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Maybe start here? You can look at the reviews and hopefully avoid another Pyle. I'm not sure about your desire for relocatable antennas though.

I watched my first Blu-ray tonight on the plasma, Ender's Game. The movie was okay, not great, but the overall viewing experience due to the picture quality of the set was nothing short of amazing.

I'm going to use my i1Display Pro + HCFR to calibrate the TV using the TV's various and numerous internal settings. After I get it dialed in as close as possible with the TV's settings I will use dispcalGUI to create a 3DLUT for madVR.

Cree makes a 3 way LED bulb, but it's 30W, 60W, 100W. FWIW, I measured the temperature of my Philips L-prize bulb after an extended period of being turned on and it was ~120F.

I thought the light spread from those Philips bulb is better than the Cree bulb. The Cree bulbs don't really push any light out the top of the bulb.

Their 60W Slimstyle LED bulbs are priced right there with the 60W Cree bulbs (or cheaper).

Yes, it seems to be an upgrade over my 57" Hitachi RP-CRT in pretty much every metric. It has perfect geometry, it's sharper (being fixed pixel), has much better ANSI contrast, has black levels that are at least no worse, is more watchable during the day, is bigger, etc. I still need to...

Thanks. It took a lot of time and effort to make and was a pain in the butt, but it came out pretty well. No, That's with the 17W linear fluorescent tube turned up all the way. I have it dialed down much, much dimmer than that. Here's a picture of the set with the bias light at it's...

They part of the Rocket lineup from a defunct company called AV123. That's my foot. Probably I haven't tried to organize it yet.

I got a $68.90 credit on my purchase after they put the set on sale a bit cheaper than I got it for. I also finished up my woodworking project building and finishing my custom stand + dimmable bias light.

Well, I don't want you to get an ulcer.

As I recall when they were first introduced they were in the $60 range, but they're certainly not worth $70 given the other options in the marketplace today.

Don't worry, I didn't actually buy one.

I don't think they're available any more. If I'm remembering correctly HD closed them out for $15 each last year which was only a few dollars more than the Cree bulbs pricing (at the time). IMHO they're a better bulb than the Cree bulbs. The 60W Cree "daylight" bulb are now $7.97 at HD after...

In for the 1TB USB 3.0 flash drive! ;)

I picked up one of these "daylight" 60W bulbs yesterday to replace a 75W ~2700k CFL intentionally for the 5000k color, which I'm not sure I like. I put it in a lamp that's on a timer (turns on at sunset and turns off at 2am). I decided to check on the bulb before I went to bed last night and...

You'll probably have to explain that to him. I don't believe he's familiar with the term.

Are you actually allowed to use them?

Yes, HT helps to the tune of 15-20% or so. What do you have against overclocking? A overclocked Haswell i7 with HT will be pretty fast. Devil's Canyon is only compatible with 9 and 8 series chipsets and the 8 series chipsets require a BIOS update to make that happen.

Handbrake uses x264 which scales pretty well with CPU usage unless you're using a speed / quality preset that doesn't saturate all the cores. A 6 core Intel i7 processor (with HT) is probably the best way to proceed.

You need to provide more details. What sort of transcoding are you doing? What software are you using? How long does it currently take? How long would you like it to take? My initial suggestion would be add cores (real and virtual), but that could be totally wrong depending on the SW you're...

$4? They're less than $1.

I have not, but they're pretty neat.

I had a coyote in my back yard yesterday. And no, it wasn't chasing a roadrunner.

The increase in power is probably minimal though.

Actually, I'm not sure what the paperwork suggested. I didn't really even have the opportunity to skim it. I'm guessing what it said. Mainly I didn't feel like arguing with the 2 burly strangers in my house.

Not the factory brakes or exhaust either. The exhaust was changed so the crowds could hear it coming.

That's how it always works. Did you have to do some fast explaining?

Thanks. I got it this morning shortly after 8am. The delivery guys literally brought it in the house and set the box on the floor where I told them, told me to sign and initial a few things on a piece of paper, and ran out the door. In contrast, the salesman at the store told me they would...

It certainly does.

I went ahead and purchased a Samsung PN64F8500 plasma today. It should be delivered on Thursday. In other news Samsung SDI announced late last night that they will be stopping plasma production no later than November 30th.

The 85" UHD JVC is supposed to be $8k

Probably. Not 100% sure though. It could be VA, but LG tends to mostly use their own panels.

I wouldn't call that cheap, but you and I may be on very different budgets.

Do you know someone with Angie's List access who can find you some reputable companies? Any companies stand out for running ads, or have good word of mouth?

There are some incandescent bulbs that meet the new energy requirements. They're basically a Halogen lamp in a conventional looking frosted incandescent globe. I'm not sure if that's what you've been seeing though.

But you have to put up with a bad CRI and perhaps an unpleasant color temperature in exchange for that.

You can also still buy ones that are meant for "rough service".

I'm sure there are some good jokes in here, but I'll let them slide by.

I can't say I'm terribly surprised. They've managed to make a name for themselves on YouTube and are now trying to make some real money. If they didn't have in mind selling high res content when they made some of their various clips, doing so now would probably be cost prohibitive from a time...

Pretty much... It's bound to be out of my price range.

Touche!!!

It's all the CIA spying he does.

Only 15? Are you sure that's enough?

Yes, it was hyperbole to make a point. It's not a high return career for most people. There are of course always exceptions.

I didn't make it up.

So far, yes.

I didn't say it was the fault of the colleges. I'm with you that it ultimately is an issue of personal responsibility for the student and their parents. What I said is that the colleges have had a hand in worsening the problem.

I'm not sure that only the rich would go to college. Colleges would have to lower their prices and compete or go out of business. When you let people borrow what amounts to an unlimited amount of money the price of college will inflate to get as much of that money as possible. Colleges are...

People get lots of degrees they don't "need". If you go to some expensive school that costs $30k a year and get a worthless communications degree why should you be absolved of that? Maybe after 15 years if you're forced to pay at least some percentage of your income each year prior. And the...