Recent content by FraGGleR

I second the Oppo recommendation, and I also suggest you check out avsforum.com. More info that you will ever need to know about home audio and video.

When you say surround sound, do you mean just a speaker set? Just an A/V receiver? Both? Is this for your computer or for your home theater? For $80, the best you are going to probably do is get some lower end computer speakers.

Well, having just bought a ps3 and a couple bluray titles, I am a little irked, but I am not devastated. I am not sold on either format, but I don't understand why all the negativity towards bluray other than it being backed by Sony. The bluray camp is addressing the whole menu/extras thing...

Well, I don't know who WILL win since the average consumer is pretty dumb and driven much more by cost than really anything we talk about here. Personally, I will officially be in the Bluray camp on Wednesday when my PS3 arrives. I got it for several reasons: 1) Upgrading my computer...

Seasonics all the way. The newer Trios from Antec are supposedly made by Seasonic so you might see better reliability from that line.

how much do they weigh? how long does the battery last? are batteries available to purchase? thanks.

are there any scratches on the screen? have you ever dropped it? great player. my wife has one and i am jealous.

Thanks guys. Can always depend on H crowds to help out. I am just going to go for non tracer 667mhz ram as it is under $90 with no rebates and I doubt I will ever overclock and have no windows so pretty, fast ram is pointless for me. Thanks again for the recommendations.

Hi, I have always been a value ram user since price and stability have been paramount up until this point. Now that high performance ddr2 ram has dropped below what I payed for value ram, I am considering upgrading. I have a E6300 and will be getting a Gigabyte DS3 rev 3.3 to replace my Asrock...

heh, just saved $565. of course I just spent $100 on anime. actually $140 since I went onto ebay and found all 8 discs of trigun. i would rep the OP if I could do that here.

most excellent! only negative is discs 7and 8 of Trigun are out of stock! anyone think it is worth it to get the first six discs and hope the 7th and 8th go on sale again? or should I just wait to try to get them all together some day. I have ways of watching the series, but have begun to...

I have bought and used monoprice cables for the past 3 years after using Acoustic Research and Monster Cable. Monoprice has been stellar in their quality and service. I haven't had a single issue with any cables from speaker wire to HDMI cables. I would definitely give one of their 28 or 26...

I have not personally used an Oppo, but everyone I have talked to that has raves. I use my HTPC to upscale and I get damn good picture quality. I get good enough quality that I am content to wait another year for the HD drives to get cheaper.

Currently I have about 200gbish of permant collection on harddrives, but I am about to rip another 50-60 movies to have on demand. I wanted them accessible on the network. I currently have an athlon 64 2800 (socket 754) plus mobo and ram and a cheapo case with power supply that a buddy of...

Ok, I wanted to revisit a NAS or similar device for storing all of my movies, music, etc. I am putting this post here since you all know about media storage and streaming and I really don't want to get too much into the networking or other nitty gritty of it all. Currently everything is stored...