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MikeEby · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 5238 Location: Osceola, Indiana

I had a E6600 Core 2 Dual I replaced with a quad core a few months back. The motherboard had some bad caps on it, I finally got around to re-capping it. I also had a couple of 1GB ram modules I got from someone that upgraded to 8GB. The video card was an AT 45xx I bought from Newegg to replace one for a customer, that turned out not to be bad so I was stuck it, think I only paid about $45 for it. The machine has no optical drive, I used my trusty USB XBox HD-DVD drive to load the OS.

I'll most of the time I'll watch a movie in the theater when I really want to get into it. Just finished Knight and Day, really fun picture with lots of great chase scenes. Often times I'll watch it again upstairs just to have on in the background, like right now. I'm trying to ween myself off of MSNBC. Smile

Mike

ecrabb · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 5:03 am Post subject:

Gotcha. Gotta keep shopping and I guess eventually I'll find a bargain.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 12:07 pm Post subject:

Had another wonderful issue that took me 2 hours of farting around to fix, see here: http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=286699#286699

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10273

It was assumed that the newest platform would embrace the 21st century of telecommunications and utilize dynamic storage, firmware upgrades, and Internet connectivity to expand features within the platform as time passed.

Maybe you should stick with DVDs? I hear Superbit scaled is nice and trouble free. Very Happy

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 4:40 pm Post subject:

greg_mitch · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 5321

AR...if you read inside the case there is a piece of paper that says what you expected isn't the case and you might need to update your player in order to play the disc.

They should probably put this on the cover and not inside...you wouldn't know until you purchased the disc.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:49 pm Post subject:

ecrabb · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 6:02 pm Post subject:

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6637

I buy most of my blu rays from Amazon. If it won't play on my player I return it for a refund and it goes back to the company that made the disk. If they get a bunch of returns they might rethink about authoring another disk in the same manner.

Avatar was a good example. Amazon issued a refund and they didn't even want the disc back due to all the returns because of the many DRM issues....

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 6:20 pm Post subject:

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 6:21 pm Post subject:

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10273

Guys, blame the studios and not the Blu-ray disk technology. If it were not for overly paranoid DRM and the necessity to perceive 'must add value' (ahem, "fluff") to a title then none of this would be a problem. It isn't a case of the technology not being ready, but some studios trying to handcuff the consumer and other trying to make more of it than it needs to be.

And DVD suffers from the same crap. I still have titles on both formats that prohibit me from skipping commercials and the You Are Guilty, Period pieced.

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

I was talking with my best friend about blu ray players recently. He said his sister in law told him the the PS3 is the most up to date and compatible player out there. Does it work in a PS3?

ecrabb · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:20 am Post subject:

I'd bet money it would work fine in a ps3. I'm not exaggerating when I say there literally isn't a single Blu-ray that hasn't played in my ps3. Were talking probably a couple hundred or more discs and not a single problem. Of course, it's always updated.

My original Tron disc is another story... Locks up the ps3 player, crashes the DVD player in OS X, and crashes the old toshiba hd-xa1. Not sure what the he'll happened to that thing. Anybody ever had a DVD "rot" like some of the old LD's did?

SC

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

Sounds like Annie is correct. Whenever I get out to LA again, I need to sit down and talk with her.
http://corporate.disney.go.com/studiocareers/images/Annie_Chang_Spotlight_FINAL.pdf

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10273

Hmm, maybe I should put the PS3 Slim in the HT and take out the BX1 (S350 knockoff). Today I get to play some more with the Denon AVR on the network (it has web browser control by IP) using the wife's iPad. It'd be nice if the PS3 did also.