Have you checked what shipping one of those things would cost? Bout $6 if I tried to order. They don't offer free shipping on orders from the marketplace, either.
Have you checked what shipping one of those things would cost? Bout $6 if I tried to order. They don't offer free shipping on orders from the marketplace, either.
All the ones I selected had free shipping if the price reaches 25 for the order..
So I found out that xbox360 HD drive will work on PC.. Think i am going to pick one up for 20.
Just in case you don't have it, if you're going to use an HD-DVD drive on a PC you still need software like a recent version of PowerDVD or Total Media Theater to play the HD-DVD discs.
So I found out that xbox360 HD drive will work on PC.. Think i am going to pick one up for 20.
Just in case you don't have it, if you're going to use an HD-DVD drive on a PC you still need software like a recent version of PowerDVD or Total Media Theater to play the HD-DVD discs.
Any free options?
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Have you checked what shipping one of those things would cost? Bout $6 if I tried to order. They don't offer free shipping on orders from the marketplace, either.
All the ones I selected had free shipping if the price reaches 25 for the order..
8 new movies for 34 bucks not bad.
Hmm, I don't know about how Amazon does it in the States for sure, but in Canada the Free Shipping offer is only available when buying items from Amazon, not the marketplace, which is where you see those 0.01 movies.
I could buy $500 of 0.01 movies on Amazon.ca, but I'm pretty sure I am paying each individual seller a shipping charge. It's actually more expensive than buying them brand new off of Amazon for regular price.
Have you checked what shipping one of those things would cost? Bout $6 if I tried to order. They don't offer free shipping on orders from the marketplace, either.
All the ones I selected had free shipping if the price reaches 25 for the order..
8 new movies for 34 bucks not bad.
Hmm, I don't know about how Amazon does it in the States for sure, but in Canada the Free Shipping offer is only available when buying items from Amazon, not the marketplace, which is where you see those 0.01 movies.
I could buy $500 of 0.01 movies on Amazon.ca, but I'm pretty sure I am paying each individual seller a shipping charge. It's actually more expensive than buying them brand new off of Amazon for regular price.
1. Place at least $25 of eligible Amazon.com products in your Shopping Cart. (Eligible items will say "eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping ..." next to their price.)
2. Proceed to checkout.
3. Ship your items to a single U.S. address.
4. Select "Group my items into as few shipments as possible" as your shipping preference.
5. Select Super Saver Shipping as your shipping speed. Once your items are available, your order will be delivered within 5-9 business days.
Interesting review on the front of HDGuru.com right now for Samsung's 3D offering. Their one issue is that it seems that the 3D functionality of the TV suffered from "crosstalk", where one of your eyes is getting the image intended for the other. Panasonic didn't have this problem. The 2D->3D conversion the TV offers is exactly what most people thought it would be: good in some cases, appalling in others.
They will not. That is a software thing included in the new TVs. If you want to go 2D to 3D you will need to buy some sort of third party converter, or hook up your computer and download software. I've seen Tridef in google searches as one possible solution for this.
They will not. That is a software thing included in the new TVs. If you want to go 2D to 3D you will need to buy some sort of third party converter, or hook up your computer and download software. I've seen Tridef in google searches as one possible solution for this.
Poop!
How is 3D, anyway? I've never actually seen it, in a movie theater or on a TV. Is it actually something that's cool and worth buying hardware for or is it kind of a gimmick?
My Samsung 5087s LED DLP supports 3D, but I guess I need some kind of emitter/adapter in addition to the glasses.
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They will not. That is a software thing included in the new TVs. If you want to go 2D to 3D you will need to buy some sort of third party converter, or hook up your computer and download software. I've seen Tridef in google searches as one possible solution for this.
Poop!
How is 3D, anyway? I've never actually seen it, in a movie theater or on a TV. Is it actually something that's cool and worth buying hardware for or is it kind of a gimmick?
My Samsung 5087s LED DLP supports 3D, but I guess I need some kind of emitter/adapter in addition to the glasses.
So far I've only seen it in a movie theater. I'm interested to try it in a store as these TVs roll out (I've been too slammed by school to even venture into Best Buy for anything except South Park Season 13), but I question how great the experience will be in that kind of setting. In the movie theater, I've seen Up and Avatar so I am by no means an expert on the experience. However, there was a definite difference between the movie that was made from the ground up to be 3D and the movie that was converted to it. Up was cool 3D. There were definitely effects that stood out. Would I say they substantially improved my movie experience? No. By the end of the movie my eyes were starting to get tired. In contrast, Avatar was fucking phenomenal 3D and I honestly feel a large part of that (particularly the floating islands) would have not made as big an impression had I not been using 3D.
