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Ouch on the smash there TrueBlueeyes...

My eyes, my eyes.

Both their world's been blown to hell.

No biggie really...The original Galactica came out before Macross TV....so are you saying it's a homage based on a homage to a homage?

TNT is pretty good in HD...I still want Universal HD here though.

Yup, I've seen the tach on the 'Vette's HUD...nice!! I wish my GTO had a HUD...

Pontiac or Nissan?

Most cable companies will give you a 24 hr "freebie" free-for-all on all the stations including the premium but not the pay-per-view movies and stuff when you take home a new cable box. Unless you are paying for all the premium stations like HBO and Cinemax...they have nothing to do with your High Def service, though HBO has a dedicated HD station, as well as Showtime which you usually only get if you are subscribing to either. The main High Def stations most cable companies provide are HDNet & HDnet movies or iNHD iNHD2 Discovery HD Some get ESPN HD and TNT in High Def I'm lucky enough that my cable co provides them all but unfortunately, we don't get Fox, CBS, or NBC in HD yet.

Hehe, no wonder you didn't even mention seeing the difference in pic quality . What HD stations are you getting? I get: D-KITV (ABC-HD feed) Discovery HD HDnet HDnet Movies iNHD iNHD2 ESPN HD HD Sports (ususally some feed from Fox Sports Net in LA) TNT HD HBO HD (if you have HBO) Showtime HD (if you have Showtime)

That 6th sense pic is damn funny.

Hmmm..they're replayin' the whole season...now all of you who missed it can catch up!! "All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again"... Now young people will start saying that and others will think Peter Pan is making a comeback.

Funny you mention that, because you never see a HUD, nor any look down deal like the original show...they do have huge screens in the cockpit, but the only thing I've seen was the DRADIS screen...I'm guessing it's a helmet displayed HUD or something. Maybe they'll show something in season 2. They do call out, "Tone and lock" though...so maybe it's so low tech, all they have is an audible tone (like a Sidewinder missile) when something's in their range/sights of their guns.

Monster cables are waaaay overpriced...they're good, but many times no better than cheaper brands...you pay for the name and fancy packaging. Also, DVI and HDMI cables from them range in the $150+ range...and perform no better than a generic $10 one(digital signal). The only bad component cables I've seen came from my cable company that they included with their HD DVR box....they were ultra thin white cables and look very washed out...I had to replace those.

Yeah, the Microsoft HD pack contains the audio RCA cords as well...it's the same connector as the standard one except you get component cables instead of a composite cable and it has a port on the connector for the optical if you want to use it.

The 1st one is the one you'll need for your HDTV to take advantage of the games...the second is the same thing albeit aftermarket, and includes an optical cable as well, if you want to hook your Xbox to your receiver like a DVD player. You of course don't need it if you hook your audio up straight to the TV. Either will do.

It's just the angle...

HDMI/DVI also features HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection), which is turning out to be a major pain for the cable companies and TV manufacturers since the "standard" seems to be one of chaos...there are major "handshake" problems with the sets and cable boxes/cablecards right now. Price of being the early adopter.

LCD projection is about the same depth of DLP's and LCoS...they are no where near as thick and deep and heavy as the old crt projectors...my 50" weighs only 70 something pounds and is like 15" thick only. DLP's, some people do see rainbows so beware of that. SD channels (non HD) don't look that great on HDTV's...unless you go for a crt, and then screen size is limited. Crutchfield has a pretty nice all you need to know thing about HDTV thing in their print catalogs and website. http://www.crutchfieldadvisor.com/reviews/hdtv/ The FCC mandate states DTV and not HDTV...some (a lot) of those signals will be EDTV and some still in SD. For gaming, my set is great...4 component inputs, 3 S-video, 1 HDMI, and 2 VGA inputs. SD and PC card inputs. Panasonic PT50LC14....there are also DLP and Cablecard ones now as well.

The Panasonics have a "just" mode which, unlike most "full" modes on widescreens stretches the image only at the edges so you don't really notice it as much. It is much better than pillaring the 4:3 image at times. Some people see "rainbows" in DLP's so if you go that route, make sure you try before you buy. The Panasonic LCD projection's are surprisingly good compared to other LCD projection TV's...I tried the WEGA and Hitachi's but the Panasonic still won out for me. LCoS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) is fairly new...looks good so far Direct View CRT still overall best pic quality but frakkin' heavy and small screen sizes...if space is a concern, and you can handle the depth and weight, go that route. No worries if your TV has DVI and most of the future video products output HDMI...you can get a simple adapter. Like mentioned, HDMI also passes audio (and is capable of 5.1 sound as well) but the video portion is basically DVI. My TV has HDMI but the HDMI port on my cable DVR isn't fully functional yet... You'll probably see HDMI being offered on the next gen game systems as well...

Galactica Boomer = One seriously frakked up chick. Caprica Boomer = One seriously knocked up chick. Plethora of naked Boomers = Heaven on Earth

Voom isn't available in my area, but I do get TNT in HD already. For a small city, our $6.95 Time Warner cable HD feed line up isn't half shabby: D-KITV (ABC-HD feed) Discovery HD HDnet HDnet Movies iNHD iNHD2 ESPN HD HD Sports (ususally some feed from Fox Sports Net in LA) TNT HD HBO HD (if you have HBO) Showtime HD (if you have Showtime) Thing is, we don't get Fox, NBC, or CBS in HD ...and it may be awhile. Has to do with servers needed for time shifting the programming for Hawaii. And once CBS and Fox get those, cable co has to negotiate with them to get them. I'm hoping we'll get Universal HD...Battlestar Galactica in HD sounds good to me since the first season was shot in High Def and after the mini runs on it, the series is expected to follow. Watching it on crappy sci-fi feels weird...I'm watching a show shot in HD on a crappy digital cable station which is just the analog station compressed. Grrr. If you get cable HD, see if you can get a DVR that can record HD too...sometimes, it isn't much more than the regular rental of the digital/HD box...in my area, a digital or HD box is 7.79 a month...the same one with DVR capability is $9.95...worth it for me. Not sure what Comcast in your area uses (I think Motorola has a new HD DVR for Comcast), but if the box is a Scientific Atlanta make sure it is the newer 8300HD, and not the older, larger, slower, buggy, and poor HD pic quality 8000HD.

You know, I keep on missing that...I could DVR it, but I never do. My friend was cracking up the other week though, watching the "Sex Files" and the "L Word"...she kept saying, "Hey...High Definition nipples!!!"

Having an HDTV (Panny LCD RPTV) and HD/Digital over cable (my city has only 3 digital broadcast stations over the air and only ABC in HD OTA so cable was the obvious choice), I agree with JsARCLIGHT...if you don't plan on using the HD feeds either OTA (which may or not be good in your area) or cable/satellite then it might be a waste of money. They are great for DVD's though and your anamorphic DVD's will thank you. The next gen of Blu-Ray/HD DVD players will take advantage of your new set though. One good thing about CRT HDTV's...SDTV will look better than they will on an LCD, DLP, Plasma, or LCoS set. They are just damn heavy. There are a lot of people with HDTV or HD ready sets and some don't even get any HD signals to feed them...I saw one guy complain to a Sears electronic worker about his new HDTV looks crappy and all his stations look the same (apparently he thought all his TV would now look HD). It is hard to watch SD after watching HD stations like HDnet and INHD though...watching the Miss Hawaiian Tropic pageant in HD is like having them prance live all over your living room.

And you'd feel better if Macross was used in a PSA for the UN?