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  1. Re:Misssing Features... uh no... NO! by thing12 · · Score: 1 · on ZapStation CD/MP3/DVD Player/Server

    No no no! Component is not Composite. Component is 3 separate cables with RCA jacks for RGB. Composite is garbage, I totally agree S-Video way way better than composite. Component is very cool in reality, progressive scan (rather than interlaced like every other tv signal) component inputs are even cooler --- but I don't find component to be visually much better than s-video... maybe I'm blind though :-). Here is more info on component video if you're interested.

  2. It's been in the US Since 1996 by up2ng · · Score: 2 · on U.K. Pirate Broadcasters Steal Car Radio Listeners

    I have had every new Pioneer Unit that they have come out with since '93 (ex-dealer perks), and they were the first in the US to use IDlogic and RDS. Too bad here in NY it really isn't used for what it was designed for, the stations just display call letters and tag lines.

    Pioneer Car Stereo w/ RDS @ pioneerelectronics.com
    BTW: They do have on/off settings

  3. Re:Here's a link by SEWilco · · Score: 1 · on Pioneer to sell first recordable DVD decks
    Try this link to Pioneer DVD-Recordable. Says it can record data or video disks. Notice this is an industrial branch of Pioneer, not consumer products.

    Notice that it's probably a consumer division of Pioneer which is running the commercial showing a dual CD/CD-R device for copying audio CDs. I don't see that device on their Web sites, although their CD-R recognition is apparent in this Pioneer article about consumer CD-R uses.

  4. Re:Here's a link by SEWilco · · Score: 1 · on Pioneer to sell first recordable DVD decks
    Try this link to Pioneer DVD-Recordable. Says it can record data or video disks. Notice this is an industrial branch of Pioneer, not consumer products.

    Notice that it's probably a consumer division of Pioneer which is running the commercial showing a dual CD/CD-R device for copying audio CDs. I don't see that device on their Web sites, although their CD-R recognition is apparent in this Pioneer article about consumer CD-R uses.

  5. Super-Duper remote control by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Do-It-All Remote?
    The Perfect remote:

    I'm not sure if it's available separately or not, but Pioneer has a remote control (for their VSX-29TX receiver) that sounds perfect.

    There's a little flash demo at http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/features/9907-El ite_Remote4.asp

    and the page that describes it more fully is

    http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/features/9907-El ite_Remote1.asp

    Maybe if enough people ask, they'll sell it separately.

  6. Super-Duper remote control by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Do-It-All Remote?
    The Perfect remote:

    I'm not sure if it's available separately or not, but Pioneer has a remote control (for their VSX-29TX receiver) that sounds perfect.

    There's a little flash demo at http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/features/9907-El ite_Remote4.asp

    and the page that describes it more fully is

    http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/features/9907-El ite_Remote1.asp

    Maybe if enough people ask, they'll sell it separately.

  7. pixel size? by synaptic · · Score: 3 · on 50" Flat Screens from Pioneer

    Information About Dot Pitch
    http://www.csf.org.uk/csf/dot-pitch/ dotpit.htm

    Monitor Specs
    http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/ home/pdphd.htm

    The page says the pixel (or dot) pitch is:

    0.858 x 0.808 mm

    So the pixels are what, three times bigger than a normal .28 dp monitor?

  8. Re:1280x1024?? by trb · · Score: 2 · on 50" Flat Screens from Pioneer
    It's either 1280x768 (16:9) or 1024x768 (4:3), see the Pioneer web site. As for a 1600x200 21" computer monitor being better or worse, note that there is a big difference between TV monitors and computer monitors. The phosphors are formulated with different goals in mind. You sit 18 inches (.5 meters) away from your computer screen all day. You sit 10 feet (3 meters) away from your TV. If your computer screen was as bright as your TV screen, your eyes would be fried in short order. TV's are 60 Hz (or 50) interlaced. Computer screens are typically 60 Hz or more, non-interlaced - this all affects the amount of flicker. On your computer, you are looking mostly at stationary text and images. In the olden days (before windows), there used to be lots of text scrolling, and long persistence phosphors would leave trails. This would be a problem with lots of motion as in modern games.

    Plasma monitors can't be compared head to head with CRTs based simply on resolution, there are lots of other variables.