That being said my eyes were getting tired throughout the last 15-20 minutes of Avatar, and I really don't think 3D for long periods of gaming is going to be a good idea for your eyes. For sports viewing, it seems completely ridiculous...a bunch of guys are gonna sit around in nerdy glasses watching the game for 3 hours? That's if there's a $150 pair of glasses for each person. And are people really going to put on some glasses to watch their favorite episode of Two and a Half Men? Or Jay Leno?
Quite a number of people put specific glasses on to read, ok that's necessity rather than choice but it's not overly different.
Then again I'm all excited for 3d so I'm slightly biased
That is possibly one of the most nonsensical and irrelevant comparisons I have ever seen. There are definitely theories out there that support the idea many have that 3D is really going to take off, but a reading-glasses theory sure as shit ain't one of them.
Though since we are talking about 3D these guys have a pretty good high-level summary of everything related to it. I still don't quite understand how the PS3 is somehow gonna upgrade itself to 1.4 HDMI.
Quite a number of people put specific glasses on to read, ok that's necessity rather than choice but it's not overly different.
Then again I'm all excited for 3d so I'm slightly biased
That is possibly one of the most nonsensical and irrelevant comparisons I have ever seen. There are definitely theories out there that support the idea many have that 3D is really going to take off, but a reading-glasses theory sure as shit ain't one of them.
Though since we are talking about 3D these guys have a pretty good high-level summary of everything related to it. I still don't quite understand how the PS3 is somehow gonna upgrade itself to 1.4 HDMI.
Firmware updates. It's not as though HDMI 1.4 cables will have some kind of new pin configuration. it's just a rating for maximum data throughput.
Probably lack of a built in system to update firmware over the inter-tubes, and the cost of support and development of a new firmware that would theoretically be distributed at no profit to an ungrateful consumer base vs the profit made on a second hardware sale.
I don't want to jump on the band wagon here, I mean I thought the 3d in Avatar really added something to the movie, however, I think the fact that this tech is being pushed out so quickly is a pretty strong indicator of just how stable manufacturers consider the market to be.
Firmware updates. It's not as though HDMI 1.4 cables will have some kind of new pin configuration. it's just a rating for maximum data throughput.
Actually I believe there is a hardware component to the HDMI spec, and thats why the PS3 slim supports the bitstreaming stuff while the PS3 fat does not.
I could be wrong, and if I am I welcome correction, but it was my understanding that the bit streaming decoding required a different hardware component, but all full size hdmi ports are the same mechanically.
Well the HDMI spec for v 1.3 includes cabaility to bitstream TrueHD/DTS-MA, and the PS3 phat cannot. It is not HDMI 1.3, and yes it's because it was shipped with hardware incapable of making it full HDMI v.1.3.
I'm not speaking of the physical specification of the cable or connector.
Edit: When I said the PS3 fat wasn't HDMI 1.3 I suppose I was incorrect since (per Wikipedia) "A product listed as having a HDMI version does not necessarily mean that it will have all of the features that are listed for that version," ... but (from same article) "all non-cable products will also suffer the removal of the number naming and instead will be required to say exactly what parts of the HDMI connection specification they support and will be required to do so effective Jan. 1, 2012."
That whole bitstream decoding thing was the most recent example of a company leveraging market ignorance to convince consumers that something meaningless is actually some really cool new feature. Kind of like Samsung Touch Of Color before it.
Wasn't trying to derail, or bothering to imply the bitstream capability was a value-add.
Just elaborating on how HDMI is more then a cable/connector specification, it includes protocols, color specs, resolution capabilities, and various required features to attain a particular HDMI version spec and label.
I don't consider this conversation derailing for a thread about televisions, and please, this stuff is my favorite hobby I always welcome new knowledge.
I was under the impression that say, with the ps3, the hdmi port is connected to some bus on the main board of the unit, and that the board is going to be composed of a disk reading apparatus, and a processor, and some form of memory where all the codecs etc are stored. The cable port for any hdmi spec is the same, and I imagine the bus is as well, I thought the differences were to be found in the cable being able to support a higher data throughput from a different faster data protocol.. Something akin to how a cat5, cat5e, and cat6 cable are all the same cord, just of differing quality.
Wasn't trying to derail, or bothering to imply the bitstream capability was a value-add.
Just elaborating on how HDMI is more then a cable/connector specification, it includes protocols, color specs, resolution capabilities, and various required features to attain a particular HDMI version spec and label.
Oh well we will not have to worry about any of this anymore once intel comes out with its Light Peak.
