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Steve H.

Steve H.

Joined on 05/18/06

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Most Favorable Review

love it

Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1850 MC-Kit FM radio and MCE remote PCI-E x1
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1850 MC-Kit FM radio and MCE remote PCI-E x1

Pros: having this in one of the pci-e slots is great (haven't had a use for those 1 4 and 8x slots yet!). Vista Media Center works great with it. All the stations look great, have very fast channel changing. S-video and audio in, great for running my wii through the system (my pc serves as my tv, movie, game center through a projector), however it took a bit of searching to find the right program that would allow the s-video to just play through instead of being 5 seconds behind for live-tv pausing.. good stuff.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I endured the 'tuner not found' message while trying to set this up in vista mce.. not the card's fault, but after 6 hours of google-ing, I finally found this.. give it a go if you get that blasted message: 1. Press Start+R buttons on keyboard. 2. Type "services.msc" without quotes in box. 3. Scroll down to Windows Media Center services (should be 4 or 5 of them). 4. Make sure they are all set on "Automatic" and enable all of them. These services have to be enabled in order for WMC to work properly.

Most Critical Review

RMA time :(

Transcend Laptop Memory
Transcend Laptop Memory

Pros: Nada

Cons: Ordered two sticks and got two dead sticks. The plastic packaging was even broken and unpromising!

12/19/2008

Good buy.

SAMSUNG EcoGreen F2 HD154UI 1.5TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
SAMSUNG EcoGreen F2 HD154UI 1.5TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Bought two of these to replace eight smaller drives. Both arrived healthy and happy. You should buy these en masse. It's amazing how much space even 1.36TB is :)

Cons: None at this time.

Overall Review: Sidebar: Dear Newegg/FedEx, 2 day shipping does not equal 4 day shipping. If I pay for 2 day, I expect 2 day. Should have been in my hands midday Wednesday, instead it sat around and arrived after dark on Thursday. Lamesauce.

feeeeeels like the first time, like the very first time

Optoma HD65 1280 x 720 DLP Home Theater Projector 1600 Lumens 4000:1
Optoma HD65 1280 x 720 DLP Home Theater Projector 1600 Lumens 4000:1

Pros: I literally cannot believe how fabulous this picture looks! This projector just replaced my long used Sony VPL-PX1... the bulb in that retired one lasted well over 4000 hours and is still going, but I had to jack up the colors to get anything barely acceptable anymore. This HD65, however, blows me away. So bright even in a fully lit living room! The depth and clarity of colors, contrast, and brightness are enough to fool my eyes into seeing 3d depth in my 100" wall screen. I cannot believe how small this pj is compared to my prior VPL-PX1- It's just soooo tiny and so powerful! The digital keystone is so handy, I have this mounted on a shelf behind the the couch and had to put a book and a few cd cases under the back of the projector to get it to aim down and fill my screen correctly (with the help of keystone to fix my new weird angle). The price for all of this is just stunning too.

Cons: So far (only 5 hours in right now), none.

Overall Review: This has been the most aggravating shipping experience with newegg ever- I simply fail to grasp why my package moved at geriatric-on-a-walker speed and then stood still in California for days and days and days. Then when it finally arrived today, the newegg box was crushed to bits because it was not packed or taped properly! However, the smaller Optoma product box inside of that was very stout and not damaged at all. I personally would have ordered from a certain online store named after a river and would have had this in hand in about 2 days, for free shipping.. but they didn't have any in stock and I wanted this NOW :P ah well. That shouldn't reflect poorly on this item, of course.

10/13/2009

Wow

ASUS VK266H Black 25.5" HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor w/ Built in Speakers 300 cd/m2 1000:1 (ASCR 20000:1 ) w/ Component and SPDIF out Connector
ASUS VK266H Black 25.5" HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor w/ Built in Speakers 300 cd/m2 1000:1 (ASCR 20000:1 ) w/ Component and SPDIF out Connector

Pros: There are SO many 'thats what she said' jokes to go with this monitor. It's got an amazing amount of real estate for the dollars spent! I'm literally stunned at the size difference, coming up from a 22" display. Colors are very good, response is very good. Everything is very good. Very little tweaking was necessary post install.

Cons: The little plastic covering that protects/advertises the swivel webcam nearly fell off when I removed the cellophane shipping plastic from it. Managed to get that off without pulling the whole thing off tho. A dab of superglue will address the problem for good (but really, do we have to put glue on expensive things??). I can't seem to figure out how to access the camera WITHOUT using the stupid included LifeFrame software.. Proprietary software bums me out. I'm trying to figure out how to let sites like a Facebook have access to the asus web cam like any other web cam would just work.

Overall Review: First ever failure on Newegg shipping (for me)! Paid 2day on a Tuesday, didn't receive till following Monday, boooo. Ah well- no harm done.

B-R-illiant

SABRENT EC-525K Aluminum 5.25" Black IDE USB 2.0 External Enclosure
SABRENT EC-525K Aluminum 5.25" Black IDE USB 2.0 External Enclosure

Pros: This case is a charmer. I've been living without a dvd burner for months since having filled every available inch in my tower with hard drives :P Slap the drive in, slide the case cover on and bolt'er up.. it worked without drivers in Vista just fine.

Cons: The rear red LED is waaay bright and the fan is loud and vibrates my desk somethin fierce! But since it has a nice power switch on the back, I just kill it when not in use, so not a big deal at all.

Overall Review: Once again, fastest shipping in the world.