VaBeachGuy

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Watching the NFL draft

Well I for one am glad. I couldn't see banning anyone for saying a word that another member in good standing actually uses in his screen name...

It actually takes quite a bit to get banned and only a few have ever been banned. Spambot accounts have been banned a lot but not a lot of actual people.

No, I wouldn't want to pay the $75 either lol.

I saw a 20 pack for $75 at Fry's. Too much for my budget. I'll stick to my Upconverting DVD recorder till the BD prices come down to current Dual Layer disk prices.

$3.75 per disc isn't bad as an idividual disc price. 2 years ago that same 20 pack would have been around $300 to $400. If you ever get a burner I'd suggest going to someplace like NewEgg.com, you can buy smaller packs or even individual discs.

The technology is still fairly new though and I don't believe there's any recorders on the market.

I am happy we relaxed the rules a little, needing to nag people is such a drag. Everywhere go on the net I read about what a tyrant I am for actually enforcing the TOS.

People talk about STF around the net?

Since this is a crab topic, anyone watch "Deadliest Catch"?

For me, there is a subtle but important difference; component cables aren't as fast as HDMI so motion blur, (like churning water scenes) causes the little squares to be faintly visible.

 

That doesn't happen with HDMI cables but with them, to illustrate - you know those Clariton-D commercials, where a speaking person is all blurry but then a film peals away and the person is in focus... that is sort of (though not that apparent) the difference I see between the two.

 

HDMI falls just a little short on clarity with the smallest details in comparison, imo. It could all be in my head though. lol

 

 

Dang dude, I was recently checking out Blu-Ray recordable disk prices and was shocked at how expensive they are! I won't be upgrading to that till the prices drop.

What price were you seeing the Blu Ray discs at? When I got my first Blu Ray recordable drive about 2 years ago the blanks were around $20 to $25 each. Now they're $4 or $5 each, which is a WHOLE lot better than $20 to $25 lol.

I use both in different rooms.

I like HDMI though because it has the ability to carry both video and audio signals so that cuts out the need of a seperate audio cable. IN the instances where I use component cables (Red, Green and Blue) it's either because the TV doesn't have an HDMI port or because the HDMI ports are already used. For instance, on my main 42" TV I have the 2 HDMI ports already used so when I want to use the Playstation 3 I have it hooked up to the component ports.

Quality wise though, I don't know that there's a whole lot of difference. Oh, another reason I would use component vs. HDMI is that the component ports aren't encrypted while HDMI is. So when I want to re-record an HD program in HD to putonto a Blu Ray (in HD) I use my HD PVR that allows me to record from the HD DVR to my PC. The only way to do that is through the component jacks (since they're not encrypted).

Harsh.......

Lt. Van Roy knows the rules but he just can not stand to follow them. Hope too see him in two months.

lol I was kidding

Well, now it's back to 100%... banned for 2 months! If you hadn't made it plural and just said Boob it'd have only been 50%....

Not to change the subject or anything (), but what's going on with the two links at the upper left of the board? The one farthest left leads to the current portal, but the other one takes you somewhere else. Is this something permanent?

That's actually the Invision version of the portal. I turned it on when I thought the regular portal wouldn't work (before I discovered that Invision had upgraded us with encrypted files).

I just forgot to turn it off once I got the regular portal re-installed.

Especially the one in that black catsuit. Wow!

I guess we know what you have as your wallpaper now lol

Yeah, just in time for Corina's new pics!

They are very good pictures, the portal didn't affect them though. Maybe made them easier to find though.

I was on Netflix last night and noticed that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek: First Contact are all available for instant viewing.

I have, but it's been a while.

The portal's back!!

Yeah when Invision upgraded the board they mistakenly used encrypted files, which is what they do for free versions of the software. Since I paid for a lifetime license of the software for the board we're entitled to an unencrypted version. The encrypted versions can't be modified, so I wasn't able to add the portal back until they fixed their boo boo lol.

The subscription to the chatroom has expired and it isn't used enough to justify the large expense that it was costing, I know there's a few modifications that I can add to put a new chatroom on the board so I'll try to get one installed by the weekend if time allows. The Spring semester is coming to a close right now, so I'm pretty busy but I'll do what I can as soon as I can.

I'm still working on getting the portal back but there's still a few issues that I have to take up with Invision before I can do that.

The original problem that casued all of this was that I had discovered that the board had been hijacked to an extent through a security hole in the software.

Somehow, someone was able to get all of our search engine traffic redirected to an advertising site. I don't know how long that had been going on but I'd venture to guess since around December or January.

That was one of the causes for the slowdown in activity, not the only one but one of them.

I don't think I've ever seen it, though I have heard it's a good show. One of these days I'll have to check it out.

Iced Tea for me.

I think crabs are actually kinda cute lol, but they're also pretty tasty. I try not to eat them though

It was my browser, something was stuck in the cache and was making it display incorrectly.

When you view topics now, are the posts all showing up as normal or do you only see the first post with all other posts listed as links under the topic as shown below?

I really enjoyed it. My waife called it "the best movie she's ever seen" and for her, that's saying something. We saw it in 2 d (we were not willing to pay an extre $2 a person).