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On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:19:03 -0400 metspitzer wrote: | On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:16:43 -0700, "Paul Hovnanian P.E." | wrote: | |>metspitzer wrote: |>> |>> On 7 Aug 2008 06:07:08 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@ipal.net wrote: |>> |>> >

|>> >Making the electronics inside the set actually understand how to communicate |>> >with other devices on the LAN ... priceless. |>> >

|>> You would think a set of dip switches to set the IP address would |>> work. |>> |>> I would think 192.168.1.1(1-8) would be a good range. You wouldn't |>> have to know what the numbers meant. Just make sure they are |>> different for each device. |>> |>> I use 192.168.1.1(1-9)0 for my computers. |>

|>Practically all of the commercial and free TCP/IP software stacks will |>include a DHCP client. Just plug it in and your hub will assign it an |>address. | | I can't do that. I have to open ports on my router for P2P software. | | Turning the computers on in the wrong order changes the IP addresses.

I use static IP addresses configured in to all my computers. Even Windows can do that. I booted up a Ubuntu live CD that doesn't use the hard drive as a means to test that DHCP on my router was OK. My DCHP is configured with 64 available addresses for "guests".

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The very first one I bought. one in, three out. The screens carry artifacts when I use it that do not appear direct linked, or when I use the new unit I have.

HD DVD and Blu Ray devices reveal a lot as they put out about the purest HDMI fed HI Def picture available at this time. Piping their signal through that switch is the saddest excuse for an electronic product I have ever seen. It's a damned shame that we cannot sue folks like that, as was once possible.

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On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:43:54 -0700 StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt wrote: | On 8 Aug 2008 18:36:56 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@ipal.net wrote: | |>

|>If find one that can add snow to HDCP protected video, let me know. | | | The very first one I bought. one in, three out. The screens carry | artifacts when I use it that do not appear direct linked, or when I use | the new unit I have. | | HD DVD and Blu Ray devices reveal a lot as they put out about the purest | HDMI fed HI Def picture available at this time. Piping their signal | through that switch is the saddest excuse for an electronic product I | have ever seen. It's a damned shame that we cannot sue folks like that, | as was once possible.

Sue the retailer you bought the piece of Chinese crap from.

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Fry's Electronics. They would settle for court costs, the loss I suffered on the item, plus a small inconvenience "fee".

Or fight it, and end up with the same result. It is likely a poorly shielded layout or the like, or the supply feeding it is sad.

Bad design either way. It shouldn't require a suit though. These stores should know what they are selling, and be responsible for it when it sucks. Being required to bring the courts into it is an unneeded waste. There should be a law about guarantees and warranties.

Speaking of stupid behavior, the Wall-e game demo for the PS3 is set to about 20dB higher audio volume level than the XMB interface or any other title made for the PS3, so it damn near blows your speakers out when the intro comes up. I contacted Disney, and they pointed me to the game author's site. No reply yet to the email I sent them, referring to the guy that set that volume level as being about as incompetent a programmer as it gets. Still waiting for the reply. They are damned lucky my speakers are high quality and took the transient.

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