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Dan P.

Dan P.

Joined on 07/23/06

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Most Favorable Review

Great Indoor Antenna!

Antennas Direct DB2 Multi-Directional HDTV Antenna
Antennas Direct DB2 Multi-Directional HDTV Antenna

Pros: I saw that this outdoor antenna was actually rated best indoor antenna so I bought it. Two other antennas I bought were having trouble receiving Boston-area HDTV stations. Whenever it was windy, the stations would blink out. This non-amplified antenna beat out RCA and Jensen amplified antennas easily. This antenna is also very light. I have it hanging with a wire from a curtain rod, which gives it some additional height. It's even pulling in stations from New Bedford!

Cons: The assembly sheet had me guessing about how to put the two pieces together. The product photo was fuzzy and the text was unclear. With some trial and effort, and lining up the holes with the provided screws, it was easy to screw together.

Overall Review: A lot of people are going to be angry on Feb. 18, 2009 when the FCC cuts off analog TV broadcasting. The digital channels are all in the UHF band, which is plagued with reception problems. Analog channels that were viewable and antennas that worked fine won't cut it in the digital age. I live only 6 miles from the Boston antenna farm in Needham, and windy days can make the digital signal unwatchable. This antenna really helps, and I may try the DB4 which doubles the elements and size of the product.

Most Critical Review

Imation now makes TDK and Memorex

TDK 4.7GB 16X DVD+R 100 Packs Spindle Discs Model 48521
TDK 4.7GB 16X DVD+R 100 Packs Spindle Discs Model 48521

Pros: Good price. You can sign up with New Egg to get an e-mail to let you know when the price drops or it's being offered for free shipping.

Cons: Thanks to some of the previous posts, I checked Google and found that Imation bought both the TDK and Memorex brands last year. Imation also makes the IBM, Sun, HP and Exabyte DVD brands. The latest disks probably reflect a consolidation in manufacturing facilities. The recording side is using a darker dye than older TDKs, and the label side does not have the thick, smooth coating that resists scratching. I think anyone who relied on these disks in the past should treat these disks as if they were a new brand. I have been using TDK disks for 10 years, and I'm disappointed with the change.

Overall Review: I too am having trouble using these disks with a NEC 16x burner. At first, I couldn't burn any of these disks at all. I installed the most recent update and I can now burn these disks, but it will reject about a third of them, although I can feed the rejected ones in later, and it'll burn to them. But I'm getting circular light and dark stripes on some of the burns instead of a consistant band. I'm able to copy the data back off of these disks, but I didn't have this trouble with the old TDK disks. The bottom line is that these are Imation disks now, not TDK disks.

Don't Buy - Move Along

HP v125w 64GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive P-FD64GHP125-GE
HP v125w 64GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive P-FD64GHP125-GE

Pros: It's small 64 gb size

Cons: Seems to be connecting at USB 1.0 speed Slow as molasses

Overall Review: I've got a lot of USB drives and I've never encountered one so slow. I can usually transfer data at a rate of 1gb per 2 mins. This one is taking 4-5 mins per gb. I just don't have the time to wait, especially if I'm copying 10 gb and it's taking 50 mins. I thought the HP branding would assure some sort of quality control. But it doesn't. Don't buy. Try another one.

What happened?

WD Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
WD Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Usually rock solid performance. I've bought at least a dozen of these.

Cons: I'm wondering if WD has stopped manufacturing these since the price has skyrocketed recently. I went to buy one and instead bought two of the 2tb FAEXs for the price of this 1tb drive.

Overall Review: I still have old XP computers and need to provide compatibility with these old systems. I like buying non-Advance Format 1tb drives particularly because 2tb is a lot of data to lose and copying 2tb disks take a long, long time. And I don't want to spend 20 minutes or more re-aligning the AF drives. Just wondering if they're going to be unavailable soon.

Not a boot drive

Western Digital WD Green WD20EARX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital WD Green WD20EARX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Cheap price. High Storage.

Cons: WD Green drives are NOT BOOT DRIVES! They're designed for media players or for storage. I don't know why there's so many reviews from people trying to use them as boot drives. They're not boot drives. Also you can use them with Windows XP if you put a jumper between pins 7-8.

Overall Review: About half of the WD Green drives I have have been dying after 6-24 months of use. I make sure I back up everything I put on Green drives. The cheaper price may not equate with better value because of the replacement costs and the time and effort to copy data to new drives.

Best inexpensive speaker

Creative Inspire T10 2.0 Desktop Speakers
Creative Inspire T10 2.0 Desktop Speakers

Pros: This is probably the best thirty-six dollar speaker you can find (yeah, I did buy it on sale). And they have a bit of weight to them, so they won't easily fall off your desk. Besides an earphone jack on the side, they also have an auxiliary input for an MP3 player.

Cons: As some people have said, the mid-range is a little weak, as with most 2-way speakers. If you use the equalizer built into Windows Media Player or WinAmp, you can get some good bass out of them and improve the mid-range.

Overall Review: Keep in mind the cost when you compare these to other speakers. If you're looking for the best speaker in this price range, then they're a no-brainer. Sure, my 15-year old Cambridge Soundworks 2.1 speakers blow them away, but they cost 5x as much.

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Excellent

Merchandise was exactly what I ordered. Order was a little late, but that was UPS's fault. They sent me several notifications that the package was held up somewhere in transit.

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