Trouble Maker

Never trust anyone with two first names or a log cabin republican.

The other night you were trying to figure out how much you would pay to be able to do that.

That and he took my kind of lame in the first place joke and spun it with another joke which he got wrong anyways.

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Yup the tube thingey. Looks like it could be a tube style sub. But you wouldn't have a sub in those stereo setups anyways so I should have known better.

Ah, I read your 'yep' incorrectly. Pretty much agree with your post but I have mixed feelings about unions, mostly bad though.

I'll give you my 3gs for s a set of any of those speakers. Is that an SVS sub? Not even sure they make them in white but would be very surprised if you carry them. Though I'm sure they aren't the only ones making sono tube style subs.

Oh, I know, I've been in (and almost worked there...) a few times. That apartment is just awesome. It has to be a great tool to show what you're capable of from a home automation standpoint. I'll just want to buy new speakers if I come in.

i dunt knuw whuts wrung wit his post?

Is he going to pre-heat the paint to make it cure quicker?

Lol... I think. Is that the engine Peter North uses?

Stuff that I can't afford... while focusing on other things that I consider more financially important right now. I have a nice TV (40" 1080P Samsung), HD-DVD (will do blu ray at some point). nice 5.1 setup (onkyo 606 and these speakers). I'd just like much nicer stuff (better sounding speakers), but I'm happy with what I have for now. Also in a much larger space, like a basement with a projector when I get a house (which would take larger speakers and possibly more power than what my receiver has). That will be the big push for new stuff (house hopefully with a basement in a few years). I'm pretty limited by the size of my apartment, having walls attached to neighbors, for now. Only thing I may do between now and then is build a set of box's for subs and get a dedicated external amp. Not that I could use it, but I like the idea of 2 subs and I like the idea of building some speakers too. I almost got the NHT ST4's a few years back from you guys (along with center and rears). Decided against it at the time ($$$$), but my dad still ended up picking up the ST4's for his stereo setup. I think it's a shame NHT got out of that price bracket for floor standing speakers. I fell it's a very competitive price point and withing reach of an 'average' person who wants very nice speakers. I still love listening to the ST-4's when I go over to my parents. http://www.nhthifi.com/current/products/vintage/st4.html

See you in a few years if you are still there when can afford the type of equipment I really want. :bangbang: Maybe that's because BB floor sales people are idiots (generally speaking). Good luck with the upgrade. Are you having to pay the difference or did you finally convince them there was something wrong with your other TV and they are hooking you up?

