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    Tannoy Sensys C vs Tannoy Mecury F centre speaker

    ive seen the eyris c for £150 but the sensys c is £50 so is the eyris that much better and whats the sensys like compared to the mercury fc and eyris the only thing with the eyris is the shape as i put my sky box on top of the centre speaker
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    QED Signature HDMI or Chord Company Active HDMI?

    i used to have qed reference and upgraded to qed signature and i noticed the slight improvement in picture and sound. i also have a qed reference 7m cable for my ps3 and can honestly say its the same picture quality as the signature. i have come to the conclusion its all about shielding in the...
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    Tannoy Sensys C vs Tannoy Mecury F centre speaker

    i have the tannoy mercury fc centre speaker and to be fair i am quite happy with it. all the rest of my surround speakers are tannoy. i have seen the Tannoy Sensys C centre cheap and on paper it has better specs than mine. does anyone know which is better? is the sensys the older model...
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    Sony STR DA2400ES hdmi drop out problem ever get resolved

    i never took i t back back due to the fact i bought it when first released and waited for the sky optical formware update, which i got done and thought it would correct the problem. it drops out 1 sec every 2-3 hours which isnt a massive problem to me. it was reported on here as a handshake...
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    Sony STR DA2400ES hdmi drop out problem ever get resolved

    hi i have a sony strda2400es receiver and every hour or so the sound and picture drops out for about 1 second. i got the firmware updated when the player first came out and have always had this problem. initially i was told on this forum it was a handshake problem but more people on other...
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    streaming and the slow death of disc article

    Sounds like you're trying to convince yourself more than anyone else. Why are you worried? im not convincing anyone of anything my main point was the original article was misleading saying discs are dying now when they are clearly not. cd sales are four times higher than download Fact so cd...
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    Blue Ray Movies freezing during play

    [EDITED BY MODS - trading is against House Rules] if not can i recommend a sony bdp380 from play £100 but the remote isnt as good as the 360/3
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    streaming and the slow death of disc article

    after reading the original article again who really care about stalwart Linn not making cd players anymore, there are plenty of other big players in the market that are still making them to fill that gap. cyrus, naim, classe, moon, plinius, marantz etc not that many people can afford a £3000...
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    streaming and the slow death of disc article

    i just read an article from the bbc jan 2012 "CD album sales fell by 13% to 86.2 million discs CD download sales were four times that of 2007 to 24.8 million discs However, shoppers still showed a preference for CDs, buying more than three times the number of albums on disc than downloads...
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    streaming and the slow death of disc article

    Just out of curiosity, have you tried Apple Lossless files on your iPhone? I find they sound stunning, especially when heard through decent earphones. yes but unfortunately my 20 year old cd player that cost £600 and my nad amp when played through my speakers is still better quality, (i dont...
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    streaming and the slow death of disc article

    If you think that discs are still the future then you may want to take a peek from under the rock you have been hiding under for sometime now. hiding under a rock HA i can stream all my stuff if i wanted to but i dont. i have a ps3, 2x xbox 360, 2x sony bdp 380. sony bdp 185, wd live, nds, 4...
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    Are separates on borrowed time?

    i would like to say no, but unfortunatly most of the sheep out there follow the herd and havent a clue what quality is. the young folk these days seem to think that mp3 is quality and are happy with music played from a crappy pc cd player on bell wire cable or on a ipod played through a ipod...
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    Blue Ray Movies freezing during play

    the disc may pause at the layer break, it does the same on dvd as well for a split second ive got 2 sony 380 and never had a problem and its not on the latest firmware either and ive got about 600 blu ray films
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    streaming and the slow death of disc article

    posted this on the forums so more people can see and air there views this article is a load of garbage its just hype from samsung. so at the moment more people are watching films on download or streaming, why because they are cheaper eg blockbuster instore rental £3.50 stream from xbox £1.20...
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    CD-format to be abandoned by major labels by the end of 2012

    yes i could easily back up my music on my hard drive but i already have backups of :- 2x 1tb hard drive with a drive copy of both of my windows 7 installs on. 2x 2tb hard drives with 16 years of pc programs data files etc 1x 1tb hard drive of old computer games on cbm64, amiga etc 3x 500gb...