David Hingtgen

It's the TV. Just IMHO. From reading a zillion posts about various Sony/Toshiba/Samsungs before buying---weird HDMI audio issues that "fix" themselves with resets etc. A lot of the time, updated firmware fixes it. Though many Sonys cannot be updated without a service call, etc. As for component---1080p is possible, however---many TV's won't accept it, and Hollywood etc won't allow it for many things----kind of like how a TV won't output more than 2 channels from itself to a HTS even if it's getting a 5.1 signal through HDMI--it may be perfectly capable, but it's not allowed. And remember the "won't upscale via component due to HDCP" debacle? I'm pretty sure a PS3 won't allow 1080p via component, even though it is physically possible. (Because HDMI allows secure/encrypted stuff, while component is not so easily "controlled" by the studios) It's all about how the studios don't want you upscaling/converting anything you own. Because according to them, you don't own it.

On that note, this TV has WAY better speakers than the old one, even though they are downwards-facing/hidden (as is the trend---pointless, as it's purely aesthetics but can't be good for sound). A bit tinny, tweaking that too. (TV has an adjustable equalizer, but it's hard to check "all sounds" at once) Maybe I'll just wait until someone at AVS posts some sound tweak settings.

Well, I got my TV yesterday, but didn't even have time to try it out on anything more than a DVD player until today. Been tweaking backlight/brightness constantly trying to optimize it. (Did use SW Ep 3, now using Mass Effect) No hot/stuck pixels (they're easy to spot), haven't found any dead ones yet. I got a BRAND new one, they were literally re-stocking them off the truck when I got there, so mine is an April build. It seemed HUGE when I first got it in my room (seemed so much smaller when I measured things, actually being there in 3D makes a big difference) but it seems more "normal" now.

And brunette is the new black...

Target report: WTF. Same as last week, which is the same as the week before that. 6x Scarlett comic packs, not a single thing else. Yeesh.

But as a "just started" person, I don't have any of the figs in the DVD set.

How will that Lady Jaye be different from the "cartoon" one in the DVD set? Repaint only?

Even brunette doesn't help----Baroness has BLACK hair. Brown is not black. They may have colored her hair, but it's still the wrong color.

The sad thing is, that's also exactly how the FAA operates when it comes to requiring new safety features on planes----and they don't have the "profit-minded evil corporation" excuse to justify it.

Still doesn't say "Baroness" to me. "Generic movie chick in leather".

There's a big difference between it sounding good on a 5.1 channel surround sound system, and sounding horrible on a simple TV. Most DVD's can sound good on both---but watching Transformers on a simple TV utterly ruins the audio. That means there's something wrong. 90% of my DVD's sound ok on TV, but even better when I hook them up to my stereo. Transformers is just godawful on TV, and only "meh" on a stereo. It takes a FULL setup for Tranformers to be good apparently, and then it's really good. But that's not how it should be. Being "really amazing under optimal conditions" does not excuse it for being sucky under most conditions.

I'm pretty "collectoritis-proof". There are lines/groups of which I may have 5--and the whole line is only 6 or 7. I bought only the ones I like---no matter how close I may be to "completing" some category etc. When it comes to planes, I may have 19 of the 20 models made of a certain airline--but I'm picky, so I'm not buying that 20th one. I have NO desire to "complete" anything. Buy only exactly what I like, not "sets" of stuff I like that includes stuff I may not like.

Half the Joe toys already come with oversized masks/helmets... Hmmn. A repaint Wild Weasel wouldn't be that far off.

Insanely cool (IMHO) news: Matt Trakker (as in, the guy in M.A.S.K. with the flying Camaro) is going to be "Specialist Trakker" in an upcoming wave.

Fixed.

Gaijin, thanks for your experiences. I was going to pick up my TV this week anyways, but now I just got a 12% off coupon (even better than the 10% off I was going to use) and your comments help "ease my fears" a bit. And yeah---the opening Blackout scene in Tranformers is just "dead", sound-wise. I have old Saturday morning cartoons on DVD with more bass.

I have Thundercracker, that's enough for me on that mold. I'm just waiting for a leader-class movie SS from the second movie now... (And hopefully a leader Barricade, and a $100 "perfect" Prime)

No, I've looked at and "played with" Leader Brawl many times in the store though. He just "looks weird" to me. Especially with his main gun hanging off his hip. He's got most of his armor plates behind his legs instead of on the sides, but visually, dlx Brawl looks better to me in every other aspect. Leader Brawl just has funky proportions, especially his upper torso/back.

6 cars that will save the world and cause you to lose your manhood: http://www.davesdaily.com/funpages/Environ...ndly%20Cars.htm

I'd just like to restate that Dlx Movie Brawl rocks. Fixing the shoulders is quite simple, and just like Dlx vs Ult Concept BB---I think the Dlx one looks better than the leader. PS---Deep Space Starscream at Target.com, says it ships in 24 hours: http://www.target.com/dp/B00102V2ZY/ref=t_th_em_is

I'd like to re-state that I went through the past month+ of email---there was nothing. I didn't do the standard "click on an email link to my ebay account"--I didn't even GET any emails from ebay (real or fake) other than my daily favorite searches. And those don't even ask for your account info nor for you to log in, they just take you right to the search results. Can I have more info about this firefox keylogging? I run my net browser fairly "locked down" and don't allow that much (activex, script, java, etc) by default--nearly every site is personally added by me to trusted sites before it's allowed to do anything----but I'd need to know exactly what settings do/don't allow that to know if I have it already prevented.

I'm guessing that too (hole in ebay security)---googling around, some guy in Romania managed to get 1200 ebay passwords/accounts last year at once---no way THAT many people are gullible to even the best phishing email. And I've been going through my last month of emails---all are valid, none are even slightly suspicious. (unless it's SO good a fake that even looking for a fake ebay email made me miss it again) But again---it would have to be a fake of my specific "daily item search", not a generic "problem with your account" email. I know every "account problem" email ever sent in the world is a fake. And after 5 scans, 2 of them in safe mode (one of which took 5 hours and scanned every single byte on the hard drive), no program has yet to find any sort of virus/adware/malware/trojan, and all of them have todays latest updates. (Avast, AVG, Spybot)

I'm going to go into safe-mode and do deep-level scans for a couple hours. Still haven't found anything from the "quick" scans from 3 different programs but I have to be sure there's no keylogger snagging all my passwords.

Ok, the last time I used my ebay password before this was a few days ago, I got a "favorite searches will expire" email----are those ever faked so well that they're 100% correct-looking? As in, it even had the search terms correct? (I use very advanced searches, with commas, parentheses etc). Could it have been a phishing favorite searches fake, that was so perfect that even I was fooled? But how could anything know what my saved favorite searches were. Spybot found nothing, now checking with AVG. (AVG's finding some website cookies as always, but those are nothing) PS--ebay says that an ebay account can be gotten into by someone having access to your email account--but that's nigh-impossible for me, for as I said--my email password is a random string of numbers and letters, and cannot be guessed no matter what. And I've still found no evidence of a key-logger, trojan, etc that could have recorded my mail email password.

Any particular program that'll look for keyloggers? I normally run Avast for virus protection, and AVS sometimes. I have my PC "immunized" with Spybot search and destroy, and am running a check with it now just in case. If there's a keylogger, I have to change EVERY password. (And I just changed my Amazon one too, gah)