I was going to mention you guys, I thought I remember you saying that you worked there. Are you in sales, just wondering? Good group of guys over there from my experience. :thumbup: At the very least use this as an excuse to have Ken show you around their showrooms. By 'tech' do you mean someone from Best Buy? I surely hope not. Why not borrow someone else's Blu Ray player and see if that fixes it. If so, the easiest and cheapest thing might be forcing them to take the player back for another one (especially if you bought both the TV and player from there), or just selling it and buying another one that you know works. You're welcome to borrow my HD-DVD player and a few movies if you come pick it up and drop it back in a reasonable period of time (and maybe leave a deposit of some sort...). It does up to 1080P/24fps (or1080P, 1080i, etc), so should be able to output whatever your TV can take. I'd play with every output setting and input setting that you can. Are you trying to output 1080P to a TV which can take 1080P? Just wondering because if you are good, if not, like I said, try playing around with that. The TV may just not 'like' the signal you are feeding it. If you don't send a signal of the native resolution to the TV, the TV has to do scaling (changing resolution) and/or interlacing/interlacing (changing frame rate). Every TV has input resolutions/frame rates that it can handle better than others, and there is not general rule about which ones all TV's should do better. The DVD player does this too. Sometimes the DVD player will do a better job than the TV, but sometimes the TV will do a better job. Having said all of that, I'm assuming you are trying to output 1080P/24 (blu rays 'native' resolution) to a 1080P display (1080P at 60 fps). Try to output 1080P (60fps) to your TV, maybe your TV doesn't like to do the interlacing (called 3:2 pull down because 24 doesn't directly convert into 60, it's not easy to do). Maybe your DVD player is better at doing that. Does your TV have a 'display' button to see what resolution it's getting, or can you see what your DVD player is putting out (i.e. mine will say what it's outputing on startup or whenever it changes). If you TV and player are having problems with HDCP handshakes I think the player will usually output a much lower resolution (480P I think). When the player or display can't confirm that the signal is secure it won't ouput high resolution for fear(mongering) that it's being copied. If this is what's happening try turning the TV on first, then the DVD player. Try turning the DVD player on first, then the TV. Try disconnecting the HDMI cable and reconnecting it. Try connecting via component (will still run at 1080P, just not all digitial). If you’re TV and DVD player have CE controls, try turning the DVD on with the CE controls through the TV. For example my combo sometimes has some HDCP handshake issues and it takes care of that when the player is turned on via the CE controls with the TV. Weird, but HDMI is a shitty ‘standard’. Knowing nothing about the situation, but just going off of your statement of “looks like an SD source unconverted” I’m leaning towards that last one because HDCP handshake issues are pretty common. Sorry for that being rambly, feel free to ask any other questions or PM me and we can chat more. If you really want to get your TV calibrated, get with Ken (iwishiwascool). Or, I don't frequent this site or know anyone who does ISF calibration, but I remember a guy doing it who's on the site http://www.hdcolumbus.net/ for relatively cheap. Someone like that is probably not ISF certified, but that's just certificate (you can be a good calibrator without one). You might also be able to find someone via avsforum.com if you can sift through the info trash pile there. They might have a list of ISF calibrators around the country, just a guess. And lastly I would think ISF themselves would have a list or be able to point you to someone. Although they may say Progressive Audio (and other places around town probably have an ISF certified calibrator).

Exactly what I was thinking and going to say. There's a back story we don't know or major damage on that car that we aren't seeing. From what we can see in the pictures, that's a light wreck and definitely not going to total a 20k car from a $$,$$$ sand point. You should low-ball them and put the engine/harness/pcm/drive train in your truck, assuming that's mostly good.

I think he's a salaried employee.

Well, we will have to agree to disagree. From a moral standpoint I don't think it's right for a company to treat their employees like shit just because they happen to be able to in the here and now given the circumstances. From a business standpoint it's not a good idea to piss those people off because their quality of work is going to go down right now. When the jobs come back and when companies start hiring again, those employees you treated poorly are going to jump ship quicker than you can blink an eye. All for a little company gain right now. Remind me to never work as your subordinate in the future. I took a pay cut at the beginning of the year which is still partially in tact, everyone did (top down). I was pissed at the time, but at this point I fully agree with it.

Go watch Donnie Darko.

1) Lots of shotguns 2) Lots of shotgun ammo 3) Lots of machetes 4)Hover Craft with rocket launchers and safe rooms

Funny as hell. I'm definitely going to go see the movie. Director & writer of Donnie Darko directed and wrote The Box. I can't wait to go see it!

And that idea should give companies free reign to treat their employees however they want? Because they know that they can get away with it because hey, what are they going to do, go find a different job? To Bucky, you should be compenstaed properly for what you do. If you feel that you get compensated enough to do that, that's fine and well. I think another importatnt aspect is understanding of what comes with a job. If it was a reasonable clear thing that you'd be working 60 hours a week for your salary and you do that, that's fine. If it was understood to be a ~40 hour a week job and you all of the sudden have to work 98 hours, not so much.

Lol. GL with the sale.

Turning that into a million dollars would be nice... but by 2044 a cheap blowie might be $500k.

What if his grandpa was a perv and would have told him to spend it on hookers and blow?

Thanks for the heads up. Was thinking about going until I left where I was watching the game and it was raining. Imagine that.