My monitor is a 6 year old 32" ProScan ...$ 800
6 y/o old Denon AVR 5600 receiver...$ 2800
4 Polk LS90 floor standing speakers....$ 800 each
Polk CS 350LS Center speaker...$ 400
Boston Acoustic THX sub....$ 1200
Mitsubishi HSU 760 SVHS...$600
Sony SACD/DVD...$ 300
Dish Network's PVR 501 and 7100 Dishplayer satellite receivers...around $ 500.
Keep in mind that I paid about 50% of these prices by collecting "points" and purchasing through salesman accomodation programs and that most were aquired 6 years ago. The price of DD receivers have plummeted since then. Though Denon's flagship AVR 5803 is $4300 their AVR 3803 is fantastic at $1300.
For movies you can spend 1/4th of what I did and get virtually the same impact.
The higher priced Denons (and certainly the Adcoms and other fine separates that A Navy Vet mentioned) have massive Torodial (sp?) power supplies, large capacitors, expensive D/A converters etc. that do very little in distinguishing between a Glock and a Colt, but will show the difference between a Steinway and a Bosendorfer.
Can anyone let us ignorant masses know how to actually use this LCD screen technology to create a HDTV system?
This got my interest, but looking at the websites provided, they have told me nothing.
First question, even if I have a LCD screen with an over-head projector, how do I get a HDTV receiver to display on the LCD screen? Is this something I plug into my computer?