the HD Guy

Remember that 30 seconds skip button on your ReplayTV? wasn’t that great?

Well you can easily program that feature on your DCT-6412 by doing the following:
1. Press the “Cable” button once on your remote
2. Press and Hold the “Setup” button until the “Cable” buttons blinks twice
3. Enter the code 994 (the “Cable” button will blink twice)
4. Press the “Setup” button once
5. Enter the code 00173
5. Press the button that you want to use to skip 30 seconds feature

Enjoy!

Thinking about getting a new TV to watch High Definition shows? Not quite sure if you need a Plasma, an LCD or a RPTV?
If you are ready to jump in the LCD world, the Samsung LCD 32″ Wide HDTV is a very good choice.

With its nicely designed 32″ wide LCD display, its improved picture quality thanks to the Samsung DNIe technology, its easy to use interface and the multiple input available (including HDMI), this LCD is a very good choice.

This LCD has a good resolution of 1266x768 allowing a very good display of HDTV signal, and Picture In Picture (PIP) feature to watch two programs at the same time.

On the bad side, the PIP feature doesn’t work with all the inputs available.

Price in store is around $1700 at this time.

Available inputs: 1 HDMI, 2 Components, 1 VGA, 1 NTSC tuner, 1 S-video, 2 composites, 2 audio stereo.
Contrast: 3000:1

LN-R328W on the Samsung web site

Have you ever found yourself stuck to your TV watching a weird guy playing with very dangerous snakes, animals playing in the wild or even some folks building yet another chopper while being late?
If you had, chances are you have already tasted the wonders of HDTV.

Take my word for it: get a Motorola 6412 DVR and the right service, and you will never watch TV the same way any more. Mix the quality of HDTV videos, dolby digital audio and the power of a dual tuner DVR and your TV life will never be the same.

Of course, this box is no ReplayTV full of geeky features, but you gate the basic features you expect from a DVR, with the high quality of HDTV, and a dual tuner allowing you to watch a HD channel while recording another one! And let’s not forget the HDMI/DVI output connection…

Ethernet and SATA connection at the back of the unit really make you wonder what this unit will be able to do in the future.

On the downside, the 6412 phase 3 only has 120GB (space fills fast with HD signal), a few bugs and no commercial skip (That’s where you really miss your ReplayTV)…

And if you like hacking everything, it is possible to program a 30 seconds skip button, and to extract videos over the firewire connection!