The Cerebellum

Well after much though about speakers for my entertainment system, instead of bolting the surround sound speakers in the ceiling of my new place, I started to look into the sound bar speaker set-ups. They consist of a rectangle speaker (like a center channel) and they use digital tricks to act like a surround sound. There are some that just have the center bar and others that have a powered sub, and others that have built-in DVD players. The high-end units have up to 20 speakers in them and run $1500+ and the powered sub is extra.

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Ok so some might notice that my gamertag is different from my regular PC game name and URL. It happened when I finally got myself an Xbox 360, as the original unit I had gave up the ghost. It was one of the first release units and had lasted a long time.
I had actually exchanged the unit out just after Christmas, before my 30 days had expired, in an effort to get a unit that might have been newer in the pipeline, as the other unit had been a bit cranky reading disks, so it was a good excuse, (it really was my plan all along).

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From my pursuing of tech sites I have found the consensus is that the $50 HDMI cables at Best Buy are the same quality as the $5 ones that Amazon sells. So when I was getting ready for my TV purchase I bought four six foot and one 15 foot DVI to HDMI (which was about $12). They all worked great and service from Amazon was great.

There were reports going round of Best Buy using this tactic to up-sell cables. In a side by side comparison they used monster HDMI cables saying they were better, but those that look at the set-up have seen they use S-video, or worse RCA-yellow. Which is similar to the “calibration” trick they do.

From my pursuing of tech sites I have found the consensus is that the $50 HDMI cables at Best Buy are the same quality as the $5 ones that Amazon sells. So when I was getting ready for my TV purchase I bought four six foot and one 15 foot DVI to HDMI (which was about $12). They all worked great and service from Amazon was great.

There were reports going round of Best Buy using this tactic to up-sell cables. In a side by side comparison they used monster HDMI cables saying they were better, but those that look at the set-up have seen they use S-video, or worse RCA-yellow. Which is similar to the “calibration” trick they do.