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OzyDave

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  1. That's funny. This is the first time I have "pre" ordered a console, I'll pick it up this arvo. I still don't understand why the prefix "pre" is used these days. I thought just ordering would be sufficient.
  2. I have a Cocoon unit connected to our MyStarHD composite outputs doing exactly that. It works fine.
  3. You don't need an Austar box. Yes you can plug your TV into one of the three connectors on the wall, but only one of them will go to the aerial. You can buy an adapter for your standard TV coax to plug into the wall mount. Go to Dick Smith or similar with your TV aerial cable and tell them you need to connect to the line connector on the wall plate in your photo.
  4. You most likely can. My Austar has 3 cables. 2 go to the dish for satellite channels and one goes to the antenna for free to air channels. Just connect your TV to each one in succession until you get the free to air signal.
  5. Just an aside, make sure occasionally when vacuuming the room you suck out the fluff from the cooling intakes on the PS3. This also goes for computers. Cooling fans suck in airborne debris and the inlet gets blocked easily over time.
  6. Yes, I live 2 hours south of Sydney and Austar seem to think we should have the Queensland ABC programming. I have rang them about it twice but it is apparently too complicated for them to understand. Initially when we moved here, our correspondence was addressed with "Qld" appended to the address, even though the postcode begins with a 2.
  7. There is the fiber optic output you can use for sound too.
  8. I think it's known as color banding or contouring. Also called Posterization sometimes. What are common digital artifacts? Aliasing: Aliasing refers to the jagged appearance of diagonal or curved lines due to the square nature of pixels. Aliasing is mostly a problem with files sizes which are too small, and when a photo is interpolated beyond Veer's standards Artifacts: Artifacts are undesired effects to an image caused by the camera's sensor, lens, and environmental variables. These include: blooming, chromatic aberrations, jaggies, maze artifacts, moiré, ISO noise, and mottles. Banding: Please see Posterization. Blocking: Blocking is an artifact which is usually a result of a data compression algorithm or resampling an image too large. The artifacts appear as large block of grouped pixels. Blooming: Please see Chromatic Aberration. Color Cast: the effect of one of the color channels dominates the overall tone or hue of the photo. Usually caused by improper exposure, improper white balance setting and/or unusual lighting conditions when shooting the original image. Cast: cast is the effect of one color dominating the overall look of an image and cause an overall shift in color. These shifts can affect the colors of the highlights and shadows and cause an unnatural appearance. Chromatic Aberration: Chromatic aberration or blooming is caused by light rays of different wavelengths coming to focus at different distances from the lens. Aberrations are seen as color fringes or halos along edges and around every point in the image. Clipped Highlights: Highlights are the lightest significant part of an image. When a highlight is clipped, there is a loss of details which cannot be recovered. Color Fringing: please see chromatic aberration. Filled Shadows: Shadows are the darkest significant part of an image. When a shadow is filled, there is a loss of details which cannot be recovered. Fringing: please see chromatic aberration. Interpolation: Interpolation or resampling is an method to increase (or decrease) the number of pixels in a digital image. Photo applications use algorithms to enlarge the photo while minimizing the aliasing or jaggies. ISO noise: please see Sensitivity (ISO). Lens Flare: Lens flare occurs when an image includes a very bright light source, flare generated by a bright region can have enough intensity to become very visible. The light produced by flare mechanisms superimposes broadly across the image, adding light to dark image regions and reducing image contrast. This effect can be desired or not. Software can sometimes minimize or remove lens flare, depending on the severity of the lens flare. Jaggies: Jaggies is a non-technical, and more descriptive, name for aliasing. Please see Aliasing. Maze Artifacts: maze artifact is a wavy moiré pattern that begins to resemble a maze, usually observed in JPEGs. Moiré: Moiré patterns are undesired artifacts of images. Optical patterns of lines can create a real and visible pattern of roughly horizontal dark and light bands superimposed on the lines: this is a moiré pattern. Mottle: Mottle is an artifact that appears as spots or blotches of different color or shades of color within a continuous tone. Noise: Noise in digital images is most visible in uniform