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The benefit in 1080p is when the video being displayed has scenes of fast motion such as sports or an action scene. With 1080i there is a chance of getting interlace artifacts of course there are two caveats to this 1. with the greater resolution of the 1080 signal the interlacing artifacts are less noticable 2. if your display is using most anything other than a CRT it is probably converting any interlaced signal into progressive because LCD, Plasma, DLP, etc. are inherently progressive in the nature they refresh their images. Mostly what 1080p does is gives companies a buzzword to sell the latest greatest technology to consumers.

You will probably want to find a file format other than wav. One of the limitations of the wav file format is it does not have any tagging cappabilities. You could put the album/artist information in the file name as a workaround however you will not be able to embed any of the information into the file like it sounds you would like to do. I would suggest using a lossless file format such as flac or wma lossless. Either of these formats will sound identical to the wav file but will take up less hard drive space and allow you to tag the files. a good place to find information of the different file formats and setting up EAC is hydrogenaudio.org. As for ripping to a single file or individual tracks most people rip to a single files for backing up their music and individual files if they are going to use them for play back. A lot of the available players do not recognize cue sheets so if you rip to a single file you may be limited in how you can play them.

Correct, the HD Cable box would act as the tuner for the HD cable signal. As long as the display has inputs cablable of accepting a signal from the cable box he should be fine. Most cable boxes are using component video for HD signal output these days. The cable box however will only let you view HD channels that are offered by the cable company if a station in the area is broadcasting over the air in HD but not on cable he will not be able to view the HD broadcast. If he wanted to view the over the air transmission that is when he would need the high def tuner.

I have this drive in a machine I built earlier this year. It does seem to install software faster than my brother's or friend's machines which are still using IDE drives. The Plextor may cost a little more but to me it was worth it.

.wav files will work but they are big and have no tag support. The two main lossless formats these days seems to be flac and apple lossless. Both are about half the size of .wav files and support tagging. As to which one to use I would base that more on what software player you are using. If you use iTunes the easiest solution is apple lossless however I don't believe there are any players besides iTunes that will play apple lossless files. Flac has a lot more options for players but takes some work to get them to play in iTunes. A good place for more information on various audio formats is the forums at www.hydrogenaudio.org

Officially ipods do not support any movie file formats. However, what some people have been doing is saving movies as a series of individual picture files and then having the ipod play them as a slideshow. You also need to extract the soundtrack and have it play as background music. Its more of a way of saying gee look what I can do than any practical way of playing movies.

If you are just looking for a laminated desktop one place to try is office furniture stores. Ask them if they have any desktops they are looking to get rid of. Usually they will have some returned or overstock items they want to clear out and you can usually get a pretty good price on them. My friends and I have made a couple desks using these kinds of desktops with pvc pipes for legs.

Last week there was a thread on the QSC PLX amps. The general concensus seemed to be favorable, enough so that I have decided to try it out for myself. The new amp should be arriving sometime the end of this week.

Do you plan on using your setup for multi-channel music? If so you might want to consider using 5 RB-35's. In my original setup I used three RB-35's across the front and two RS-3II's for surrounds. It was fine for watching movies but when I played any music the surround speakers were less than ideal. Surround speakers tend to smear the sound which is fine for movies but can be annoying to some people for music. I have since upgraded my mains and moved the RB-35's to the rear where I am much more pleased with the sound.

When deciding on a file format I would also factor in what application you are going to use for playback. In my case I perfer using itunes so my files are saved in apple lossless. When I first started I used wav files, they were big and the lack of tag support was a major pain. At the time however it was the only non lossy format itunes supported. I did play around with FLAC and other players for awhile but I could not find anything on Mac OS X that worked for me as well as itunes. When Apple released their lossess codec I converted all my WAV files to Apple Lossless and have been perfectly happy with this setup. Finally as an earlier poster mentioned and I would second go check out http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php their forums contain lots of helpful information on file formats, players, rippers you name it.

I would second m00n's suggestion for going with 3 RC-7s. This is the setup I am using in a room of similar size and it works really well. There is the issue with the back port but you would have the same problem with the RF-5. However, one advantage of the RC-7 is that they can be used horizontally or you can rotate the horn 90 degrees and use it vertically. I have not done a side by side comparison with the RB-75 so I can not say which is better sounding. But the RC-7 definitely is a fully capable speaker that can hold its own as mains.

DrWho, thanks for the info. I saw the press release and renderings Klipsch put out last year with the new design. I've been curious to see what the production model is going to look like since then. Hopefully in three weeks I will have my answer.

I was just wondering if there has been any news on the Reference Premiere line. Ever since the concept models were shown off at CES 2004 I have been anxiously waiting to see what Klipsch has up their sleeves. The lack of information and the wait however, are starting to get very frustrating. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

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Before you try reinstalling I found some information you might find helpful. It appears the problems you are having are caused by a virus that makes changes to the registry and if removed without fixing the registry exe files among other things will be broken. There is a site that has a script file you can run to fix the registry making exe files work again. The script is called fixswen.inf Here is the link to the site that has more information: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100662.htm#RemovalInstructions hope this helps

SVS is located in Ohio. I ordered a b-stock 16-46 pc+ last month. It took about three days to reach me in Wisconsin.

Another option you might want to look into is using a lossless codec like FLAC or Monkey Audio. Although they do not compress the files as much as MP3's there is no loss in quality. Usually you can reduce the file size to a about 50% of the original. I have been playing around with FLAC and have been averaging about 4 CDs per GB.