After wising up and reading the emails that we got when I ordered the CP72 from Amazon, I saw that they cancelled the order right after we made it due to the fact that they were OUT OF STOCK. It was driving me crazy. So I called Soundtrack back and asked them if the still had the CP72 in stock. And they said yes, and it was down to $188 instead of $240 like it was last week. So I shot down there and after much digging the guy managed to find it.
I brought it home and hooked it up, and after a little confusion I figured out now to enable Progressive output on my TV. I did realize that my TV doesn’t do a native 720p resolution so it will have to be scaled to 1080i once HDTV is in wide usage. So after getting the 480p signal working I popped in Monsters Inc, and tested for the chroma bug, and to see what the overall quality was. It looked FANTASTIC.
Now I still don’t know what I need a 5 disc DVD player for, but I suppose if we were sitting down and watching a Friends Season 1 marathon we could load all discs into the player, or maybe when The Two Towers Special Edition is released I can load all the discs in there at once. I did test an SVCD I had of Cowboy Bebop and it worked quite well. I don’t think the disc had chapters so all you can do is fast forward through the movie unlike a DVD but I can live with that. Now if I only had a really good 6.1 reciever (or 7.1) with a DTS/THX decoder, I would be in heaven.
My legs are still hurting me this morning, but at least it is less then yesterday. So I’m not walking around like Ozzy all day long. But we need to go pick up tickets for X2 and Matrix, and get something to eat. After that we have to run to the Commisary. It seems like we go there every week. I can’t stand grocery shopping, and I hate it even more when we have to go on base. You know how they line you up like cattle waiting for a checker and shit like that. GRRRRR it drives me crazy.
OK we are off.