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And last one... Weather Channel

Lyrics

Visualization

Album Information (looks up online)

DVD Playback and Volume window (fades in and out when you adjust it)

My Music

Here are some screenshots of the interface: Main Menu (video or visualization shows up in backround depending on what you are doing)

HD space is cheap, unless your using a Mac Mini or a laptop, which use 2.5" hard drives. These come at a max capacity of 100gb and can run as much as $300 for a 7200rpm model. The Xbox is def the best solution. I use one right now, and with a little bittorrent searching you can find XBox Media Center, which supports nearly all audio, video, and picture formats. It also supports dvds, Dolby Live (realtime Dolby encoding), streaming audio, video, and images via SMB and Windows network sharing, copying via FTP, ripping, CDDB, lyrics, voice removal, visualizations, shoutcast, and with 3rd party scrips, can get tickers for stocks and sports, streaming vidoes and rss feeds, and bittorrent. Not to mention the playback of games from the hard drive, which means a disc is no longer needed. The only drawback is you can not use the Xbox for Xbox Live, which shouldn't be a problem if you will only be using it as a media center. You can usually get yourself hooked up with a 250gb soft modded Xbox for about $300. Usually it comes loaded with a bunch of games, and it's not hard to FTP your own programs to the Xbox. Not to be rude, but I think this would trump just about any other media center you could get for under $500. It has decent analog out, has an actual digital out with a seperate AV pack, doesn't need any antivirus or antispyware software, programs don't root themselves into your os, so removal of programs is literally as easy as deleting a folder, can just use the TV as a monitor, doubles up as a DVD player, more hard drive space than anything you can get for under $500, and you can use it as a gamming rig on the side. I use a wireless Logitech controller, which works well as a remote. Can you get analog fast forward, rewind, and volume controls on a standard remote? I think not.

Actually, my amp goes to 8.

I found another one. If you click both mouse buttons on a card that has a card that can go on one of the suit stacks face down below it, it will send the card that is face down to the suit stack. It remains face down on the suit stack.

This Christmas I decided to pick up something to better my forum posting experiance. You also wouldn't believe how much quicker my rounds of solitare have gotten! It's got 2000 dpi of wholesome tracking ability, and has a 1ms response time. Not to brag, but truely the mouse of gods.

I guess it's Microsoft trying to tell me not to play solitare at 4:26 AM

Sad when they have thousands of programmers and still end up with funny glitchs. Especially with a program this old.

You'll just be running about half the rated wattage of the amps. So if u get like a 4ch 50wpc u can expect 25, which is more than enough in my opinion.

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Update to 1.5 and quit being paronoid. I'm sure your personal computer is an importaint target for the hacking community. I don't run any antivirus, my firewall is hardware and set on basic, and I don't bother with any security updates from Microshaft. No viruses or highjackings of any computers in my network for the last 6 years. Just watch what you download and keep up with tech news to know what viruses are running around on the net at the time.

All I know is that means that Reference stuff will be on clearance all over the place, and I will be making some orders not to long from now.

I donno about other Best Buys, my local one displays Klipsch much better than any other product there. They use Klipsch SF3s to show off the TV of the week. It's a setup that consists of F-3s, highest end Yamaha goods that the store has, a Logitech Harmony remote, 2 theater style recliners, 2 SW-12s, a C-3and 2 S-3s. That is a better setup than what alot of stores give Bose. Of the the salesmen there said that they sell on average about 2-3 times more Klipsch equpment than Bose.

Whoops, can't use Firefox so the idea defaults to nutjob.

I'd say go with the Focals and a JL W7 speaker wise, a 4ch and a mono Alpine respectively for amplifacation, and an Eclipse deck up front.

DSL will tend to be quite a bit faster when you are within a quarter mile of the DSLAM, which is sometimes hard to locate. Its not uncommon to be able to reach 6 Mbit. Too bad the phone company limits this. It is expected within a few years to be able to get 50-60Mbit VDSL within a half a mile of the DSLAM.

Yeah, they have fame, until the next company builds a more powerful and faster one.

The only thing you can do to get us to forgive you for furthering the Bose name is to invite him over to listen to your Klipsch system, and get him interested.

My town cruiser... My Dad's Bike (recently got it painted blue, installed CO2 shifting system, new D&D exhaust, and bored and stroked to 1460cc. Puts out around 140-50hp and 0-60 around 2.8 secs.

Hey, it's not bad everywhere. At my local Best Buy a few employees tell me that they sell as much as 4x more Klipsch stuff than Bose. And the Klipsch setup here is actually larger than the Bose, and in their TV section they show off their stuff with theater seats, a Logitech Harmony, and the largest Synergy stuff they could get to surround you. Too bad all Best Buys aren't like this.