Question: has anyone actually SEEN a 3DTV in stores? I had a rare moment of free time in Best Buy a couple days ago and figured I'd head over to the TV section to see what kinds of demo material they were using with the new sets, and I couldn't find jackshit. Still a bunch of 2009s running around, with some 2010 models that were non-3D.
Question: has anyone actually SEEN a 3DTV in stores? I had a rare moment of free time in Best Buy a couple days ago and figured I'd head over to the TV section to see what kinds of demo material they were using with the new sets, and I couldn't find jackshit. Still a bunch of 2009s running around, with some 2010 models that were non-3D.
Only some of them ahve demos for 3dtv
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Question: has anyone actually SEEN a 3DTV in stores? I had a rare moment of free time in Best Buy a couple days ago and figured I'd head over to the TV section to see what kinds of demo material they were using with the new sets, and I couldn't find jackshit. Still a bunch of 2009s running around, with some 2010 models that were non-3D.
I saw one in a Best Buy the other day. I don't remember the model or anything, but they were running Monsters vs Aliens. They had a pair glasses hanging off of a post.
It might have been just a shitty movie with which to demo the TV, but it was pretty damn gimmicky in its 3D effect. It reminded me of my old dinosaur books I used to get when I was a kid...
Question: has anyone actually SEEN a 3DTV in stores? I had a rare moment of free time in Best Buy a couple days ago and figured I'd head over to the TV section to see what kinds of demo material they were using with the new sets, and I couldn't find jackshit. Still a bunch of 2009s running around, with some 2010 models that were non-3D.
I saw one in a Best Buy the other day. I don't remember the model or anything, but they were running Monsters vs Aliens. They had a pair glasses hanging off of a post.
It might have been just a shitty movie with which to demo the TV, but it was pretty damn gimmicky in its 3D effect. It reminded me of my old dinosaur books I used to get when I was a kid...
"Oh no! The T-Rex is in 3D!"
The CEO of Dreamworks Animation just did an interview where he pulled no punches on the technology, and said that in his opinion if the industry continues down this post-film 2D-to-3D gimmickly conversion shit (instead of natural 3D shooting) it's going to get old and die REAL fast.
I don't consider this conversation derailing for a thread about televisions, and please, this stuff is my favorite hobby I always welcome new knowledge.
I was under the impression that say, with the ps3, the hdmi port is connected to some bus on the main board of the unit, and that the board is going to be composed of a disk reading apparatus, and a processor, and some form of memory where all the codecs etc are stored. The cable port for any hdmi spec is the same, and I imagine the bus is as well, I thought the differences were to be found in the cable being able to support a higher data throughput from a different faster data protocol.. Something akin to how a cat5, cat5e, and cat6 cable are all the same cord, just of differing quality.
HDMI handles transport and this can be broken down into logical and physical components. The cable and connectors themselves only handle the physical part of transport (providing an electrical path for bits to flow between devices).
The connectors are well-specified in the spec, though there is likely provisions in place to handle new types of connectors for different applications.
Without getting into a discussion of the value/performance of various brands of cabling, cables of different construction are going to vary in the max bandwidth they are capable of delivering. As the required data bandwidth increases (to support the demands of new features such as higher color depth, resolution, and additional performance or communications features) cable makers will re-design cable construction to handle what's needed. There's no need to build and mass-produce cables that can handle a terabit of bandwidth if source materials, source devices and display devices can only handle 45 Gbits of throughput.
The logical component of transport will be the protocols used to transmit and receive data reliably (e.g. HDCP, TMDS, DDC, AV Link). There will need to be a logic on the transmitting and receiving devices to handle the logical component of transport.
How exactly the logic is implemented is up to the device manufacturer, it could be a network of vacuum tubes, an array of mechanical logic gates, or it could be that it's implemented in software so the main processor (the Cell in a PS3) does this. Most likely this piece has been modularized, and at this point it has been reduced to a single dedicated HDMI controller chip (and due to the commoditization of HDMI-enabled devices, chances are good that a handful of chip manufacturers producing several different patented implementations define 99%+ of the market).
You could compare it to another spec like USB. The USB controller, plus the connector, plus the cable work to gether to provide a USB link between devices.
One piece of this that is confusing, is that although HDMI-enabled devices may be firmware upgradeable (e.g. the PS3 or some Blu-Ray players), it is unclear whether the HDMI controller chips are firmware upgradeable, so the logic on them is going to stay the same as it was shipped even if the devices firmware is upgraded. Controller chips being firmware upgradeable is not the norm, though there are devices that allow it like BIOS and optical drives. So although there may be features added to the device, I'm not sure how much of the HDMI spec upgradeability of the device is going to be dependent upon the logic baked into the HDMI controller chip. Presumably, the difference between the PS3 fat and PS3 slim is the slim uses a newer HDMI controller chip that has increased functionality over the older version.
