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Name a good charcoal grill. It really isn't needed, because of the broilers and everything else, but I wanted one to add to the BBQ Guy feel of the outdoors. 🙂
 


<< Dolby Digital EX needs 2 centers >>



Actually, that is incorrect. In Dolby EX, the rear center channel is matrixed, meaning that it will extract information from the rear surrounds to create a phantom channel. Dolby EX is still a 5.1 discrete technology; in fact, theaters with Dolby Digital systems can easily upgrade to EX by adding the Dolby EX adapter to their decoding equipment (and you can even do this at home without buying a new receiver/preamp if you have preouts for rear speakers; just run the rear preouts to an old Pro Logic decoder in Dolby-3 mode). Right now as it stands, a discrete version of EX does not exist.

DTS-ES Discrete on the other hand actually does make use of a rear center speaker, because there's actually a discrete 6th channel encoded in the surround mix. Movies like Gladiator have ES Discrete soundmixes. A "matrix" variety of ES also exists, which behaves similar to Dolby EX.
 


<< BTW--why IDE hard drives? >>


Those aren't ide hard drives. They are solid state scsi drives in a regular form factor.
The fastest hard drives made. Notice the seek times are measured in nanoseconds not milliseconds.

And if I remember correctly, that sustained transfer rate is for random read and writes.
Even if that is just sequential, it still saturates any scsi bus that's available.

The other pluses are- no noise and can operate under extreme conditions without failing.
These are mostly used in high end applications like the space shuttle.
I believe that they are $6500 a piece if I remember right.
But for some reason I remember a 1 in front of that 6.

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Sorry, I do see a WD ide in there for set up.
Good question. Why?


 
Dug - just to hold some misc stuff for setup and installation.. Like patches, drivers, etc. for installing OSes on the SSDs. And I don't think any motherboards boot up without a hard drive plugged into it.
 


<< And I don't think any motherboards boot up without a hard drive plugged into it. >>


You should be able to boot with no problem.
If there was a problem I would still get a BiTMICRO ide solid state hard drive to replace the Western Digital.
Sense were not talking about money here, plus it would be faster and no noise.
 
I'd love to see a picture of setup.
Anybody got some Photoshop experience to put this thing together. 🙂
 
Can somebody tell me if I've got everything connected properly? The thing in question is this - the sound signal goes to the surround decoder first, right?
 
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