel Hub: Front Plastic: Light Covers: Grill: Subwoofer: Grab any of these items before they go on ebay. I will leave them for sale for a week, possibly 2 then back to ebay.

Ok Offering everything that is left over from the last sale, one more time before It goes on ebay... Passion 12 Port Stock Cylinders .02 over (2 sizes over) Comes with used Wisecos forged pistions, Wrist Pin bearings. ($400) OBO White Front Plastics - small crack in front can be cut out to your liking. ($50 + Ship) Bumper - No Dents could use some fresh paint (metalcast undercoat is close match) ($15 + Ship) Double Wide pegs - Cut and Welded by Wallrat ($50 - shipped) These will clear Mattoon Machine Lockup Cover. Stainless Grill ($25 shipped) Light Covers ($15 - shipped) Rear Wheel Hub ($25 shipped) Probox for Nissan Titan KC (Believe it fits Chevy 1500 as well) - 500 - 600 RMS VERY little use. ($125 local pickup, can demo) Double Wide Pegs: Cylinders: Before Painting Ported Current Bumper:

want to trade for 33's pwks + cash? My carbs are too small and yours are too big. Just upgraded to 4mil cub. I think you will be ok with 35's but you will have a bit less snappy response. The 33's were awesome on my Passion 12-port dune stock stroke. I woudl not have gone any smaller although 30-33 is probably the sweet spot.

even water can break bones, Sand is really easy to get hurt on, if you would have sceen all the people in the hospital last time I got an ambulence ride in from eating it in the sand, you would question your hobby.

Or do both, Chromoly aftermarket with unibals and gussets, you can get the top gusset too if necessary. These arms have taken some abuse.