surfaces, and is similar to grain that we see in film. Noise increases with sensitivity, especially the color noise in digital cameras. Higher sensitivity (ISO) increases the chances of noise, but the environment is also a factor. Please see Sensitivity (ISO). Posterization: Posterization is an artifact which occurs when a limited number of tones are forced to cover a longer range than intended. This causes visible banding or posterization, which are very noticeable in smooth gradients such as skies. Resampling: please see Interpolation. Resolution: Refers to the sharpness and clarity of an image. This is why Veer has set standards on file size, to insure optimal image quality. Sensitivity (ISO): Digital cameras set the level of sensitivity to light by the ISO settings on the camera. Increasing the sensitivity, requires less light. ISO noise is most common in the shadows or areas of continous tone. Software filters can sometimes minimize the noise, but sometimes the noise is beyond repair. Sensor Dust: Dust has always been a concern for photographers, and digital photography is no different. A dust particle on a digital SLR sensor will show up in every photo, appearing a as black smudge or spot. These spots created can usually by addressed using Photoshop, but it can be time-consuming since the spots will continue to appear in each and every image. Photographers will need to periodically maintain their equipment to ensure the sensor is clear of dust and debris. White Balance: The perceived color of an object is affected by the color of the lighting under which it is viewed. The human brain is able to detect and compensate for such changes in perceived color. As a result, a white object will look white to humans whether viewed in sunlight or under overcast skies, or indoors. The color balance assumes that under normal conditions, that if a white object can be made to look white, then the remaining colors will be accurate too.
  9. I would say that the reduction in quality over the last few years only stands for the sales staff quality. That statement they made in itself serves as confirmation.
  10. I bought a series 5 model 59" last month for $1300. I'm not one to wait around for the next new feature when I can get a bargain on something that delivers all I want.
  11. Good luck with that. I just threw a 36" LG out to the tip and gave another to our pensioner neighbours. I don't think anyone would spend $300 on a CRT when they can get a 42" flatscreen for that.
  12. Windows media player is also very slow at adding files I've noticed, not just deleting.
  13. I nominate this reply for containing the most broad stereo type statements I've read. It is actually so inaccurate and therefore irrelevant that it is funny.
  14. I have an AV sender/receiver and it outputs at a lower resolution than what the TV runs at. Perhaps your other units don't like that resolution if yours does the same?
  15. After many months of quite acceptable performance, our MyStar HD has turned to crap over the last few weeks. I am guessing it might be caused by a recent new revision downloading. Extremely slow response to remote control, series linked programs are being missed with no errors shown, occasional self reboots. It is a pain in the @#$%. Also very annoyed by the following behaviour: I see a program that has been on for 10 minutes or so which I am interested in so I press record. That night or the next day, I go to the planner and select the program and find I have a recording of only the last couple of minutes and most of the next program.
  16. lol 7 years at uni is enough to give me some insight thanks.
  17. There are people with extreme paranoid views that won't immunize children too.
  18. Two questions come to mind: 1. Why wouldn't it still be valid? 2. Why would you ask here and not just call JB HiFi? After all, nothing anyone says here will be worth anything if you have a future claim.
  19. Went into the MyStar planner last night and discovered I now had only 8 programs series linked. The day before I had more then 15. Spent 15 minutes going through the EPG relinking the ones that magically disappeared.
  20. Ok. That makes sense. I was on HD and comparing to an SD broadcast.
  21. If the aerial is connected as well as the dish then give Austar a ring and tell them. Your region has to be set by Austar so the box searches for the free to air channels in your area.
  22. I have noticed a number of times that programs I have series linked disappear from the planner. This is very annoying when I realise I've missed some recordings. Something I discovered last night, watching the "live" NRL on Fox whilst talking to a relative on the phone who was watching the same match. Relative's broadcast was 5 seconds ahead of mine. I have MyStar HD whilst relative has SD box. I guess everything I watch is delayed by the HD box recording to the cache.
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