Recent content by jack_r

I've been a frequent rebate user (~10 per year) for years. I always fotocopy all the required materials and stick them in a folder just to be safe, and I try to get the stuff in the mail ASAP so that I won't forget. Lately I've been noticing a new tactic on the part of companies. In past...

dude, yur gettin a .... what'r u thinking... build the AMD.

just wanted to put a good word in for Monarch, before the haters take aim... I've bought half dozen motherboard/cpu/ram combos from there, and sundry other parts... they're have always been nice on the phone (american, native english speaking tech... yea!!!) and I have always got the right...

is this the same analog only model Circuit City was hawking on Black Friday?

Is virtualdub-mod any good? It has been a couple years since their latest version update.

Good idea... I have Abobe Premiere Elements 2, Nero 7, Intervideo Suite, VirtualDub, TMPEG, and FLASKMPEG. Give me a good recipe and I'll try it. VirtualDub is the only program that I'm good with, it does exactly what I want, but I can't output MPEG-2... which means encoding at the time of...

Hi... hopefully someone here can help me out. Older 4:3 aspect ratio TV shows are often broacast with vertical black (or grey) bars to the left and right on 720p or 1080i (widescreen) channels. If I record these shows using my ATI HDTV Wonder (and Multimedia Center), it records the black bars...

It DOES work with the 160Gb Seagate Hard drive deal. I just got one $110 - %10coupon + %6 tax - $30 rebate - $40 rebate = $35 That's 22 cents per Gigabyte...;-) Thanks for the coupon. Where do these coupons come from??? Does anyone else have the urge to print out a bunch and start...

No instant 10% for me either... but after tax, the 20% coupon and the $30 rebate the 7800gt will come to $325... not too shabby...

Just got a BFG 7800GT myself along with a Belkin Power Supply. Thanks for the heads up... and thanks to the Dell coupon sellers on Ebay;-)

Hey... mabey some chap can hork me a mouse, eh? Y'hosers... :-)

I'd get the corsair pc3200 c2pt from outpost... rock solid ram... I have experience with 6Gb of it in several computers... I'm not an overclocker, but I do run tight timings and I appreciate the absolute solidity of this ram for running mathematical calculations over periods of several days...

Personally... I would buy the 1Gb c2pt corsair ram at outpost.com for $159... check me on this, but I think its faster as well as cheaper.... I'm running 6 Gb of this c2pt ram in multiple machines doing round the clock grad school research and it is excellent

I wonder how this response applies to rebates. May great Black Friday deals are a combination of store and manufacturers rebates... often these rebates are good for 1 or 2 days only starting on Black Friday. If you buy they item ahead of time you won't get the rebate... usually retailers don't...

"They buy products, apply for rebates, return the purchases, then buy them back at returned-merchandise discounts." How it this possible... many rebates require you to rip off the original UPC and send it in... then you can't return the item because it doesn't have a upc. At least that is my...