Dusty Chalk

The new LED's are thin (this is in response to the wall-mount requirement) -- I believe Samsung is leading the fray here; might be over your budget. I love the Sharp Aquos LCD's -- especially the 42" and 46". They have new 120Hz or 240Hz or something ones. I'd recommend 120Hz or 240Hz.

You might want to add: "has a good macro" to your list of desires/requirements, if you ever want to take pictures of the insides of the Singlepower, or if you want to sell something not large and take pictures of it.

I always thought TAD's looked hawt:

Because every once in an infrequent while, you get through to someone who is only a shithead because they're ignorant, and in need of learning. Not me, though, I'm just lazy.

LOL @ 'bit'. They (digital cables) need to meet the minimum criteria, but after that, MHO is that further improvement is nonexistent, whereas with audio cables, I think there is still an asymptotic curve (I.E. the usual lip service to diminishing returns, but no 'threshold' proper).

Punkin Chunkin -- it kinda sucked, ackshully

I think the idea was to get pictures of it before the meet, so as to help decide whether or not to bring it to the meet, and therefore to know what tools to bring.

Forgot to ask: 'worse' in what way?

Are they really blurple (my favorite color)? Oooh...

Sorry to hear that Pars. And: I believe it about the 20 hot tax chicks. It is Texas, after all. From my lifetime's statistical sampling, it seems the hottest chicks come from Texas. I'm just glad they're not in used car sales, I had enough problems turning down the one.

Pedobear's cousin, Milfseal:

Yeah, Chilton manuals have existed for as long as I can remember, and still do, as far as I know.

And yet still: happy. Who said psychos can't be happy obviously doesn't know any psychos. They're downright manic, part of the time.

Actually, that's not exactly accurate -- the key is dynamic, I.E. different for every disk. So we need to be lucky once per disk. Basically, most hackers look at it as not worth the effort to reverse engineer, and find a way to get at the data-stream from a legitimate SACD or universal player after it's decrypted, at which point it needs to be captured (or fed to a "DAC") in real-time. We call it "laserdropping".

Happy watch: Surprised watch: Poker face:

Ah. It also sounds pretty damn good directly out of the analog outs. To my ears. PS I've also heard a several people say the Sony's make for pretty damn good redbook players.

Stereophile ranked the Oppo BDP-83 A+ as a transport.

Nice.

It's probably still encrypted -- Sony was real picky about that when Pioneer and Denon came out with their proprietary formats before HDMI came along to settle things, and I don't see them being any less picky on themselves about that, for exactly that reason (ripping). That doesn't make it impossible, just hard. Re: Oppo BDP-83SE -- man, if they just put a digital input on that thing (coax/HDMI/USB), that would be perfect.

I think he was being sarcastic. Note how he said I'm not.

She was just a beard anyway.

Well, thanks for letting me know about that. Something newer than the 5400? The 5400 does claim to be able to do so (as does the Oppo), but not sure why that is relevant.

The PerfectWave does SACD? Somehow I missed that...

We don't? The DIY guys in particular are particularly admonishing. Kevin Gilmore talks to everyone like that. I'm not saying they shouldn't -- they have their reasons (safety, quality of construction, etc.). Agreed. You really have a way of cutting through to the heart of the matter sometimes. Anyway, I remain optimistic. The smarter ones tend to be the bigger assholes. But they're also smart.

DBT! DBT! DBT! Fucker.