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About this user: Regular on uk.media.dvd and uk.media.home-cinema, amongst other groups
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Recent Messages Posted:
RE: Picture too far left (Region 1 thru RGB scart)
RGB picture shift is quite common, although unwanted.
It can be fixed with some televisions in the service menu or on others by selecting NTSC358 or PAL in the tv menu (providing the tv has that option).
RE: toshiba dvdrom locked on r1 need help
What is the model? Some are RPC1 and some are RPC2
However, a number of the RPC2 Toshiba drives have got modified firmwares.
RE: Sony DAV-s300 help please.
1 - scart is a connection method. Scart can carry, in order of preference, RGB, s-video and composite. A 3 phono connection will be composite. It you have a Toshiba television you would prefer the s-video signal but on most other sets you would prefer RGB.
2 - it would be an improvement over a £5.99 scart lead but as to how huge would depend on the quality and size of your tv. Shielded cabling is more important than gold plate.
3 - none - you are asking what is the difference between a car and petrol. As for signal quality, i refer you to my answer to 1.
4 - correct. However, you are better off using s-video via the scart which will carry audio and widescreen switching signals via pin 8 where relevant.
5 - s-video or composite.
6 - scart to scart carrying s-video would be best.
RE: Best buy for Region 1?
Best of all for R1 is www.dvdpricesearch.com (configure to UK delivery and it does all the work).
Still worth a look at www.play247.com if the US sites come out above the £17 mark.
RE: Buffy Season 2 picture quality
Well BTVS season 3 is in anamorphic widescreen and if the BBC screened versions are anything to go by, we will be very happy with the DVD quality when it comes.
RE: Buffy Finale: Good episode- Spoiler alert
I may have seen it first on sky but i cannot wait until the anamorphic widescreen version of this last series to be shown on BBC.
Why oh why do sky insist on staying with the old 4:3 versions?
RE: dvd rce problem
I have the Sony 725 (Techtronics Auto/Manual mod) too and don`t have a problem with RCE.
You may have problems if your player defaulted to R2 and then try auto-select. However if you manually change the player to R1 and use auto-select you will have no difficulties like the others have mentioned. Basically you are making the player think it is R1 as default and will auto select region 2 or 4 when needed.
RE: 32`` Widescreen Telly for £299
The difference in the quality of televisions is noticeable. The problem is that most mainstream retailers link the televisions up to a crappy aerial system that can make one set appear better than the other. When indeed it could be the other way round on an equal source.
Although £299 for a 32" is a good price. Its too good. Asda sold some schneider televisions at 28" and 32". The 28" supported NTSC but the 32" didn`t. It was dropped to save costs. Tesco`s sold wharfedale televisions that didn`t switch to wide mode upon detecion of an anamorphic widescreen signal. They were cheap but how many people are watching anamorphic widescreen with distorted pictures and the top and bottom cropped because they don`t realise their television isn`t switching to the right mode (also happens on the wharfefale dvd players).
ITV will begin to broadcast all the regions on skydigital some time later this year or early next. However, the fear is that ITV will move some champions league and the odd formula one race to one of the OnD only channels.
RE: Dolby Digital!!! what amps etc have you got and how do you find them!
I paid £600 for my Harmon Kardon AVR500.
I did listen to a number of amps and many of them you couldn`t tell the difference when listening to a film soundtrack. The biggest difference was when listening to music.
There are big differences between the amps but the biggest difference is in the speakers. No point buying an expensive amp if the speakers are not up to the job. Good speakers is where the money should be spent.
RE: Home cinema systems-Yamaha AVS-7-redundant apart from DVD sound ?
Depends on what you mean by dormant and the speakers you are going to purchase or already have which you are going to use with it.
Currently, in the UK, only laserdisc and DVD supports DD5.1/DTS.
Sky digital are reported to considering DD5.1 some time this year but the majority of the current digiboxes have no optical out/co-ax.
However, a number of broacasts are DPL and even stereo or mono will sound better through a fairly cheap amp and speakers than the sound system of the television.
When you connect the audio up to the amp, the television sound will become dormant and you will use the amp for everything. You will not use it just for DVD.
RE: is dts much better than dolby digital 5.1
I am surprised at the responses given so far. I would only have to put it down to the fact that the people who have responded have not been in a position to compare DTS to DD5.1
Firstly, both sound systems are very good. However, DD5.1 is more compressed than DTS and will drop sounds that you will hear on the DTS version.
An explosion is an explosion and that probably isn`t the best place to listen for differences. Although you will still have other background noises during an explosion which may not be as apparant on the DD5.1 version. You need to listen during the quieter stages of the film for discreet noises. Often its the background noises that gets dropped with DD5.1 whereas they are crisp and present on the DTS version. Sound positioning is a little better on DTS too.
RE: DVD - a few questions
"can only try and answer the first one. You would be best having a DVD player going straight to the TV without chaining it through VCRS or a digibox, this way you avoid macrovision and also makes things a lot simply and easier =) . "
"DVD ------ Scart ------- TV"
response:
The reason for getting a dvd player with 2 scarts is to allow him to connect the digibox and the dvd player up to the RGB scart rather than having to use s-video scart or composite scart.
Digibox > DVD > TV (using RGB scart)
2 scarts on the dvd player was an important issue to me when i bought my dvd player and that is why i went with a Sony dvd player.
In the end however, it turned out to be irrelevant as I have a Toshiba television and they handle s-video better than they do RGB so i connect up using the s-video scart instead.
Some equipment does not handle the passing of signals too well. You may only find out after you purchase that you are not able to use pass through without a loss of signal. quality
RE: RGB Scart Socket
It`s an often asked question and its one that the magazines seem to be very out of date on.
Generally, RGB is best, s-video is second and composite is last.
However, there are certain brands of television, Toshiba being the main one, where s-video, whilst viewing NTSC, is better than RGB.
Use your own eyes and decide for yourself as clayts says.