Good News - Bad News

The good: My sis and I went to Anderson (the closest thing we have to a "big city" in this part of SC :p ) to go car-shopping (or car-looking, as I couldn't buy anything but thought I'd look around), and after that we went to Best Buy, where "Item" was being sold at $20

So of course I bought it

The bad: My TV cannot handle the 5.1 audio

It's the same problem I had with "511" back about a year or two ago. But back then, I didn't have the computer (which seems to handle it just fine) so I'm gonna test it and pray that it works out.

Also, I think I may have found a decent small car for the incredibly-hard-to-find parking spaces in Clemson. But that's not NO-related

Best Buy in South Carolina??? Lucky fooker. My BB did not have it.

The truly bad news is that the 5.1 audio is dreadful at best. Since the music was not originally produced for 5.1, you're hearing a pseudo surround mix. It's a bit of reverb in the rear channels along with some creative eq'ing for the front, left, and right channels. In order to create a specific 5.1 mix, it would have taken the going back in to the original multitracks(not the masters) for each song, creating a surround mix and then re-syncing to the video.

The good news is that you can still enjoy the videos in stereo.

Works just fine on the computer

Which means I don't have to return it and demand my money back.......

Would've been nice to get twenty bucks back...oh well, works on the computer. That's all that matters

I'm happy with it.

I just bought a HD Satalite dish so I'm looking forword to seeing TV shows & sports in 5.1 sound and widescreen!