Comments on: Where to purchase best home theater equipment on the web?

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 01:18:53 +0000

I think for fans who are seeing the Metrodome for the first time, it can be a good experience, but having been in there 100 times, it's hard to give up part of a nice fall Sunday fighting tight concourses and that “dome smell” for 3 1/2 hours sitting in tight seats with less than great view of the games. The most annoying part last time I was there is they hired these “sideline anchors” who during the timeouts give like a mini-game update to spoon feed us what's happening. That all the overdose of sound from the sound system really make it a non-joyable event.

If you go and have some good friends to go with, it can be a fun one time thing.

For the price of good season tickets (and worse, the miserable food prices) I can buy some really nice home theater equipment and that's what I've done. (LCD / Plasma). I tivo the game, I watch parts of it live (depending on the game. Around half time I go outside and play with my kids with the radio in the garage on. Then if it's close I come in to watch the end of the game. Far more fun and I safely save $300 bucks on the day. Not to mention, I'm eating freshly made grilled foods that I grilled or smoked that day with my choice of homebrew or microbrew.

Now if I had a chance to go to Lambeau, I'd gladly pay hundreds of dollars for the experience of tailgating and outdoor football on grass where you actually hear “actual” sounds of the game.

By: sveiley levin

sveiley levin — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:45:55 +0000

Thats just 2 channels, not sourround sound!!!

By: kalbi

kalbi — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:59:07 +0000

Some devices need to go through a cool down phase after you shut them off using the device's power switch. If you shut the power off to the device instead, it has no power to run a cool down, or shut down other processes in the normal way.

Also some equipment may lose the settings you have configured if they are not connected to an active power supply for a certain period of time.

You may have gotten away with shutting the power off to these devices from the light switch before, but don't do it again.

By: cart

cart — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:38:42 +0000

Samsung Electronics is diving headlong into 3-D viewable TVs, launching a number of new 3-D home products today. Samsung also announced an alliance with animated film maker DreamWorks Animation. Jeffrey Katzenberg, chief executive of DreamWorks Animation, took the stage to tout the alliance and Samsung’s own commitment to 3-D. Tim Baxter, president of Samsung Electronics America, said that Samsung will launch a series of 3-D TVs based on LED, LCD, and plasma technology. Samsung created the first DLP, rear-projection-based 3-D TV set in 2007. It created a plasma version in 2008, and now believes the time has come to roll it out across a large number of TVs. The company is also rolling out 3-D Blu-ray players, camcorders, glasses and home theater equipment. As with Toshiba, Samsung alsohas a technology to convert 2-D videos to 3-D on the fly, so the content doesn’t have to be natively created in 3-D to be viewed in 3-D. Still, Katzenberg said that DreamWorks was creating a version of…