I'm installing a 5.1 surround system in my living room, and in researching speaker wire I came across this very useful article about what kind of wire to buy, so I thought I'd share: [link]
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Jon B. - Aug 17, 2007 7:07:26 am PDT #2418 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Sean K - Aug 17, 2007 8:10:44 am PDT #2419 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I came across this very useful article about what kind of wire to buy, so I thought I'd share: [link]
Heh. I've heard similar debunking before.
What's amusing me is the thought that I might be best off replacing the wires that came with my surround system with zip line.
NoiseDesign - Aug 17, 2007 8:14:10 am PDT #2420 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
When we strike Halloween there just might be a little bit of that available Sean.
Jon B. - Aug 17, 2007 8:32:48 am PDT #2421 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I'm tempted to change my tagline to "Look upon my expensive wires ye mighty and despair."
Sean K - Aug 17, 2007 8:46:13 am PDT #2422 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
When we strike Halloween there just might be a little bit of that available Sean.
I think I have some in my trunk from last Halloween. Not necessarily enough to run my new surround system, but some.
Actually, my main problem with using 16 gauge zip line is having thick black wires running all over my walls. Of course, since it's an aparment, and I don't really want to run my speaker wire behind the walls anyway, I'd be stuck with visible wires no matter what I did.
Sean K - Aug 17, 2007 8:46:37 am PDT #2423 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm tempted to change my tagline to "Look upon my expensive wires ye mighty and despair."
I think you should, Jon. It's an awesome tag line.
Jon B. - Aug 17, 2007 10:06:56 am PDT #2424 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Alrighty then!
omnis_audis - Aug 17, 2007 3:32:53 pm PDT #2425 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Sean, you can get white lamp chord too. IJS.
vw bug - Aug 18, 2007 1:12:03 pm PDT #2426 of 25496
Mostly lurking...
Is there an easy/free way to resave digital video files at a lower quality. I'm trying to put a video on youtube, taken from my brother's camera, and it's a little too big. Ideas? I suck at this stuff, and I'm trying to help my brother figure it out before I leave.
Juliebird - Aug 18, 2007 1:18:12 pm PDT #2427 of 25496
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Windows XP and Vista both come standard with Windows Movie Maker, and I'll assume that Macs have some basic video editor as well.
You can try opening the video file up in the editor and simply publish/render it, and that should automatically compress it some.
WMM also has an "import from video camera function".