Recent content by xFROSTx

12 cents for a kilowatt hour? Geez, my bill is only 2.21 cents for a kwh. Either way, I agree with your point completely, any time or money invested in saving power, only ends up being a waste of time and money.

I've played this game before, don't get your hopes up that it's going to dramatically lower your electric bill. Using my electric bill, I did the math to figure out that for every 100w of electricity I use non-stop for the entire year, amounts to less than $20. Going from 300+ to 35W should save...

You shouldn't need a special mount just for brick. Any regular mount will do, you will just need to tap the holes first and put anchors in for the screws. I'm even pretty sure both of the mounting kits I used even included the anchors and instructions. BTW, I wouldn't plan on using the...

Since it's already been pointed out that you can go cheap with your surrounds, I would like to play devil's advocate and point out why it might be worth it to "match" your speakers. The way I see it, the benefit to "matched" speakers isn't better sound quality - rather the benefit of having...

I agree, as I currently have a 3 year old 50" Samsung plasma with an image burned into it. Most of what people are talking about here is common image retention - it's kinda par for the course when it comes to a plasma. It's nothing to really be worried about, and it should go away rather quickly...

Sound like an HDCP handshake issue over the HDMI. Most likely, it's the receiver having an issue passing it through to the other devices. Have you tried temporarily eliminating the receiver and going straight to the TV with an HDMI cable?

For the sake of your sanity, please ditch the thought of using wireless or powerline. It seems you have your heart set on it, but it's making baby jesus cry. I know it's been beat to death, but trust the group consensus here, you will spend 10x more time and money screwing around with a wireless...

I don't believe you can use the 7.1 audio stream when encoding. AFAIK, you can only get 7.1 when playing the disc (or possibly an iso...) through playback software that also supports 7.1 - Cyberlink is the only one I know of off the top of my head. Once you can play 7.1 with software, then you...

I can't speak for handbrake, but I re-encode all Blu-rays (Movies and TV Series) with Ripbot264. HD space is cheap, I refuse to delete or compress files whenever possible. In a perfect world, I would do just a straight rip and it would work perfectly on all my devices.;) Since that's not the...

The raid array would be used to maintain uptime, not as a backup solution. I have an additional 8x2TB bare drives in protective encolsures stored at my parents house down the street that are the backup drives. Every month or so I update them. I should do it more often, but since I store them...

I have been very pleased with running Win7 on my light usage fileserver for my wife and I. Gives us centralized storage for all our pictures, music and files since we both have a desktop and laptop each. It has 16TB (8x2TB Segate drives) of storage space, mostly for our saved movies and TV...

Did you try switching your default playback device to the HDMI jack? Right clicking on the speaker icon in your taskbar should give you the the playback devices option.

I don't think too many TV's support 1920x1200, since 1080p is only 1920x1080. Since a receiver is designed to be used in conjunction with a TV vs. a monitor, I don't see why any receiver would support anything higher than 1080. I'm sure there are probably a handful out there if you were to look...

Pay for guides?:rolleyes: If the guides he has in his free section are any indication, I'm not seeing the value of his content. The free guides I just took a look at there, specifically the one about Media Browser, tell you nothing more than what you would pick up by briefly skimming the...

Are you sure you don't have a deeper issue, possibly a codec issue? My reasoning is that I would expect a 3.2 phenom to have more than enough balls to make up for any shortcomings of the 4250, unless you are running some ridiculous post processing...