To extend the USB:HDMI analogy, although you may be able to flash your computers firmware, the USB controller is not flashable to upgrade it from USB2 to wireless USB or USB3.
my best buy had the 3dtv set up in the area with the couch and sound system setup. most best buys have that. so check that area and if it's not 3dtv, then your place doesn't have it.
I've had an 37LG50 for a year and a half now--it's served me very well, and the picture is excellent. Problem is, I think the remote is dead.
The lights still come on, but the remote just doesn't signal the TV. I tried swapping out the batteries too--nothing.
I was hoping that it could be solved by resetting the remote or something of the like, but I haven't seen anything on it. I'm really hoping that it's just the remote that is broken, and the the TV receiver isn't dead, as I really don't want to have to replace the entire television.
Any suggestions, or is there anything I've overlooked?
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You could also get 20x $5 foot longs...
What's the point?
Vs getting just a stand alone player. I could have a 360 that I can put XBMC on and play HD DVDs at 1080p for 120.00
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Almost free HD DVDs ranging from 0.01 cents to 99 cents + shipping...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000QEIOTO/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1270232992&sr=8-1-catcorr&condition=new
Have you checked what shipping one of those things would cost? Bout $6 if I tried to order. They don't offer free shipping on orders from the marketplace, either.
All the ones I selected had free shipping if the price reaches 25 for the order..
8 new movies for 34 bucks not bad.
Any free options?
Hmm, I don't know about how Amazon does it in the States for sure, but in Canada the Free Shipping offer is only available when buying items from Amazon, not the marketplace, which is where you see those 0.01 movies.
I could buy $500 of 0.01 movies on Amazon.ca, but I'm pretty sure I am paying each individual seller a shipping charge. It's actually more expensive than buying them brand new off of Amazon for regular price.
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Poop!
How is 3D, anyway? I've never actually seen it, in a movie theater or on a TV. Is it actually something that's cool and worth buying hardware for or is it kind of a gimmick?
My Samsung 5087s LED DLP supports 3D, but I guess I need some kind of emitter/adapter in addition to the glasses.
TOO BAD I HAVE NO SOUND BECAUSE THE TRIAL VERSION DOES NOT SUPPORT SOUND
So far I've only seen it in a movie theater. I'm interested to try it in a store as these TVs roll out (I've been too slammed by school to even venture into Best Buy for anything except South Park Season 13), but I question how great the experience will be in that kind of setting. In the movie theater, I've seen Up and Avatar so I am by no means an expert on the experience. However, there was a definite difference between the movie that was made from the ground up to be 3D and the movie that was converted to it. Up was cool 3D. There were definitely effects that stood out. Would I say they substantially improved my movie experience? No. By the end of the movie my eyes were starting to get tired. In contrast, Avatar was fucking phenomenal 3D and I honestly feel a large part of that (particularly the floating islands) would have not made as big an impression had I not been using 3D.
That being said my eyes were getting tired throughout the last 15-20 minutes of Avatar, and I really don't think 3D for long periods of gaming is going to be a good idea for your eyes. For sports viewing, it seems completely ridiculous...a bunch of guys are gonna sit around in nerdy glasses watching the game for 3 hours? That's if there's a $150 pair of glasses for each person. And are people really going to put on some glasses to watch their favorite episode of Two and a Half Men? Or Jay Leno?
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Then again I'm all excited for 3d so I'm slightly biased
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That is possibly one of the most nonsensical and irrelevant comparisons I have ever seen. There are definitely theories out there that support the idea many have that 3D is really going to take off, but a reading-glasses theory sure as shit ain't one of them.
Though since we are talking about 3D these guys have a pretty good high-level summary of everything related to it. I still don't quite understand how the PS3 is somehow gonna upgrade itself to 1.4 HDMI.
PSN: TheScrublet
Firmware updates. It's not as though HDMI 1.4 cables will have some kind of new pin configuration. it's just a rating for maximum data throughput.
PSN: TheScrublet
I don't want to jump on the band wagon here, I mean I thought the 3d in Avatar really added something to the movie, however, I think the fact that this tech is being pushed out so quickly is a pretty strong indicator of just how stable manufacturers consider the market to be.
Actually I believe there is a hardware component to the HDMI spec, and thats why the PS3 slim supports the bitstreaming stuff while the PS3 fat does not.
I'm not speaking of the physical specification of the cable or connector.
