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Post by: midnight Target on September 13, 2006, 01:14:50 PM: Getting it installed on Friday... woot!
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Post by: FUNKED1 on September 13, 2006, 01:15:59 PM: Awesome, games will load so much faster than when you boot from a floppy.
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Post by: Seagoon on September 13, 2006, 01:17:10 PM: Quote
Originally posted by FUNKED1
Awesome, games will load so much faster than when you boot from a floppy.
:rofl
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Post by: midnight Target on September 13, 2006, 01:23:58 PM: I am much too young to even get that joke..

bastage.
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Post by: Meatwad on September 13, 2006, 01:44:38 PM: Quote
Originally posted by FUNKED1
Awesome, games will load so much faster than when you boot from a floppy.

I remember booting a 286 from a floppy drive everytime i wanted to use it
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Post by: straffo on September 13, 2006, 01:49:27 PM: Quote
Originally posted by FUNKED1
Awesome, games will load so much faster than when you boot from a floppy.

I thought he was using a tape ?
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Post by: Nilsen on September 13, 2006, 02:03:06 PM: Quote
Originally posted by FUNKED1
Awesome, games will load so much faster than when you boot from a floppy.

lmao :lol
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Post by: nuchpatrick on September 13, 2006, 03:24:54 PM: PUNCH CARDS!! :rofl
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Post by: Eagler on September 13, 2006, 03:32:22 PM: hi def is so yesterday.. you sure you live in CA and not AL? :)
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Post by: midnight Target on September 13, 2006, 04:11:13 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Eagler
hi def is so yesterday.. you sure you live in CA and not AL? :)

All I can afford is Yesterday. I may even have to slip back to last week just to pay for the dang TV.
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Post by: eskimo2 on September 13, 2006, 05:12:09 PM: Quote
Originally posted by FUNKED1
Awesome, games will load so much faster than when you boot from a floppy.
:lol

Man, that was a good one!
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Post by: Ripsnort on September 13, 2006, 05:34:59 PM: Excuse me for being ignorant, but how does one 'get hd installed'? I thought that HD was a service of the cable company/Satellite company that was piped via the program, and that your HD receiver was the output to your screen?

I don't have HD, can't justify it yet. I'm still on the fence about buying a plasma, DLP, LCD TV. The old TV works just fine! (Cheapskate statement :D)

And that was pretty funny funkypants.
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Post by: majic on September 13, 2006, 05:40:50 PM: Generally, the cable company (or a company they contract) will come out and set up you cable box (hd receiver) for you. Do all the programming on site etc... That counts as insallation in my book.
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Post by: Ripsnort on September 13, 2006, 05:52:28 PM: Quote
Originally posted by majic
Generally, the cable company (or a company they contract) will come out and set up you cable box (hd receiver) for you. Do all the programming on site etc... That counts as insallation in my book.

What if you TV has a HD tuner? Then its just a matter of them flipping a switch, really.
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Post by: rpm on September 13, 2006, 06:09:30 PM: If the set has a built in HD tuner, it is for off air signals only, (i.e. channels 2-87) unless it is cable ready. In most cases cable ready receivers won't work because the signal is scrambled.

I live about 90 miles from the transmitters for Dallas/Ft. Worth and can pick up most all the HD signals well with a beat up Channel Master antenna. (Note: You MUST have an off air antennae or cable to get local stations in HD. Satellites do not carry local stations in HD.)
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Post by: Sundowner on September 13, 2006, 07:05:47 PM: Originally posted by FUNKED1
Awesome, games will load so much faster than when you boot from a floppy.

Quote
Originally posted by straffo
I thought he was using a tape ?

Punch cards.

Regards
Sun

Grats Midnight.
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Post by: Sundowner on September 13, 2006, 07:07:56 PM: Quote
Originally posted by nuchpatrick
PUNCH CARDS!! :rofl

Doh!
I didnt read all posts.
Kudos nuch.
Great minds think alike they say.

Regards
Sun
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Post by: Eagler on September 13, 2006, 07:14:36 PM: unless the cable ready tv is equipped with a "CableCard" slot, you cannot receive digital cable channels without a cable set top box. My guess is they are coming out to MT's home to install one or the other.
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Post by: midnight Target on September 13, 2006, 10:01:20 PM: I'm almost totally ignorant of the process, but...

I need an HD dish and tuner for my TV (Dish Network). This will allow me to receive 30 odd HD stations including 2 thru 13 in HD as well as the 180 or so I already get. On top of that it is a dual tuner with DVR. Meaning I can record 2 programs at one time while watching a third that has already been recorded... so nanner nanner :p

Now if only they'd put something good on TV!
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Post by: rpm on September 13, 2006, 10:13:45 PM: Your still going to need an antenna to get local channels in HD. You also will not get the subchannels. The satellite signal for locals is digital, but not HD.
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Post by: Ripsnort on September 13, 2006, 10:14:23 PM: Quote
Originally posted by midnight Target
I'm almost totally ignorant of the process, but...

I need an HD dish and tuner for my TV (Dish Network). This will allow me to receive 30 odd HD stations including 2 thru 13 in HD as well as the 180 or so I already get. On top of that it is a dual tuner with DVR. Meaning I can record 2 programs at one time while watching a third that has already been recorded... so nanner nanner :p

Now if only they'd put something good on TV!

I went from Comcrash to Dish Net 2 months ago. Same price, but comcrash kept crashing on me so I dumped their cable TV service (still have internet through them though, I have no choice out here :( )
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Post by: midnight Target on September 18, 2006, 08:50:44 AM: I do get local stations in HD, although they don't always broadcast in HD. Very nice watching the games yesterday.
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Post by: Eagler on September 18, 2006, 09:01:59 AM: bro
make sure you adjust your television settings
when I bumped my video settings to "vivid" (Sony) it made it look like a new television when viewing HD channels
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Post by: midnight Target on September 18, 2006, 09:25:51 AM: I'll check that out.

This is the TV I bought:

56" JVC ILA with HDMI input.
(http://f3c.yahoofs.com/shopping/3028916/simg_t_o1992423742.1127325311.jpg)
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Post by: rpm on September 18, 2006, 10:39:56 AM: Sweet set. My favorite thing about HD is the subchannels. I like having access to realtime weather radar. Comes in handy here in Tornado Alley.