Edit: When I said the PS3 fat wasn't HDMI 1.3 I suppose I was incorrect since (per Wikipedia) "A product listed as having a HDMI version does not necessarily mean that it will have all of the features that are listed for that version," ... but (from same article) "all non-cable products will also suffer the removal of the number naming and instead will be required to say exactly what parts of the HDMI connection specification they support and will be required to do so effective Jan. 1, 2012."
PSN: TheScrublet
Just elaborating on how HDMI is more then a cable/connector specification, it includes protocols, color specs, resolution capabilities, and various required features to attain a particular HDMI version spec and label.
I was under the impression that say, with the ps3, the hdmi port is connected to some bus on the main board of the unit, and that the board is going to be composed of a disk reading apparatus, and a processor, and some form of memory where all the codecs etc are stored. The cable port for any hdmi spec is the same, and I imagine the bus is as well, I thought the differences were to be found in the cable being able to support a higher data throughput from a different faster data protocol.. Something akin to how a cat5, cat5e, and cat6 cable are all the same cord, just of differing quality.
Oh well we will not have to worry about any of this anymore once intel comes out with its Light Peak.
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Only some of them ahve demos for 3dtv
I saw one in a Best Buy the other day. I don't remember the model or anything, but they were running Monsters vs Aliens. They had a pair glasses hanging off of a post.
It might have been just a shitty movie with which to demo the TV, but it was pretty damn gimmicky in its 3D effect. It reminded me of my old dinosaur books I used to get when I was a kid...
"Oh no! The T-Rex is in 3D!"
The CEO of Dreamworks Animation just did an interview where he pulled no punches on the technology, and said that in his opinion if the industry continues down this post-film 2D-to-3D gimmickly conversion shit (instead of natural 3D shooting) it's going to get old and die REAL fast.
PSN: TheScrublet
HDMI handles transport and this can be broken down into logical and physical components. The cable and connectors themselves only handle the physical part of transport (providing an electrical path for bits to flow between devices).
The connectors are well-specified in the spec, though there is likely provisions in place to handle new types of connectors for different applications.
Without getting into a discussion of the value/performance of various brands of cabling, cables of different construction are going to vary in the max bandwidth they are capable of delivering. As the required data bandwidth increases (to support the demands of new features such as higher color depth, resolution, and additional performance or communications features) cable makers will re-design cable construction to handle what's needed. There's no need to build and mass-produce cables that can handle a terabit of bandwidth if source materials, source devices and display devices can only handle 45 Gbits of throughput.
The logical component of transport will be the protocols used to transmit and receive data reliably (e.g. HDCP, TMDS, DDC, AV Link). There will need to be a logic on the transmitting and receiving devices to handle the logical component of transport.
How exactly the logic is implemented is up to the device manufacturer, it could be a network of vacuum tubes, an array of mechanical logic gates, or it could be that it's implemented in software so the main processor (the Cell in a PS3) does this. Most likely this piece has been modularized, and at this point it has been reduced to a single dedicated HDMI controller chip (and due to the commoditization of HDMI-enabled devices, chances are good that a handful of chip manufacturers producing several different patented implementations define 99%+ of the market).
You could compare it to another spec like USB. The USB controller, plus the connector, plus the cable work to gether to provide a USB link between devices.
One piece of this that is confusing, is that although HDMI-enabled devices may be firmware upgradeable (e.g. the PS3 or some Blu-Ray players), it is unclear whether the HDMI controller chips are firmware upgradeable, so the logic on them is going to stay the same as it was shipped even if the devices firmware is upgraded. Controller chips being firmware upgradeable is not the norm, though there are devices that allow it like BIOS and optical drives. So although there may be features added to the device, I'm not sure how much of the HDMI spec upgradeability of the device is going to be dependent upon the logic baked into the HDMI controller chip. Presumably, the difference between the PS3 fat and PS3 slim is the slim uses a newer HDMI controller chip that has increased functionality over the older version.
To extend the USB:HDMI analogy, although you may be able to flash your computers firmware, the USB controller is not flashable to upgrade it from USB2 to wireless USB or USB3.
I've had an 37LG50 for a year and a half now--it's served me very well, and the picture is excellent. Problem is, I think the remote is dead.
The lights still come on, but the remote just doesn't signal the TV. I tried swapping out the batteries too--nothing.
I was hoping that it could be solved by resetting the remote or something of the like, but I haven't seen anything on it. I'm really hoping that it's just the remote that is broken, and the the TV receiver isn't dead, as I really don't want to have to replace the entire television.
Any suggestions, or is there anything I've overlooked?